Did you hear? Stephen Gostkowski, FiveThirtyEight’s Football Player of the Year, missed his first extra point since his rookie season, and it cost the New England Patriots a chance to win the AFC championship game and repeat as Super Bowl champions. For shame. Yes, Gostkowski was an important part of getting them there in the […]
Did you hear? Stephen Gostkowski, FiveThirtyEight’s Football Player of the Year, missed his first extra point since his rookie season, and it cost the New England Patriots a chance to win the AFC championship game and repeat as Super Bowl champions. For shame. Yes, Gostkowski was an important part of getting them there in the […]
Over time, athletes get stronger and faster, come from a broader talent pool, are better trained, and benefit from ever-growing institutional knowledge of their chosen art. This is most readily apparent with such individual skills as swimming, running and jumping — or kicking a football. One of the biggest stories of the 2016 NFL wild-card […]
Over time, athletes get stronger and faster, come from a broader talent pool, are better trained, and benefit from ever-growing institutional knowledge of their chosen art. This is most readily apparent with such individual skills as swimming, running and jumping — or kicking a football. One of the biggest stories of the 2016 NFL wild-card […]
This NFL season has had its share of head-scratching quirks, but I’m not buying that it’s been as “super weird” as it seems. A lot of stuff happens in the NFL, so every year seems like a crazy year. Variance is tumultuous. In 2010, no teams started the season 4-0; this year we had four […]
