A. Salam Qureishi grew up in India and knew nothing about football — or America. And yet in the early 1960s, Qureishi, a computer programmer and statistician, helped the Dallas Cowboys overhaul their scouting system, replacing hunches with hard numbers. The result: five Super Bowl appearances and two titles. FiveThirtyEight and ESPN Films present “The […]
On Oct. 22, we’ll release the first film in our new documentary-short series, “Signals” (essentially FiveThirtyEight’s version of “30 for 30” shorts). “The Man vs. the Machine” is the story of the epic showdown between IBM’s “Deep Blue” computer and former world chess champion Garry Kasparov. Directed by Frank Marshall (producer of “Raiders of the […]
On Oct. 22, we’ll release the first film in our new documentary-short series, “Signals” (essentially FiveThirtyEight’s version of “30 for 30” shorts). “The Man vs. the Machine” is the story of the epic showdown between IBM’s “Deep Blue” computer and former world chess champion Garry Kasparov. Directed by Frank Marshall (producer of “Raiders of the […]
