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Listen To ‘Hot Takedown,’ Our Sports Podcast Pilot

Loyal FiveThirtyEight readers: This week we recorded a trial run of our new sports podcast “Hot Takedown,” and we’re eager for you to take a listen. We’re trying to add a little data perspective to the major storylines — and arguments — of the week. This episode, editor Chadwick Matlin, sportswriter Neil Paine and visual […]

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Listen To ‘Hot Takedown,’ Our Sports Podcast Pilot

Loyal FiveThirtyEight readers: This week we recorded a trial run of our new sports podcast “Hot Takedown,” and we’re eager for you to take a listen. We’re trying to add a little data perspective to the major storylines — and arguments — of the week. This episode, editor Chadwick Matlin, sportswriter Neil Paine and visual […]

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2014 NBA Preview: Key Offseason Pickups Should Give The Cavs A Boost

FiveThirtyEight treats the NBA’s return like Cleveland treated LeBron’s homecoming. But while the people of Ohio cheered, we spreadsheeted. To get ready for the season, we took each player’s projected Real Plus-Minus and wins above replacement, calculated a total for each team, and ran 10,000 simulations of the NBA schedule to divine likely records and […]

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2014 NBA Preview: Key Offseason Pickups Should Give The Cavs A Boost

FiveThirtyEight treats the NBA’s return like Cleveland treated LeBron’s homecoming. But while the people of Ohio cheered, we spreadsheeted. To get ready for the season, we took each player’s projected Real Plus-Minus and wins above replacement, calculated a total for each team, and ran 10,000 simulations of the NBA schedule to divine likely records and […]

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