BGSU grad here. Hopefully this will be a more watchable game than the last time we played Miami on national TV, where it was so foggy that you couldn't even see what was happening on the field

At least use the bagel setting

I watched a family friend run the Chicago Marathon back when I was a kid. I have no memories of it besides standing at the finish line and watching runner after runner vomiting. For hours.

I think that one of the reasons we believe the "poor people being better at basketball" thing is that, while it doesn't seem to be true, it's more true than in other sports. Sports like football and hockey require a lot of expensive gear that a child will outgrow many times as they get older and develop, which low…

That's a good point, but that isn't always the case. By the time they've grown into potential prodigies where they're being recruited by elite prep schools, they've already had years of coaching. It's not like they have parents who can afford to hand over thousands of dollars to a private coach that can develop them…

I would expect that it would also have to do with coaching and opportunity in part. Players coming from low income backgrounds are likely to be stuck in very financially challenged schools, where they will not have access to top flight coaching and training facilities. Players coming from impoverished backgrounds…

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DYAR, as I understand it, is supposed to be a measure of how one specific player independently affects his team, so theoretically it shouldn't take that into account (although there are lots of subtle ways it surely affected the offense that are impossible to quantify). Even so, that's a startling drop, from great to…

Okay, that makes more sense then. But yes, one of the big problems would be compensating for the many different kinds of defenses and the relative fluidity of positions. In most systems, a wide receiver is a wide receiver is a wide receiver. On defense, an outside linebacker can have wildly different…

I can actually understand where he's coming from with the slavery analogy. Yes, he isn't being forced to do this against his will and he isn't being bought and sold and separated from his loved ones, but I don't think that's what he meant by making the comparison. One of the things he specifically mentioned was the…

Yeah, there's that, and just how to compare them across positions as well. A low grade by a cornerback in press coverage is probably a lot more damaging to his team's defense than a comparable grade by a 3 technique DT, as it could mean the difference between getting burned for an 80 yard touchdown versus just being…

Love these visualizations. I would love to see one of a team's defense too (probably would have to use PFF grades though, and those aren't always comparable across positions). Edit: Just saw the thing about not doing defense. Understandable. Maybe advanced stats will get there one day

I bet you love Wisconsin basketball

Maybe they're going off of Washington's first half performance against the Broncos last week and assuming they'll keep it close? The line opening as a pick em was weird though

It really seems like Kansas City should be more than a 3 point favorite over the Bills. They probably aren't as good as their record suggests, but I would take that defense against either Thad Lewis or Jeff Tuel +3 any day

I have some of those in my office candy bowl, not a soul has touched them

There was nothing more disappointing in life than opening your bag and watching someone, who was presumably very nice otherwise, drop a Bit O Honey in. How can a person make such a crucial mistake in their candy selection?

I think the real takeaway here is to never exercise ever again and begin life as a hermit

I prefer my turnovers telegraphed

but since half-ish of the teams will sell out every night of the week I'm guessing it's not a concern for the league