Deserve’s got nothing to do with it

What a rotten way to end a game

This is pretty much the first time real players with games under his belt have been dealt between the Celtics and Sixers. I’m astonished www.basketball-reference.com/friv/trades....

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Trades between NBA Franchises

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if Argentina had drawn a typical path through the knockouts for a #1 seed, they would have a 64% chance of making the quarters according to my model with their actual path, those odds shoot up to 88% absolutely incredible good fortune with the draw www.expectinggoals.com/p/even-more-...

Carolina baseball run differentials against top 50 RPI opponents and ACC baseball standings through May 7 games #Rstats #dataviz

When I was a kid I was told by Republican relatives Ted Turner was a rich psycho (true) who bought “half of Wyoming” for himself. They neglected to mention he helped saved bison from extinction and became our nation’s most prominent environmentalist

What to make of an expansion sought by few except a strange alliance of rapacious elite conferences and long disadvantaged mid-majors. Well, and me. johngasaway.substack.com/p/one-whinin...

One whining moment

Costs and benefits of an unpopular tournament expansion

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Wrote up some 2026 bracket thoughts in an age where it seems we're getting _better_ at predicting everything open.substack.com/pub/blessyou... #dataviz #marchmadness

179: 2.6 Billion to One

2026 bracket thoughts.

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Surfacing the the latest bracketmatrix.com projections with team logos as of today (March 11 around noon EDT) Groups teams by seed line and lists the team under _any_ seed line projection Curious to see how this changes by the end of this week #rstats #dataviz

Sharing a bunch of #dataviz I've put together lately Also, wrote about Daylight Saving time and how college teams try to control time: blessyourchart.substack.com/p/176-spring... #Rstats

Every visualization sheds light on the chart designer’s priorities about what to include and what to omit. I wrote a bit about the choices I made with this one here: bcftoys.com/whiteboard/p...

possession flow — BCF Toys

Building on the drive summary plot design introduced a few weeks ago and inspired by last week’s look into historic handmade possession diagrams , this week I’m pulling a few elements together ...

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Brian Fremeau@bcfremeau.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Building on some #dataviz ideas I've been kicking around the last few weeks, I pulled a few elements together into an overall game possession and drive summary visualization template: bcftoys.com/whiteboard/p... #Indiana #Miami #CFP

Comparing ACC men's basketball regular season schedules from ~20 years ago to today #datviz #Rstats

I’ve been working on better ways to visualize college football game data for as long as I’ve been collecting it. Let's punch up a basic drive summary table with some graphic elements: bcftoys.com/whiteboard/d...

Carolina 71, Duke 68

Visualizing the win streaks in the Carolina-Duke rivalry since 1950 #dataviz #Rstats

A look at the ranking for basketball teams changes over time depending on which rating system you use wrote about this more and tried to make a meteorology comparison: blessyourchart.substack.com/p/171-symmet... #dataviz #Rstats

There are a lot of reasons to like sports, but the thing that draws me in is the opportunity to watch Things Not Go The Way They Are Supposed To. It’s the thing that ties together underdog stories and impossible endings and dominant runs by superhuman athletes, this destruction of sensibility.

Saw Marty Supreme last weekend, and was inspired to do a comp of serving advantage across multiple sports. Tennis 🎾: it's an advantage to serve Volleyball 🏐: it's a disadvantage to serve Table Tennis 🏓: nearly 50/50, based on what limited data I was able to find

Democrat leaders looking for "creative ideas" to fight ICE, I've got a crazy one called "go outside to where the shit is actually happening."

Carolina's point differential by 5 minute segment of game time against kenpom tier A and B opponents

Gasaway on college hoops is a must read, this really good

John Gasaway@johngasaway.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This staunch popularist has a beef with one of basketball's four factors. After 20-plus years it's still invisible to the casual fan. Let's try points per shot instead. It's equally accurate and maybe a wider population will use it. johngasaway.substack.com/p/extend-acc...

A few charts to recap the CFP Semifinals and tracking the average margin of victory by round #Rstats

Put together a static site to surface WAB (Wins-above-bubble) data for the men’s college hoops season wabwatch.com

Example of college football's circle of parity for 2025 season

College football double-digit favorites that have lost outright this season so far

Been messing around with trying to visualize college football possessions/drives in a different format Here are two examples from the last two Penn State games using a bowling style scorecard by frame and a baseball style line score #Rstats

added a couple features to cfb-graphs dot com: 1) Receiver stats page. Very raw, will continue to tweak and improve. 2) stacked mobile tables so you can actually read stat previews on your phone (will continue to work on design, but needed to start with legibility

Added an OT games filter to the results page Week 5 featured six OT games, up to 15 total on the season cfbtxt.com/results/

Week 4 features 5 games between the Sun Belt and CUSA, plus 5 Big Ten conference matchups Added a conference matchups table to cfbtxt dot com cfbtxt.com/conferences/

First few weeks of college football featured only 5 conference games, there are 16 conference games on the slate in Week 3 A look at scheduling patterns by game type over the course of the season #Rstats #collegefootball