Jayson Werth Has Me Feeling Nostalgic For The Sabermetric Wars
After 15 seasons as a big leaguer, Jayson Werth is out of baseball this year, which has given the 39-year-old an…
Alex Trebek Hilariously Shits On Jeopardy! Contestant And Her Whole Crew For No Reason
Man, Trebek really looked at her, took a breath, then dropped the hammer.
Brook Lopez's Star Wars Experience Was Kind Of A Bummer
A lot of the fun in going to see a world attention-grabbing movie on opening night is getting swept up in the pomp. If…
And Now, The Only Comic-Con Story You'll Ever Need
It’s the early 2000s, and I’m working at a bar across the street from the convention center where Comic-Con is held. At…
The Next Three Weeks Of Game Of Thrones Recaps, Spoiled
Over the weekend, the first four episodes of Game of Thrones leaked onto torrent sites. In one day, they were…
Nerds On Teen Jeopardy Save Sports Category For Last
"Pro Sports Teams" was a category on Teen Jeopardy this evening and none of the contestants wanted anything to do with…
A Complete Breakdown Of The Year In Touchdown Celebrations
Geoff Foster of the Wall Street Journal has done the lord's work. He went back and watched every touchdown celebration…
How Statistically Unlikely Was The Patriots Comeback? (Spoiler: Very)
How unlikely was Tom Brady's game-winning pass to Kenbrell Thompkins? Unlikely enough to make this Win Probability chart
The Liter Bowl: The First NCAA Football Game To Use The Metric System
On September 17, 1977, Carleton College and St. Olaf College played the Liter Bowl, the first NCAA-sanctioned game to…
Everybody Is A Nerd, According To David Price [UPDATE]
David Price had a rough outing yesterday, giving up seven runs in seven innings and losing Game 2 to the Red Sox. He…
Kill #killthewin: The Fight Over Stats In Baseball Has Gotten Stupid
Television is the worst. Look at what's happened to the MLB Network's house numbers guy, Brian Kenny, who's spent the…
What I Learned From A Year Of Watching SportsCenter
Thirty-three years and more than 50,000 episodes on, SportsCenter is less a television show or a convenient way to…
Measuring The Ridiculous Physics Of Disney's Hercules
Two years ago, our friends at the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective applied their usual rigorous statistical scrutiny …
You're all right, Rex Ryan:
Ryan Zimmerman Thinks You Are All A Bunch Of Nerds
From Thomas Boswell's column in today's Washington Post:
Mariners Manager Says Sabermetrics Made Dustin Ackley Suck
The Seattle Mariners optioned once-promising second baseman Dustin Ackley to Triple A yesterday because Ackley has been…
Here's A Dude Doing Homework At The Nats Game
Goddammit, guy.
Here's How Playing Basketball Looks Through Google Glass
Here's Noble Ackerson, a so-called "Glass Explorer," trying out his Google Glass in a gym session yesterday. The view…
We Need To Talk About The Harvard Band
This picture is art. I can't stop looking at it. It almost made me happy for Harvard, in some demented, twisted…
“Are You A Nerd?” And Other Questions We Asked Our Fellow Nerds At The Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
Last weekend, I went to the sixth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. Attendance has gone up every year, and…