It’s my last day at FiveThirtyEight! I’m next starting a daily newsletter, Numlock News. If you’ve been a fan of Beside The Points, please subscribe! Things That Caught My Eye Knights in Five The Vegas Golden Knights became just the second-ever expansion team in the post-1960 histories of the NHL, NBA, NFL or MLB to […]
Some personal news first: I’m leaving FiveThirtyEight soon to start a forthcoming daily newsletter, Numlock News. If you’ve been a fan of Beside The Points, please subscribe! Things That Caught My Eye Lightning making a go of it The Tampa Bay Lightning’s win Tuesday meant that their playoff series with the Washington Capitals won’t end […]
Things That Caught My Eye I hope you don’t enjoy hitting in baseball Ben Lindbergh looked at partial no-hitters, that is games where a pitcher threw a no-hitter threw a certain number of innings, and found that this season so far has had the most no-hitters though the 5th, 6th and 7th innings since the […]
Things That Caught My Eye Marc-Andre Fleury is outstanding Vegas Golden Knights goalie Marc-Andre Fleury is in the middle of one of the best ever playoffs for a goalie, pitching four shutouts in his first 10 starts. There have been 14 goalie-seasons since ’79 where a player posted four or more shutouts in a playoff […]
Things That Caught My Eye Justify a crown contender Favorite “Justify,” who went into the Kentucky Derby with 3-to-1 odds of winning, defeated Good Magic by 2.5 lengths on Saturday. Justify, who is more accomplished at three years old than I am at age 27, never raced as a two-year-old, and is the first Derby […]