What Are the Best Sports to Watch Live?
A personal look into several popular American sports and how they rank against one another in terms of how enjoyable they are to watch live versus on TV.
A (Slightly) More Fair Way To Do College Football Playoffs
In 2014 the NCAA finally caved to pressures that the championship system for the FBS (formerly known as Division I-A) was inherently unfair. Instead of using a computer algorithm to pick two teams out of over 120 to play in a championship, they decided to choose four teams by committee to compete in a 2-round…
Football Rules I'd Like to See Changed
Football (the American version, mind you) is one of my favorite sports to watch. It beautifully combines athleticism, violence, and strategy into a very entertaining (albeit long) game to watch. Among its features are a myriad of rules that require countless years of watching the game to become familiar with (or perhaps just an afternoon…
College Football: Why You Can't Glean Too Much From Conference Bowl Records
With every new year comes a period lasting anywhere from a few days to a few months where I write the previous year and have to scribble it out. But it also brings with it the sad end of the college football season, culminated with several weeks of nonstop bowl action. I love bowl season,…
How To Make College Football Better (Well, Maybe)
Aside from pro tennis, college football is my favorite sport (and luckily their two seasons rarely come into conflict). Yes, I think college football is more fun to watch than the NFL. Why? I can't really put my finger on it, but I think it has something to do with the fact that college football…
How Professional Tennis Is (kinda) Rigged
While my mind is on the subject of sports being unfair, I thought I'd dive into perhaps my favorite professional sport: tennis. Tennis is, for the most part, a pretty fair game. There is, of course, some variability related to an individual player's performance on a given day, meaning that the winner of a single…
A Few More Reasons Why Sports Shouldn't Have Playoffs
I know I'm kinda beating a dead horse at this point, but I feel it is my civic duty to inform my fellow sports fans about some clearly identifiable ways that sports are doing things wrong. For past posts on this topic, see a breakdown on different sports season structure and why baseball should not…
[Video] How to Lose In The Playoffs
Sports are hard, and just making it to the playoffs is even harder. But losing in the playoffs is as easy as 1, 2, 3... For my thoughts on playoffs check out this article and this article.
Statistical Analysis for Why Baseball Should Not Have a Playoff
Editor's Note: This is a continuation of the article Is Your Favorite Sport Choosing The Best Team Fairly?. I suggest reading at least the first part of it for context. Growing up in Georgia, I was a fan of the Atlanta Braves and Falcons. Being a fan of the Braves in the '90s and early 2000s…
Is Your Favorite Sport Choosing the Best Team Fairly?
Editor's note: this post got pretty long, so I decided to throw baseball into it's own article...stay tuned. People like sports. They are exciting to watch, fun to follow, and offer great small talk fodder with people whom you have little in common. For a graphical view of why people like sports, consult the image…