I don't watch much football, so maybe this is dumb, but are shorter QBs more likely to run rather than drop back and pass? If so, I could imagine a lot of their yards coming in the form of run yards. Likewise, when they're scrambling, they're more likely to do short yardage passes. In contast, the tall QBs might be more likely to drop back and give more time for the medium/long routes to develop for bigger gains.

How do you think we got our doctorates in phucking?

Who wants to be a Medical Doctor, when you can be a Phucking Doctor?

I have a PhD in one of the white states. I'm basically a god.

In baseball, this is called the Pythagorean W-L stat. It correlates very strongly with actual W-L but not perfectly. Some teams over/underperform.

But aren't test cricket matches usually pretty important? MLB teams play 162 games per season and relatively few of these games have serious implications. I love baseball, but even I usually have it on in the background while I'm doing other things. The slowness of the game and the fact that it really doesn't matter too much whether my team wins or loses any particular game suits me. But I can see why the average person is going to have a hard time getting into it at all.

I haven't heard one person who really knows about the case who doesn't think SCOTUS is going to rule against Harvard and probably squash affirmative action entirely. So yeah, this rings true to me.

And then there's Popeyes, where the service ranges from general disinterest to outright hostility.

Even still, INO has got to be the most profitable franchise to own, right?

I wonder what percentage of that top 1% in the DR is baseball players?

But that's just one dimension, red to blue. That works if you're measuring one thing. But how do you use this for two separate measures (i.e., two dimensions)?

It's hard to plot two dimensions in a map. Maybe two separate maps, one for etoh and one for smoking?

What are the 1-letter words with 2 syllables?

That makes sense. NHL has been declining in popularity for many years and is really only still considered part of the "big four" sports because of its history. I just saw a report that said only 6 teams in the NFL, NBA, and MLB have lower payrolls than the salary cap in the NHL. The highest paid player in the NHL makes $12.5M whereas the top players in the other three leagues make 4 times that. It's crazy how far the NHL has fallen from where it was in the '90s.

I'm from DC, so I'll gladly take the soccer championships, but I don't think most Americans would consider them legit championships on the level of the other sports.

From the party who had control flowing the previous general election.

But why would you find it repulsive for people not in situations like yours to do this?

I'm such a stats geek that I'm actually getting a little emotional looking at it (the topic is probably also playing a role).

I would be proud to have been named after my dad.

Very true. Indeed, that landslide Republican takeover in 1894 included most of the country except the southern (i.e., former Confederate) states.

This is just the midterms. It doesn't include the general elections.

A lot of different things, including a full-blown economic depression, basically caused Grover Cleveland's presidency and the Democratic party to completely collapse across the country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1894_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections

that's right. elephant = republican takeover; donkey = democrat takeover. i should have added that as a legend.

Done in Excel; data from House of Representatives

https://history.house.gov/Institution/Party-Divisions/Party-Divisions/