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September 2023
🅼. NWSL Playoff Scenarios Are Chaos — And We Have A Chart to Prove It
We simulated the rest of the NWSL regular season schedule 10,000 times to track who still has a shot at the postseason (hint: it’s everybody)
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📈2023 NFL Elo Ratings & Win Projections🏈
The following table is a list of NFL teams with their Elo ratings and projected wins for the 2023 season. (Note: This is basic Elo, so no adjustments…
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🅼. Forget Travis Kelce: If Taylor Swift Were an NFL Player, She’d Be Tom Brady
The Messenger quantified how successful pop music's biggest star would be if she were an NFL player. To Swifties, the answer will not be surprising.
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🅼. How MLB’s New Rules Changed the Game in 2023
Which rule changes worked best (and least): Here's a weekly helping of Brain Food to make you smarter.
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🅼. 2023 Was the Year of Stolen Bases in MLB. Here’s What That Means for the Playoffs.
Baseball's new rules encouraged more running, and that's exactly what happened — even if the effect of steals on winning was mixed at best.
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📈Updated NASCAR Cup Series Playoff Rankings🏁
Projecting who will rise and fall throughout the championship chase, using each driver’s history at each track type.
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The Candy Man, The Candy Man, The Candy Man
Listen now (58 mins) | Welcome back to Podracing, the NASCAR podcast from sportswriters Neil Paine and Tyler Lauletta! It’s the first cut race of the…
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🅼. Previewing the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs’ Round of 12
Can Kyle Larson, Denny Hamlin and Martin Truex Jr. keep their title hopes on track as the championship chase rolls on to Texas, Talladega and Charlotte?
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🅼. Max Verstappen Didn’t Win Last Week. It Made His Season Look Better.
Why sometimes athletes can be too dominant for their own good: Here's a weekly helping of Brain Food.
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🅼. What Would Happen If Men’s Tennis Grand Slams Were Best-of-3?
Want to introduce some chaos into a competition that’s often too predictable? This oughta do it.
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🅼. Handicapping the Final Surge to the MLB Postseason
Here are the favorites, longshots, and must-win games to watch over the final weeks of baseball’s regular season.
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