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Is New Hampshire Really The Drunkest State In The Union?
The National Institute for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) has released its 2014 report on alcohol consumption in the United States, with figures for per capita alcohol consumption updated through 2012. Converting various boozes to pure ethanol volumes, the researchers estimated that the countr...
All 2,208 World Cup Goals, By Minute Scored
With kickoff on Thursday, The Economist has put together a neat chart showing when all 2,208 World Cup goals have been scored, by minute....
Study: Napoleon Complex Is Real; Shorter NBA Refs Call More Fouls
A new study in the Journal of Sports Economics finds that shorter NBA refs may call more fouls, in an excellent manifestation of the Napoleon Complex. Paul Gift and Ryan Rodenberg looked at 4,463 regular season games from 2008 to 2012, and—controlling for variables like race and experience*—found a ...
FiveThirtyEight has kicked off its search for America's best burrito. A selection committee—with the help of a Yelp-based "value over replacement burrito" metric—will pick the 64 contenders from over 65,000 establishments; burrito correspondent Anna Maria Barry-Jester will take it from there. [FiveT...
Which Hockey Leagues Have The Most Fights?
The NHL has a lot more fights than, say, the NFL, but how does it stack up against other levels of hockey competition? To find out, Simon Garnier of Graph Zoo pulled data from the (hilariously '90s) site dropyourgloves.com and put together a neat graphic on "fights per game" across almost 100 active...
NFL Not Into "Super Bowl L," Will Abandon Roman Numerals For One Year
The NFL has announced that the 2016 Super Bowl, the fiftieth Super Bowl, will be branded as "Super Bowl 50" instead of the extremely dumb-looking "Super Bowl L." This is the first time that the NFL will abandon gladiatorial, perpetually-confusing Roman numerals since they were first used for Super B...
Which Countries Get Carded The Most At The World Cup?
Quartz has crunched the numbers on World Cup penalties, counting all the yellow and red cards for every squad back to 1970. Slovenia comes in number one, racking up 20 cards in their six World Cup games (3.33 per game). Peru was the least penalized, with nine cards in 13 games (0.69 per game)....
ESPN has run the numbers on LeBron's popularity, finding that there are a lot of white haters. James is the favorite player of 9.7 percent of white fans—down from 14.8 percent pre-Decision—while his support from black fans (21 to 23.5 percent) and Hispanic fans (10.7 to 12.4 percent) has grown. [ES...
All 204 World Cup Shootout Attempts, In One Chart
With the tournament starting next week, the BBC has put together a neat little guide on "what makes the perfect World Cup shootout penalty." The graphic above—showing the location and result of all 204 World Cup shootout attempts—is just one of several neat visuals; go check them all out....
Watch Football Players Get Taller And Heavier Over 90 Years Of The NFL
NFL height/weight data has been visualized before, but a new animation by WYNC's Noah Veltman may be the snappiest version yet. Over on his site you can watch the size of NFL players steadily expand through the early '70s, stagnate, and then spike again—mostly in terms of weight—in the late '80s....
How Gotham City Got Mapped
It's tough to build a great fantasy world without a map—there's a reason why the Game of Thrones credits are basically a Google Earth flyover—and comic book worlds are no exception. While Batman's "Gotham City" has been around since 1940, it wasn't properly mapped until 1998's "No Man's Land" arc. O...
Miles and Lyle Thompson co-won the Tewaaraton Trophy last night, college lacrosse's equivalent of the Heisman (named in honor of the sport's Iroquois heritage). Raised on the Onondaga and Akwesasne-Mohawk reservations, the brothers are the first Native Americans to take home the award. [Lacrosse Mag...
How Did 50 Cent's Attempt Compare With Other Famous First Pitches?
Was 50 Cent's terrible first pitch the worst of all time? To find out, the Washington Post Wonkblog went to the tape on 30 notable first pitches, and plotted their location on the chart above....
Map: Do You Live Near More Bars, Or More Grocery Stores?
Over on Flowing Data, Nathan Yau has put together a new series of maps comparing whether bars or grocery stores are more common in different parts of the country. This is not new territory—Floating Sheep made the original bar/grocery map back in 2010—but there are some nice additions here. Specifica...
Have Spelling Bee "Winning Words" Always Been So Obscure?
Arvind Mahankali won the 2013 National Spelling Bee on "knaidel," a type of dumpling. The winning word the year prior was "guetapens," before that "cymotrichous," and before that "stromuhr." Have bee-winning words always been this insane, or is this a recent development? ...
What's Roy Hibbert's Impact On Defense?
Offensively, Roy Hibbert has been all over the place these playoffs. Well, "all over the place" isn't exactly right, he's paired a couple of good games with many terrible ones, adding his fourth zero-point outing in Monday's loss. But even at his offensive worst, it's important to remember that Hibb...
Here's A New Attempt At Gauging The Defensive Impact Of NBA Players
The defensive impact of individual NBA players is hard to measure, as it's so intertwined with their teammates' performance. Austin Clemens, undeterred, has taken an ambitious shot with his new Adjusted Impact by Court Location model, which attempts to parse out individual impacts on opponent shot s...