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I had to go to the replies, but here is what I believe it’s supposed to mean. If it’s 4th and 2 - go for it 4th and 5 - maybe go for it Worse than 4th and 5 - kick a FG I don’t think I would have figured this out on my own.
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Dexo posted:I can't parse it at all  I have no loving clue what it’s trying to say
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Bird in a Blender posted:I had to go to the replies, but here is what I believe it’s supposed to mean. Why does it say 1d? I don't see anything about 4th down.
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green for 2, so they want Miami to run it back for a safety
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It would need to lose enough users to make it not worthwhile for their jobs.
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The X-man cometh posted:Why does it say 1d? I don't see anything about 4th down. I have no clue. I think it’s supposed to be like you’re telling the coach what to do in 3 downs. It’s very dumb, but apparently it’s supposed to make total sense according to the a-hole from espn.
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Bip Roberts posted:I wonder what it would take for sportswriters to leave twitter TV and broadcasters to stop referring to tweets for any breaking news. Twitter, apparently (and in broad terms) isn’t great for driving readership to articles, the engagement and use of it as a platform for discussion is basically worthless at that scale, and they aren’t looking for the ad dollars. So here’s watching for ESPN to set up their own Mastodon instance to basically transfer that functionality over to another platform.
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An ESPN instance would be pretty funny. People barely want to federate with the journalist instance and news is way more acceptable than sports generally is there (there is a really good sports instance although I don't think it's open at the moment). I'd love to see it though.
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Nybble posted:it’s understandable why folks hate analytics when the Sports Leader puts out poo poo like this This guy is somehow sub-Tom Tango/Nate Silver in the "arrogant sports analytics prick with bad ideas and worse dataviz" competition. Amazing.
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Elegance is subjective I suppose, but when you keep insisting that your graphic is, "understandable," when your audience tells you they don't understand it, you are denying objective reality. I think the guy made the thing and fell in love with it and is taking the criticism personally. Which is really loving weird.
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His daughter taught him what FITFO means and he's determined to find ways to use it as much as possible in the replies.
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The X-man cometh posted:His daughter taught him what FITFO means and he's determined to find ways to use it as much as possible in the replies. Multiple layers of irony here as I had to go look that abbreviation up too, ha. Also, the fact that a person in communications is getting direct feedback that they aren't communicating well and just tells their audience to do better rather than improve their own communication is 
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I am not a big football guy but I don't understand how "Go for it on 4th and 2, maybe go for it on 4th and 5, and kick a FG otherwise" is even knowledge worth writing down, much less making an incomprehensible illustration for.
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I don't know if everyone gets the daily Defector newsletter, but I thought this gem was a worthy entry to the Ratto Appreciation Station:Ray Ratto posted:The NFL knows that international soccer is making its next and biggest play to seize the American audience, and it leapt into action as only it can—by watching the greatest soccer match with the greatest stakes and countering with the inconceivable. And because it's the NFL, where excess is merely the pregame show and halftime entertainment is finally spent as a draw, it went to the place it usually holds inviolable—the actual games. "the Colts and their student production of football" absolutely slays me.
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Inspector_666 posted:I am not a big football guy but I don't understand how "Go for it on 4th and 2, maybe go for it on 4th and 5, and kick a FG otherwise" is even knowledge worth writing down, much less making an incomprehensible illustration for. The thing is, in the past, it was basically a two-tiered system of "maybe go on fourth and 1 or less otherwise kick FG" and nowadays we have math to show that you might have better options This knowledge is very slowly seeping into football at all levels as younger people get into coaching and teams spin up analytics departments, and expressing that data is valuable. This guy just did it in a bad way.
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If this guy is supposed to be in charge of analytics graphics, stuff like this shouldn't be seeping down to him
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Beef Of Ages posted:I don't know if everyone gets the daily Defector newsletter, but I thought this gem was a worthy entry to the Ratto Appreciation Station: Ray Ratto continues to be a treasure. I still go back to the "Rare Rays" column occasionally, and it kills me every time. I have my quibbles about Defector, but I truely love that you can read a headline on that site and have a 85+% chance of guessing who wrote the article based on that. Every writer really seems to have their own voice, and it's lovely.
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now it's christmas season https://twitter.com/DefectorMedia/status/1605602262465781761
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please tell me this means we're also about to get the "what did we get stuck in our rectums this year?" post
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DJExile posted:please tell me this means we're also about to get the "what did we get stuck in our rectums this year?" post that article would be this tweet https://twitter.com/LBC/status/1605585654670295042
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DJExile posted:please tell me this means we're also about to get the "what did we get stuck in our rectums this year?" post ‘Tis the season (to run evergreen content and let people have days off)
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It's back! It's back! https://defector.com/what-did-we-get-stuck-in-our-rectums-last-year-3/
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FMguru posted:It's back! It's back! The most important piece of sports journalism of the year (to get stuck in your rectum).
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PotatoJudge posted:The most important piece of sports journalism of the year (to get stuck in your rectum).
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Crazy Ted posted:It really is one of my annual reading highlights of the year. *anal-ual
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I heard y'all like hot takes so here's a hot goddamn take: https://twitter.com/JoshNeighbors_/status/1607736355701882880 https://www.bakersfield.com/opinion...e1b2699a63.html
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It was me, Columbo. I killed the Rose Bowl.
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Wait I thought everyone winning and getting a trophy is what was killing sports and also humanity? Now only having one winner is the problem?
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He is actually saying the college sports are killing humanity and is correct in that take.
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I know it's real quick but the more I think about it the more we might have to reserve a spot for that in the Sports Wing of the Hot Take Hall of Fame.
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If you wanna talk about the downfall of western civilization, there's the Jimmy Kimmel bowl.
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Crazy Ted posted:I heard y'all like hot takes so here's a hot goddamn take:
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Who's still covering the Hockey Canada scandal(s)? I think there are one or two reporters still on that poo poo even though it has predictably left the news cycle and the empty heads of hockey fans everywhere a long time ago. And have any NHL or other players come out with statements about it? I thought I remembered like... one guy saying something, and that's it.
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For what it’s worth, I’ve noticed a distinct lack of excitement for the world juniors while I’ve been home at my parents’ place this week. It’s on, some people are watching, but there’s no big hype. TSN seems mildly embarrassed to be airing it. That seems like maybe the best you could expect from Canadians. As for the scandal details themselves, after Hockey Canada leadership finally fell on their swords things got a little quieter, but the investigations are still ongoing as far as I know.
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I get a lot of notifications about articles in The Athletic about both the Hockey Canada thing and the world juniors.
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At least some of that is probably because agents are feeding him stuff to put out verbatim, though he's clearly got his own style
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