Visuals @theAthletic. Returned Peace Corps volunteer, South Africa. Minnesotan, 4̶t̶h̶ 5th nicest of 8 children. Formerly @nytgraphics +@upshotNYT
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Playoff trees, once the exclusive domain of NFL Week 18, have come to the @WNBA! (And soon, all the sports.)
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More tables in service of @TheAthletic dominating the "sicko playoff permutations" space. Eventually it will be all sports; for now, it is for @WNBA, which has 2 games to go for most teams
Gift link!
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Insanely detailed baseball playoff scenarios with 9 games to go -- updating live every day. By @theathletic baseball crew + @amock419 and our visuals/data team.
Gift link —
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New today at @TheAthletic — a team of reporters spent the summer getting the best estimate they could of how much money each school spends on its roster.
Here's the result:
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It's also the first instance (I think) of an @TheAthletic article automatically showing you information about schools you follow. (Disclosure, ND was just for development testing, I feel nothing)
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This is the coolest graphical sports project I've ever been involved with. @TheAthletic
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New this morning, an incredible collection of short replay shots from the @usopen — essentially a visual taxonomy of human emotion, as told through tennis.
A visual and technical feat by @kkrebeccalai + @jonahesmith, superbly written by @MattFutterman
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Fun analysis of more than 500k reader votes on @SandoNFL's annual QB tiers survey, matched to (anonymous) data about which NFL teams readers follow in our app.
"Across all 32 teams, followers rated their team’s quarterback higher than other readers did."
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This kind of talk is nonsense — we think the likelihood that the Jets make the playoffs is much lower than 12 percent.
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To put this in more reassuring terms, senior Anthropic staff think the chance AI kills all humans within the next decade is approximately the chance the New York Jets make the playoffs
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For the first time ever, we're launching the NFL playoff simulator ahead of NFL Week 1. That means [checks notes] today!
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And on the team details page, we have a bunch of new charts, including one showing the records you'll need to make the playoffs and a detailed table of what seed you might get at a specific record
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As always, these projects are the work of a team of people at @theathletic, all with different skills, from UX, design, statistics, modeling, computation, web development, ball-knowing (the authors) and sending 50000 slack messages (skye and me).
Lots more coming!
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Week 0 today!
If you're wondering what impact today's game have on the College Football Playoff, I have you covered.
Every team's odds to make the CFP which will be updating throughout the day over @TheAthletic
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The Athletic's @WNBA bracket forecast just launched!
The playoffs are set, but seeds 3-8 are wide open
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