Kemba or Kyrie? That is the question. Whether ‘twas nobler for the Boston Celtics to take their chance with Kemba Walker after his All-Star season or make it work with Kyrie Irving? In this next installment of our NBA Stat Battle, senior sportswriters Neil Paine and Chris Herring debate who is the better point guard. […]
ROOOAAARRRRR! (Do raptors roar?) In case you missed it, we recently launched our new metric for evaluating NBA players, which we’re calling RAPTOR: Robust Algorithm (using) Player Tracking (and) On/Off Ratings. Since we have this nifty new stat, we can finally tackle, and hopefully help settle, some oft-debated player rankings. Is Kemba Walker really an […]
Graphics by Ella Koeze Colin Kaepernick hasn’t played in the NFL for a few years, but now that many starting quarterbacks are unable to play this season, some fans are wondering whether teams should look at Kaepernick as a possible replacement. Is Kaepernick still good enough to play in the NFL? In the video above, […]
The Cleveland Browns … might actually be good this year? As the season opens, FiveThirtyEight’s NFL forecast thinks there’s a 41 percent chance the Browns will make the playoffs, which is way more optimistic than in years past. But before they get good, sportswriter Neil Paine wanted to relive the bad. Buckle up, it’s a […]
Dear NBA Diary (in video form!), With both NBA teams in L.A. making moves this summer, we wondered which team would dominate this upcoming season. Will the City of Angels bleed purple and gold? Or will it truly become #ClipperNation? Using our updated NBA projections for the 2019-2020 season, we took a look at how […]