Jesus fucking Christ. He threatened to shoot up a school less than a week after a school shooting and you’re acting like he’s the guy from the Green Mile. I know Richie Incognito is a huge piece of shit and all, but maybe Martin should be somewhat responsible for this one?

....Joffrey?

Looks like he graduated from Trump University and immediately instituted his business plan.

I took the over on binge eating and a hangover & won big, baby!

Ha! Jokes on him. I don’t have any money.

Except for the fact that these contestants are all seemingly Americans. Treating the idea that 3 ostensible trivia masters all completely whiffed on a quintessentially american category with such incredulity makes perfect sense. Can you imagine getting 3 Brits together on a gameshow and having none of them even having…

The contestants were on an American game show. I don’t know about the other two, but the contestant who spoke sounded American.

This Overwatch league has been around all of two weeks and I have seen 27 articles about it. The breathless enthusiasm of shit like “FINALLY x is y and z” for something that didn’t exist a month ago is frustrating and weird.

Just a guess.. but, for me, this was cross posted to Deadspin... I understand your argument if one was reading Kotaku (as compete is a sub-domain off of Kotaku) but it is no different then a Mario Kart article being cross posted to Jalopnik... maybe similar but not exactly the same audience.

I’m also interested in muting Compete and I do not feel bad for being a troll. I get that there are people who are apparently into pro video game competitions (just say no to the term esports...), but the sheer number of cross-posts is starting to make me feel like I’m in a Black Mirror episode.

Is there any way to mute Compete? I feel bad for being a troll but these cross-posts are really getting obnoxious.

I hope this fuckbag dies, along with every other person that’s in this bullshit administration.

Sure, but what is to stop them from slowing down your VPN connection? (spoiler - nothing)

Many of them don’t understand why this is bad, and won’t until their ISP goes to change their terms of service. Then most of them will blame Obama and continue crying out that we must allow the Invisible Hand to control all, because the only thing it will affect for them is their social media access.

They punch down, and then get all “OH, so it’s okay when a [insert minority group here] says it?!” when people respond with exhausted sighs instead of belly-laughter.

That’s because the jokes aren’t inspired by the need to communicate and connect, like those of actual good comedians. They’re inspired by the need to troll their imagined enemies.

A lot of "analytics" is sliding into dogmatic thinking. Baseball teams that take a lot of pitches and never steal are good because it's the "right" way to play. Basketball teams that take a lot of 3-pointers are good because that's the "right" way to play. Football teams that go for it on 4th and 1 are good because…

This was a really good read.

Whatever future discoveries come in the analytics world for sports, they matter less and less. But the supply of analytics geeks (and I mean that in a good way) will grow and grow, and as a result, the noise gets worse and worse.

I have never heard someone use "verticals" as a noun in an actual human conversation.

I feel like you kinda missed the point as well, though - the author clearly indicates that mass amounts of data are now freely available to basically every sports organization. His point is that instead of judging how well…