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Deadspin Police-Shooting Database Update: We're Still Going
Last Wednesday, we launched an impossibly ambitious project: cataloguing every police-involved shooting in America over the last three years. After one week, we're further along than we could have imagined. ...
Why Do Tennis Players Grunt? Because It Works
Monica Seles gets the blame—at 93 decibels, her screams on the court were about as loud as a motorcycle, and started the run on grunting in tennis. It was frowned upon at first, but everyone's climbed on board—Djokovic, Nadal, Sharapova, Serena, and Venus, they all get their shriek on. A generatio...
How Well Does Sports Science Prevent Injuries?
Hang around sports stat nerds long enough, and you'll hear one of them spew out, "Injuries are the new Moneyball," or something near enough to carry the message. Point is, injuries are bad for business, and teams are increasingly throwing "sports science" at the problem. So how's it working so far? ...
This Year's NFL Schedule, Visualized
Here's a neat little interactive by Chris Polis, showing every game in the NFL season, and how each team connects to the others, by week and by team. ...
Can You Predict If Your Kid Will Throw Left-Handed?
With the Little League World Series winding down to the final few teams, there's a question that dances across the minds of many overzealous future dads: Is there anything you can do to increase the chances your kid will be left-handed, and therefore more likely to have a shot at Williamsport? ...
We're Compiling Every Police-Involved Shooting In America. Help Us.
The United States has no database of police shootings. There is no standardized process by which officers log when they've discharged their weapons and why. There is no central infrastructure for handling that information and making it public. Researchers, confronted with the reality that there ...
Which NBA Teams Have The Hardest And Easiest Schedules?
Yesterday, the NBA released its schedule, and everyone rushed to talk about when the big games are happening (Christmas) and where (Miami). But who got the easiest rides, and who got screwed? ...
How To Fix The Baseball Hall Of Fame Elections
Admission into the Baseball Hall of Fame has been called baseball's highest honor. Lately, it's also been baseball's most controversial....
American Police Militarization, Visualized
The New York Times ran a piece back in June about the rapid militarization of America's police departments through the Congress-backed military-transfer program, which began in the 90s, and has ballooned since 2006. Above is a graphic showing the raw numbers for select military items that have found...
Chris Davis Is A New Breed Of Mendoza Line Hitter
Hitters at the Mendoza Line are almost definitionally not very good, and players with poor averages usually don't hit a lot of home runs. You have to hit the ball to hit it out of the yard, after all. Lately, though, there have been more exceptions to those rules than ever before. ...
You Know If A Quarterback Can Be Great After Just Two Years
If a quarterback has a chance to be a star, chances are it will become apparent within two seasons. Chase Stuart of Football Perspective looked at how long it took star quarterbacks to become great, examining the top 42 quarterbacks since the merger and compared how each quarterback performed (measu...
Chart: Which MLB Teams Have The Best And Worst Benches?
The chart above from August Fagerstrom of FanGraphs shows which teams this season have had the most and least productive benches. ...
PGA Golfers Play Better When Paired With The Best Players
Are the top golfers in the world affected by the quality of their company? Do they lift their performance when they're paired with great players? You wouldn't immediately think so. After all, no golfer reaches the highest levels of the profession without having learned how to block out distraction...
Valar Morghulis: A Statistical Guide To Deaths In <em>Game Of Thrones</em>
The famously grisly mortality rates of Game of Thrones are plenty fascinating enough on their own, and have infuriated viewers and readers alike for years now. It's a big part of the charm. But it's almost equally compelling from a global health perspective: Precisely how bloody is this universe? ...
Which NFL Rushing Attacks Do The Most With The Least?
Two years ago, sixth-rounder Alfred Morris held onto his roster spot with a strong preseason and went on to break the Redskins single-season rushing yards record. While steals like Morris are rare, they're also instructive. Some teams invest far fewer resources in their rushing attacks without losin...
Animation: How NFL Players Have Gotten Bigger (And Fatter), Year By Year
We know that NFL players have gotten bigger, and that it's a relatively recent phenomenon. But this animated tool by Noah Veltman (GIF above) is the coolest way we've seen to watch how it happened over the years. ...
Which NFL Teams Do Fans <em>Not</em> Want To Watch In Person?
Going to an NFL game is an investment, just as much in time and misery as it is in cash. So who in god's name would go watch the Jaguars? Not many, it turns out. ...
Trout Vs. Kershaw, Round 1, Visualized
Tonight is the first time Mike Trout and Clayton Kershaw will face each other. ESPN Stats & Info has a nice breakdown of the matchup, full of telling details to watch for, like this: ...