“I joked that if we started our sites a year earlier we’d be Mark Cuban right now.” If you liked the New York Times story about the indispensable Sports Reference network of sites, here’s an even better one, from a year ago, with much more meat on its bones, from Noah Frank of WTOP. It’s worth your time.

NHL.com's new stats page is live, complete with "enhanced stats."

Over at FiveThirtyEight, Reuben Fischer-Baum has put together an interactive graph of every NFL team's cumulative point differential over its history. (The grabbed image above is not interactive. Stop trying to interact with it.)

Tyler Dellow offers up a rare but well-deserved fisking of Steve Simmons's latest anti-stats garbage pile. Read it not just to laugh at Simmons, but for useful answers to dumb questions from the luddites in your life.