Current Cornell student. Incoming engineer at GM, starting in the rotational program in July. Interesting read to see how some others in the (not so distant) past have made their way. Personally made it by grinding through my bachelor’s and masters in 4, along with a VERY weird M.Eng. project.

That’s not a good way to determine the average point difference in reference to closeness of games. If one did the math for each game, the games were decided by: 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, and 6 points, respectively. Still close games but not the “less than two points” you claim.

To expand it further while keeping the original ideas put forth in the article: why not put the strips side by side under the center of the car, that way you can get the same data but not be driving on rumble strips?

One major factor that is often not mentioned is ricocheted balls as well. Personally, I was at a Yankee game a few years back, had a mitt and playing complete attention, but a line drive ricocheted off a seat about 20 feet and hit me, quite hard I might add, in the thigh.

Juju’s hit was inherently dirty, so dirty they actually managed to call a penalty on him...