Aston Villa: The Post-Mortem
The numbers paint a pretty dismal picture: 38 points from 38 games – lowest point total in 42 years One point worse than the total accumulated by relegated Birmingham City last season Four wins in 18 home games – worst…
Talking baseball with Tableau
Spent some thinking about the Indians chances this season and decided to put together a data visualization to try and explain how the AL Central might finish this year. The viz uses data from Fangraphs – primarily the 2011 WAR…
Why Mangini is winning me over
Just a few weeks ago I wrote about how Cleveland Browns head coach Eric Mangini was taking the Browns on a road to nowhere. I laid out arguments about he was an arrogant jerk despite his lack of success in…
Mangini offering Browns road to nowhere
If you’re not a fan of Eric Mangini, get in line. Get in line behind the Browns fans, the Browns players, the local media, the national media, and likely, the Browns front office. This certainly can’t be what Randy Lerner…
Blogging the Buckeyes
Ohio State’s presence in this game is mostly indefensible – they were slaughtered by USC earlier in the season and haven’t performed in the last two BCS Championship games. Yet, here they are facing the other defacto argument against the…
Predictions for 2009
Some random musings on what may transpire in the upcoming year: – The Cleveland Browns hire Scott Pioli (yeah, tough to see this one coming after recent events) but while go with another unproved head coach at the NFL level….