sports

This week we highlight an overlay that obscures the useful bits and helps no one.

Kalshi is a prediction market that aims to let users bet on everything.…

NBA basketball players, most notably Terry Rozier, were arrested for illegal sports betting.…

Parlays in sports betting are booming and people are losing billions of dollars…

Matt Seaton, for the Atlantic, reports on how the statistical approach impacted cycling…

For New York Times Magazine, Devin Gordon profiled popular oddsmaker Mazi VS, a…

Alex Ovechkin passed Wayne Gretzky’s all-time goals record with number 895. For The…

For Bloomberg, Ira Boudway reports on NBA basketball going too far with the…

New to me, Plain Text Sports shows box scores for the major sports…

This week, I heard that stats are for losers. I had to check it out, because I’ve always thought stats were for winners.

The mullet has grown popular in the Australian Football League. ABC News counted…

A part of outdoor sports is that you must deal with the weather,…

During the Dallas Stars away games during this year’s NHL playoffs, fans could…

Here’s a fun one from Philip Bump for The Washington Post. Bump simply…

With Chartball, Andrew Garcia Phillips has visualized sports data for a while, publishing…

Krisztina Szűcs likes to make animated charts to show sports results, from fencing,…

If you’re into R and analyzing sports data, you’ll want to save this…

Zack Capozzi, for USA Lacrosse Magazine, explains how he calculates win probabilities pre-game…

Figure skater Nathan Chen set a world record with his performance in the…