South Philadelphia in snow

Isaiah Zagar made Philadelphia, and in turn the world, a more beautiful place to live. May his memory be a blessing.

NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to find out why they're so good at the Winter Olympics and i was yelling BECAUSE IT'S COLD THERE then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results" and i was like. oh!

Dan McQuade, 1983–2026: defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

One of the best to ever do it

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

Is it bad to be thinking about the draft after 10 Vikings games? Asking for a friend

🧵 Thread: I recently explored a few ideas to analyze a team's press in more detail 👇 1️⃣ Pressing triggers ▫️By focusing on the opponent's pass before a 1st pressing action in a sequence, it's possible to separate different triggers 👇 The graphic shows an example, with the 8 triggers that I defined

The mountains are calling and I must go

hockey :)

We can use xG to compute post-hoc win-draw-loss probabilities. Our new blogpost shows MCMC's estimates of these probabilities are unstable, computing them exactly is faster than approximating them, and MCMC's runtime strongly depends on its implementation. dtai.cs.kuleuven.be/sports/blog/...

three Schwarber HRs, one for each of the three Phillies (Trea, Sanchez, Ranger) who were snubbed for the ASG

paradox, you say

New #CMSAC #SportsAnalytics paper on evaluating change of direction in the #NFL by myself and @stat-ron.bsky.social arxiv.org/pdf/2507.06122 Spoiler alert: DK Metcalf displays straight-line, less agile movement, while George Pickens exhibits erratic, more variable directional movement.

I swear to god, if all those Panthers players coming onto the ice at the same time causes me data issues lmao

Good morning, some cool skeletal XG research just dropped by KTH and Tracab! 📎 tinyurl.com/skor-xg

(Users clamoring for more sports posting) [posts about the Mariners] Hello, human resources?

stephengeary.shinyapps.io/draftsim/ Created a simple shinyapp to visualize a Monte Carlo simulation of the upcoming NHL Draft

stephengeary.shinyapps.io/draftsim/ Created a simple shinyapp to visualize a Monte Carlo simulation of the upcoming NHL Draft

What makes a rebuild successful? I did a deep dive on the Panthers 2024 cup winning roster to find out. puckluckanalytics.com/2025/05/14/r...

NEW with @simonkuper.bsky.social: The prevailing narrative around increased injuries and player workload in elite football is wrong. Players don’t play any more football than in the past. What has changed is a sharp rise in intensity of play. Not more minutes, but each minute exerts more load.

“Tradition of success in Dallas” 🤨

I think Arsenal fans would disagree. Felt quite magical.

I’ve been using the new gradients and patterns in #rstats and #ggplot2 quite a bit for recent package, so here’s a deep dive! Everything from the basics of using gradients in your plots through to sophisticated visual effects. jamesgoldie.dev/writing/stac...

Too many March Madness references for me to delay posting this any longer! If you've ever wondered why you're bothering to talk about football without using dice to illustrate your point, boy do I have some thoughts for you

Justin Bailey turns on the JETS in the penalty shot⛽️😮‍💨 #ONTvsSD

Me watching Severance:

Tonight’s three stars of the game: 🌟 Coulson Pitre ⭐️⭐️ Tristan Luneau ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Tyson Hinds #LetsGoGulls #ABBvsSD

I really liked this idea of using a histogram as a legend in a choropleth map (since land isn't unemployed; people are), so I made a little guide to doing it with #rstats, {ggplot2}, and {patchwork} www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...

"all I gotta say is GO FUCKING BIRDS!" - Landon Dickerson lmao

Good Afternoon from your Super Bowl Champion, Philadelphia Eagles.

THE PHILADELPHIA EAGLES ARE SUPER BOWL 59 CHAMPIONS MERRILL REESE AND MIKE QUICK ON THE CALL 1/2

SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS! THIS ONE’S FOR YOU PHILLY!

The Moon, by Gary Hume, 2009

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THE PHILADELPHIA EAGLES ARE SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS!! #SuperBowlLIX #superbowl #cbj

Muting Tom Brady, turning on the Philly police scanner

go birds

It’s Gameday (Super Bowl Version) ❗️ 🎨: ryanlynndesign.com @Toyota | #FlyEaglesFly

Jackson LaCombe is something. I don't remember the last time a defenseman looked this good on a team this bad except for a few lottery picks.

Funniest drive in NFL history. Go birds.

Go Birds.

A few weeks ago, a client asked me for advice on how to make use of his new colour palette within spaghetti plots. What seemed like a simple question morphed into a full blog post! www.cararthompson.com/posts/2025-0... Colour can be used to emphasise different stories - pick the approach you need!

📝: The San Jose Sharks have acquired Pavol Regenda from the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for Justin Bailey.

The 12 LA area pro sports teams have set up a coalition to help wildfire victims. Free clothing and supplies will be available at Dodger stadium, SoFi, and BMO for evacuated residents this Friday ❤️

If I were a ref and they really booed me I’d just change the call. Oh, you don’t like that? Cool. I don’t like it either. Fortunately I was kidding. I’m the lovable ref with a sense of playful irony and a heart of gold

BIG DATA CUP IS BACK stathletes.com/big-data-cup