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The Best NFL Receivers, According To ESPN Analytics

PUBLISHED NOV. 1, 2022, AT 12:30 PM The Best NFL Receivers, According to ESPN AnalyticsThese ratings, updated weekly, use player-tracking data from NFL Next Gen Stats to evaluate every route a pass catcher runs and assess his performance in three phases More NFL:How this worksOur 2022 NFL PredictionsCan you outsmart our forecasts? Four takes on […]

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Our Guide To The Exuberant Nonsense Of College Fight Songs

p1:College fight songs are Saturday staples, memorized in freshman orientation and blasted by marching bands at every game. The best ones are shouted from the rooftops and during Heisman Trophy presentations; the worst barely register with alumni. p2:We gathered the fight songs of 65 schools — all those in the Power Five conferences (the ACC, […]

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How Good Are FiveThirtyEight Forecasts?

Forecasts have always been a core part of FiveThirtyEight’s mission. They force us (and you) to think about the world probabilistically, rather than in absolutes. And making predictions — modeling a candidate’s chance of being elected or a team’s odds of making the playoffs — improves our understanding of the world by testing our knowledge […]

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