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…

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….