Jesus, did that guy ever have hair?

watching baseball @jonbois.bsky.social

Screenshot of kenpom.com top 40 teams. 38 are highlighted with seed notation having officially secured a position in the NCAA tournament.

It's a small thing but I love when kenpom updates and highlights the teams in the field.

We could turn the tankers into trucks if we had enough wheels.

Early entry for most dad thing anyone has done this year?

The Sabres' playoff odds have grown steadily since December Daily odds to make the 2025-26 NHL playoffs for the Buffalo Sabres, according to the Neil's Substack Elo forecast model

Need a notation on this @neilpaine.bsky.social chart indicating precisely when @stevengodfrey.bsky.social and @celebrityhottub.bsky.social recorded the pod that turned things around...

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It’s very slick, makes me want to try a college football version of this too!

FUN and TRICKY "blind resume" game. I went stone cold in the Hard category, then got hot down the Expert stretch.

One of the things that fascinates me about the ubiquity of The Book is that it's literally still an actual, physical book that needs to be toted and flipped through. I'm surprised it isn't a more high tech solution, or maybe there's a rule against that?

Here's the second article: bsky.app/profile/seth...

Really enjoyed this pair of articles on The Book and the evolving game theory that influences college football coach decision making.

This Is March (when I begin to pay attention to smart people and good visual explainers of a sport I give some real attention to only one month out of the year)

Pauses in mid-air, mind you

Scatterplot of available yards percentage by starting field position in FBS vs FBS games from 2007 to 2025

Scatterplot of drive success rate by starting field position in FBS vs FBS games from 2007 to 2025

Scatterplot of points per drive by starting field position in FBS vs FBS games from 2007 to 2025

Scatterplot of yards per play by starting field position in FBS vs FBS games from 2007 to 2025

Starting field position study based on 300k+ non-garbage offensive drives in FBS games since 2007

Scatterplot of available yards percentage by starting field position in FBS vs FBS games from 2007 to 2025

Scatterplot of drive success rate by starting field position in FBS vs FBS games from 2007 to 2025

Scatterplot of points per drive by starting field position in FBS vs FBS games from 2007 to 2025

Scatterplot of yards per play by starting field position in FBS vs FBS games from 2007 to 2025

Starting field position study based on 300k+ non-garbage offensive drives in FBS games since 2007

SPORTS DATA DORK QUESTION

I am looking for a website(s) where I can potentially scrape simple W-L records by season for a variety of smaller college sports (soccer, volleyball, lax, etc). no advanced stats, just wins and losses.

sports reference isn't an option. other ideas? Here's why I want 'em:

Thank you! For now it’s all made in Illustrator while I work out the framework and design elements.

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...

nash marks — BCF Toys There’s no time like the present to obsess over old school, hand-illustrated possession charts.

Inspired by the ancient texts! bcftoys.com/whiteboard/n...

Thanks!

Data visualization of the CFP National Championship game played on January 19, 2026 and won by Indiana over Miami by a final score of 27-21. The visualization elements include a primary chart of the flow of alternating possessions, highlighting scores by each team and key possession change events. Illustrated tables at the bottom of the chart provide more specific information about Indiana and Miami’s respective offensive drive results.

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

Dmytro Drahun of Team Ukraine competes in the Men's 50km Mass Start Classic on day 15.

Alex Fiva of Team Switzerland leads Erik Mobaerg of Team Sweden, Daniel Paulus of Team Czechia and Jared Schmidt of Team Canada in Men's Ski Cross Quarterfinals on day fifteen of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic games at Livigno Air Park on February 21, 2026 in Livigno, Italy.

Athletes compete in the Men's 4 x 7.5km Biathlon Relay on day eleven of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic games at Anterselva Biathlon Arena on February 17, 2026 in Antholz-Anterselva, Italy.

Abbey Willcox of Team Australia competes during Women's Aerials Qualification One on day twelve of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic games at Livigno Air Park on February 18, 2026 in Livigno, Italy.

How about one last thread of awesome Winter Olympics photos? All via Getty Images. Photogs will be ID'd in each post.

Top left: Alex Pantling
Top right: Cameron Spencer
Bottom left: Michael Steele
Botom right: Patrick Smith (wow)

A handwritten storyboard or script outline from Christopher Nolan's film "Inception." The image features handwritten text and diagrams, suggesting the film's complex plot involving a heist, an escape, and characters like Yusuf, Arthur, Eames, and Saito. The text includes notes about the heist, the escape, and various locations within the dream world, including Limbo.

Christopher Nolan's hand-drawn map of Inception

Chart titled "Showing How the Tide of Battle Ebbed and Flowed” with what appear to be abstract (?) geometric lines detailing the flow of game possessions; Stanford 10, California 10 (1892)

Chart titled “World’s Football Chart showing exact position and time of every movement” referring to time of day (not time of possession); Princeton 6, Yale 0 (1893)

Game illustration detailing only a few basic elements — possession, kicks, rushes, fumbles, and penalties; Minnesota 8, Nebraska 5 (1907)

Published in “Graphic Methods for Presenting Facts” by Willard C. Brinton in 1919, a game possession chart details the second half of the Harvard-Yale football game played in 1912

"Spectators often would like to have a picture of the various plays ... so that any confusion as to what actually did occur may be seen at a glance. It may be possible that standards for this type of chart will evolve in the future." - Willard C. Brinton, 1939 #dataviz

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nash marks — BCF Toys There’s no time like the present to obsess over old school, hand-illustrated possession charts.

There's no time like the present to obsess over old school, hand-illustrated possession charts: bcftoys.com/whiteboard/n...

nash marks — BCF Toys There’s no time like the present to obsess over old school, hand-illustrated possession charts.

There's no time like the present to obsess over old school, hand-illustrated possession charts: bcftoys.com/whiteboard/n...

These are all so cool. Each of them has its own style and notation conventions.

Okay this one is wild, as it appears to predict the Stanford Band play sequence 90 years before it happens.