Added context: 44.9% of games during the 2024 regular season were decided by less than one touchdown #nflsky

for NFL nerds: - yesterday's 32-12 score was a scorigami (s/o @jonbois.bsky.social) - 38 out of the 1,091 scorigamis have happened during the playoffs - the last playoff scorigami before yesterday was in 2021 explore every NFL score ever here!: perthirtysix.com/nfl/scorigami #nflsky #scorigami

3 of the 5 kicks occured in this year's CFP

25 years in, which pro sports markets have had the most successful 21st Century so far? I crunched the numbers 🧮 (I'm sure this won't make anyone upset)

Put this map together following the announcement for the Rams-Vikings game

Had a fun time coming up with this #dataviz for #nflsky!

Per IMDB ratings, Jerry Jones’ best-rated cameo episode peaked in 1996—just like the Cowboys

Dug into the history books a bit for this one!

It was a record-shattering year for long distance field goals by NFL kickers

18 of the top 20 were additions to an existing franchise #filmsky

Have you seen the best of Axios Visuals 2024 yet? Come for the bitcoin ETF saga timeline, stay for an investigation into how many cupholders different countries put on their boats, an analysis of cicada brood sizes, and dancing Nerds. graphics.axios.com/2024-visuals...

Luke Littler also made the PDC World Darts Championship final last year, at age 16 🎯

Women's sports leagues are becoming big business ⚽ 🏀

The #NHL Winter Classic broke a dubious barrier this season. The Blues' 6-2 is also tied for the largest blowout in Winter Classic history (the Canadiens beat the Bruins 5-1 in 2016)

Felt like mapping out former NFL cities!

How much of this list will be LeBron by seasons end? 🤔 He's scored 26 or more points in 13 of his 28 games so far this season

NEW PROJECT: Each year, 2.6 billion pairs of sneakers are sold, and 300 million are thrown out. What can be done to make the industry more sustainable, short of buying less? @bwd.bsky.social talked to Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and industry experts to break it all down. www.espn.com/espn/feature...

Ahead of Sunday's game between the Ravens and Steelers, I did some digging on their season-by-season performance #nflsky

One oddity I didn't include as an annotation: The 49ers had four fair catch kicks attempted against them in 1968 and 1969 #NFLsky #dataviz

Trying something a bit different with this one!

Have you ever wondered about the rate at which new dinosaur species are being described? I did, so I plotted it.

I'm counting Pluto as a planet for the sake of this chart 😤

Through Week 15, no team has been shut out—that's the longest a season has ever gone without a shutout being recorded. 🤯 🔗 https://stathead.com/tiny/azBPZ

13 numbers have never been retired in North American pro sports: 38 48 59 62 64 67 69 83 84 94 95 97 98 #dataviz

This was a fun data set to clean up and process! #NFLsky

For the first time since week 10, Saquon Barkley is not on pace to break the single-season rushing record of 2,105 set by Eric Dickerson. After his 65-yard performance this week his required YPG jumped from 121 to 139. His remaining opponents are Washington, Dallas, and the Giants. #NFL #Eagles

imo the reason for the rarity trend is because of increased parity in the salary cap era, additional teams, and expanded playoffs. That said, if there was to be a Super Bowl preview this season, the Bills and Lions is a good place to start #nflsky #dataviz

A little #dataviz tracking the history of domed stadiums in the NFL #nflsky

Digging into the #NHL history books a bit #NHLSky

Was currious about enrollment figures of the CFP schools!

I wanted a way to visualize the absurdity of the Chiefs' record versus their point differential this season. This is what I came up with! Nothing complex — just used their pythagorean expectation, and simulated 100,000 runs of 13 "games" and it spat out a 12-1 season just 1.7% of the time #nflsky

fwiw, I enjoyed the venom movies for what they were ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Those other seven coaches have spent an average of 7 years in the college ranks. However, none were as old as Belichick is at 72. The oldest was Herm Edwards, who was 64 when he started coaching Arizona State in 2018. Two (Lovie Smith and Bill Calahan) went on to rejoin the NFL head coaching ranks.

Brady also sold part of his watch collection, one of which outsold any of his football gear — a vintage Rolex chronograph that was auctioned off for $1.1 million #nflsky #dataviz

Neat little interactive visual from the Philadelphia Inquirer about the upcoming Philadelphia-Pittsburgh game #nflsky

#OnThisDay in 1983, the York Daily Record in Pennsylvania ran an AP map of the upcoming college football bowl season #OTD #TodayInHistory Love the icons they made for each bowl — also, the most northern bowl game that year was the California Bowl in Fresno. This year, there's five 5 north of that

Here are the most viewed Pro Football Reference team pages in each state this year! Which team page had the most views in your state?

In 1996, the largest contract in pro sports was Shaq's $120 million deal with the Los Angeles Lakers. Now, it's $645 million higher with Juan Soto's deal #dataviz

Taylor Swift's Eras Tour averaged nearly $14 million at the gate per show #dataviz

Leo Messi's MLS MVP Award-winning season would be like someone playing in just 9 of 17 NFL games or 45 of 82 NBA games and winning MVP #soccersky

In pro sports, winning a championship can lead to growth on social media:

As of posting, the Hawk Tuah crypto coin is now at a $27 million market cap, an almost 95% plummet from where it started #HawkTuah

The Wikimedia Foundation just released its list of the top viewed pages on Wikipedia for 2024: wikimediafoundation.org/news/2024/12... I've charted the top 10 here 👇

Over half are in the past 15 years #nbasky

#TheGameAwards is set to take place on December 12 this year

They say everything’s bigger in Texas… even the Cowboys’ point margin drop from last season #nflsky

Detroit is looking well-positioned to end their 7-game losing streak on Turkey Day with a 16-0 lead over the Bears at the start of the second half #nflsky #dataviz

1/3 of Americans will prefer pumpkin pie tomorrow 🥧 #Thanksgiving

The world's fastest producton car can hit speeds of nearly 280 mph 🚗

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