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Who gets what in the new NBA Media Rights Deal?
This infographic breaks down what games each entity will broadcast for the new 11-year deal. Did anyone get a raw deal?
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How the NBA media rights contract will lead to $100M per year contracts 📈
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Noah Lyles’ insane comeback in the 100m dash explained with data visualizations
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@CWSShotBoard
@Vol_Baseball
It got interesting for a minute there but Tennessee pulled through both on and off the field. Congrats to the Vols!
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Start and finish positions in F1 Monaco and Indy 500 on Sunday
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Only 4 of 48 events in Paris 2024 have been a part of the Summer Olympics since reestablishment in 1896
🏊♂️ Swimming
🏃♂️ Track & Field
🤺 Fencing
🤸 Gymnastics
But sports are added and removed all the time, here’s how it’s done 🧵
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The 49ers - Jets game last night was the 1085th unique final score in NFL history.
This is a heatmap of the rest of them
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Katie Ledecky’s dominance and why the 1500m race is so brutal ⬇️
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Cole Hocker had the run of his life in the 1500m yesterday, here’s how he won gold 🥇
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Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone’s crushed her own world record yesterday with an unfathomable time in the 400m hurdles 🏃♀️. This is the breakdowns
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The 10 largest countries without an Olympic medal
1. Bangladesh 🇧🇩
2. Democratic Republic of the Congo 🇨🇩
3. Myanmar 🇲🇲
4. Angola 🇦🇴
5. Yemen 🇾🇪
6. Nepal 🇳🇵
7. Madagascar 🇲🇬
8. Mali 🇲🇱
9. Malawi 🇲🇼
10. Chad 🇹🇩
Will one of them get their first this year?
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Every trade partnership in the MLB over the last 5 years visualized. Insights ⬇️
🔺 The Tampa Bay Rays have made the most trades while the Washington Nationals have made the least
🤝 The most common trade partners are the Mariners/Giants and Dodgers/Rays
Divisional thread 🧵
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@CWSShotBoard
@Vol_Baseball
@AggieBaseball
Tennessee continues a strong pace, matching Texas A&M's push. Kentucky showing life again with a strong morning 📈
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Rocco's Jello Shot Challenge is one of the best parts of the College World Series in Omaha.
Tennesee fans are currently leading with 9,951 Jello Shots consumed over the last 6 days 😳
@CWSShotBoard
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Stanley Cup Finals Game 7 viewership was wild
USA 🇺🇸
Average: 7.66M viewers
Peak: 10.3M viewers
Canada 🇨🇦
Average: 7.55M viewers
Peak: 15M viewers
At its peak, almost 40% of Canada was watching Game 7 😳
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We made it easy to understand the new private equity rules in the NFL 🏈⬇️
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Team USAs 4th quarter comeback vs. Serbia was must watch tv. Here’s why it was so special
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A primer on the conference re-alignments before CFB kicks off this weekend 🏈🏫
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What's next? 📆
If you're like us you might have an Olympics hangover after watching 7 hours of events per day.
So we put together a yearly sports calendar to understand what's next and when to ramp up excitement depending on your favorites.
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Yesterday was potentially Rafael Nadal's last French Open match ever. Here's a look at his storied career, with a focus on his dominance on clay at Rolland Garros
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Shohei Ohtani’s 2024 will go down as one of the best individual baseball seasons of all time as he created the 50/50 club yesterday 🦄⚾️
In his landmark game yesterday, Shohei’s statline was:
- 6 for 6
- 10 RBIs
- 5 extra base hits
- 3 home runs
- 2 stolen bases
Unbelievable
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Olympic Medal Tracker July 30th - Highlights ⬇️
🥋 The most dominant country in a single sport has been Japan in Judo with 6 medals already (3 gold)
🤸 USA Women's Gymnastics won gold in the team event
🏉 USA won bronze in Women's Rugby on a buzzer-beater 94-yard run
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Bronny James being drafted by the Lakers will make him and Lebron the first active father/son duo in NBA history 👨👦
Duos like this aren't uncommon - there are more than 25 current players in the NBA with dads who played.
But none have ever overlapped
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13.1 million people watched the NBA Finals on average, the lowest since 2007 barring COVID years.
Between the lack of "old guard" stars, disappointing games in the Finals, and the general decline of television broadcast viewership, it was a perfect storm for a lackluster showing
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When you stop and think about the jumping events at the Olympics they become almost unfathomable
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Shohei Ohtani's 40/40 club milestone was historic for a few reasons ⬇️⚾️
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Surfing at the Olympics was insane this year. 🌊🏄 Here’s why Caroline Marks’ gold medal was so impressive
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14% of medals have been awarded at the Olympics. Highlights for today:
🏊 11 of the 20 USA medals have been in swimming
🤺 The only non-swimming gold medal for the US has been in fencing
🛹 Japan has the most gold medals (6) helped by 2 in Skateboarding today
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Tour de France 🚴 doping has dropped consistently since 2000 when 55% of the riders were pinned for some sort of doping. 💊
But speeds and performances have only improved. Are riders finally clean or are doping techniques just getting better and better?
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Olympic Medal Tracker - August 1st
🤸 USA fighting back in the gold medal category thanks to gymnastics and swimming
🏊 China overtook the gold medal race with 3 golds in Diving
🇧🇷 Brazil had a big drop in the standings after only bringing in two total medals today
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The EPL is the most watched sports league in the world and the season started up this week.
We break down the league structures and how different it is from US sports ⚽️⬇️
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53% of NHL trades happened in the final 3 days of the trade deadline 😳
31% (23 trades) took place today.
Since the NHL has the latest trade deadline of any of the major US sports, teams only have about a month to integrate new players for a playoff push 🚀
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Cristiano Ronaldo has taken over YouTube. In the last 36 hours his new channel smashed records for growth in a single day. Unbelievable
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The WNBA has exceeded their lofty goals so far this season 🎯
Through 66 games this season, 609k fans have attended a WNBA game, up 43% from the same point last year
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The NBA Finals had a 13.1 average point differential across the entire series
3 of the 5 games were decided by 18 or more points.
The Finals product fell flat in what was a highly anticipated matchup this year
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Dick's Sporting Goods stock has outperformed every FAANG company in the last 5 years
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International NBA players got 90% of MVP vote share this year, the highest it's ever been
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Drawing out our plan for a new tv ratings analysis and visualization
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Adrian Newey, regarded as the best designer in F1 history is heading to Aston Martin.
His new contract could be up to $39m which would make him better paid than 18 of the 20 drivers on the circuit
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Some interesting takeaways from the new Sportico NFL valuations report
Tl;dr the NFL is big and keeps getting bigger
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Stanley Cup Champion Florida Panthers narrowly avoided infamy after giving up a 3-0 lead in the finals 😳
Across all series-based leagues, teams were 402-5 when leading a series 3-0
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Criteria 📋
To join the Olympics, a sport must be widely practiced: by men in 75+ countries and by women in 40+ countries 🌍🏅.
It also must “adhere to modern athletic traditions” so mind sports and mechanically propelled sports, like chess and racing, are excluded 🚫♟️🏎️.
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If all Caitlin Clark's games sell out this year (18k fans per game), it would single-handedly lift average WNBA attendance by 29% this year
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What the heck is a Salary Cap? 💸🧢
When we talk about "the biggest contract ever signed" or "this is a 10-year maximum deal", it's hard to fathom 🤔 without knowing about the Salary Cap.
We make it easy to grasp with data visualization ⬇️
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A look at ticket prices for all Caitlin Clark games this year as the season kicks off today 🎟️
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International players got 90% of NBA MVP votes this year, we break it down here
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With the MLB season upon us, let's look back at which teams had the best "bottom lines" last year.
Operating Income Ranks ⬇️
1. Orioles
2. Mariners
3. Cubs
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28. Blue Jays
29. Padres
30. Mets
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If anyone’s read Outliers, 📖 the first chapter describes how hockey players are more likely to make the NHL if they’re born in the first part of the year.
"The explanation for this is quite simple. It has nothing to do with astrology, nor is there anything magical about the
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Speed climbing is the fastest Olympic sport, with the world record under 5 seconds 🤯 here's a full breakdown
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If you didn’t know… now you know 💸📊
The economics behind horse racing and breeding are wild. We break it down here after our story in SportsBall last week ⬇️
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With the Tennessee Volunteers' victory at the College World Series, Rocco's Jello Shot challenge is officially over with a record-setting 96,407 Jell-O shots purchased for charity 💰
Congrats to the Vols for a win both on and off the field🎉
@CWSShotBoard
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Analysis prep for our data exploration of the NFL schedule release
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20 pancakes in 4.5 hours 🥞
Our league's fantasy football punishment was the IHOP challenge, where you have to stay in an IHOP until you eat 24 pancakes or sit for 24 hours. For every hour that passes, you have to eat one less pancake.
Here's our loser's progress visualized 📈
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Sorry boss, we're in back-to-back meetings all day ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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No one can say we don't have a March Madness strategy this year...
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Conclusions:
Patrick Mahomes and Joe Burrow get the most help of anyone in the league from their receivers 🤷♂️
Matt Stafford and Kirk Cousins are doing the most, throwing for a ton of yards without much help 🙄
Both Tua and his receivers are dominant
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What Baby Wants Baby Gets 🏀
@JHarden13
NBA superstar and part-time diva 💅 James Harden just got traded to the LA Clippers. Harden's been demanding an exit from Philly for months, and he finally got his wish.
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Real Madrid's Champions League success can be boiled down to three "eras".
The Hot Start
The Galacticos
The Zidane 2.0
Bonus points for the recent success under Ancelotti. We visualized their championships here.
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NBA season preview for the casual fan 🏀
📲 Why should I care?
📝 How does the game work?
👯♂️ Who should I care about?
We got you covered again 🧵
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Did we.... call this? SKIMS now collabing with athletes across multiple sports as they launch menswear for the first time 👀
SKIMS is now worth $4Bn after a new fundraising round, making it more valuable than most professional sports teams including the San Francisco Giants ⚾️
MLB x SKIMS baseball pants partnership in the future? 👀
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The Magnificent 7 but make it Sports 📈
We mapped a “stock price” for every NBA team this year, with a win= +1 and a loss= -1, generating a win/loss score plot over time 📊. When overlaid with public stocks, the correlations draw wild parallels between sports and business ⬇️
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@JoePompliano
If you like sports and graphs 📊 you might like our weekly newsletter as well. Subscribe here ➡️
Thanks for the shoutout, Joe!
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@FOS
Fans deserved better from John Fisher. Boycott + driving your own fanbase away led to record low attendance in 2023
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How much help do NFL QBs get from receivers?
Most ⬆️
Pat Mahomes
Joe Burrow
Least ⬇️
Matt Stafford
Kirk Cousins
And Brock Purdy DOESN'T rely on his all star wideouts more than anyone in the league 👏
Check out the slope chart below
📈 Receivers do more
📉 QBs do more
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Great news for people who are bad at golf
Scottie Scheffler's Tour Ranking 🔢
Tee to Green: 1st 🥇
Putting: 128th
Overall World Ranking: 1st 🥇
The lesson? Putting isn't as important as everyone says
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With 24 points last night, Caitlin Clark is one step closer to the NCAA all-time scoring record.
The probability of breaking the record 📊:
Before last night's game: 80.3%
After last night's game: 74.7%
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SKIMS is now worth $4Bn after a new fundraising round, making it more valuable than most professional sports teams including the San Francisco Giants ⚾️
MLB x SKIMS baseball pants partnership in the future? 👀
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The A's are on the move 🚌
With the team heading to Sacramento for the next three seasons before landing in LV, we could see one or two sold-out stadiums in the 14,000-seat Sutter Health Park.
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@JoePompliano
Thanks Joe! We make data visualizations to help tell stories in sports for the common fan 🫡
Newsletter with weekly long form stories is here
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@RGIII
@FSUFootball
@rg3andtheones
@GGriffinIII
Mr. Ketchup and Mustard are what Joel McHale’s sleep paralysis demons look like
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College GameDay helped grow college football's popularity with its blend of analysis, school spirit, and unique live fan atmosphere. Celebrity guest pickers (usually alumni) now add to the hype on Saturdays. (5/6)
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At a team level, the story is even more stark. Some teams had more than 20% of their salary cap wiped out in 2023, culling their championship hopes
Teams who got the injury bug 🐞
🛩️ Jets
🟫 Browns
🔌 Chargers
Teams who stayed healthy 🧑⚕️
🔴 Chiefs
🌉 49ers
🏴☠️ Raiders
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Let's talk about Quarterback Yards 🏈
NFL QB stats are commonly measured by passing yards per game. Over 300 yards is 🤯, 200-300 is 😉, 100-200 is 😧, under 100 is 😵. But yards can be split into "air yards" and "yards after catch." 1/6
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🏈💸 Injuries in the NFL aren't just painful, they're pricey!
The 2023 season saw a staggering $692M lost to injuries - the salary cap of three full teams combined.
Here are the top 20 most expensive player injuries this last season ⬇️
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@TaylorMadeGolf
Shooting a 102 at your local municipal hits different with these 😮💨
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@JoePompliano
Doing the math, if each Clark game got 18k fans, the average attendance across the league would be up 29%. Sure it may be unlikely but the potential for single player-impact is unmatched
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Fanatics is the Amazon of sports 😳 They have exclusive e-commerce and merchandising deals with every league now. If you're buying merch, it's probably coming from them
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Are NFL 🏈 quarterbacks tricking us?
Passing yards in the NFL include both how far you throw the ball AND how far the receiver runs with it afterward 🏃♂️. The SportsBall analytics team took a look at which quarterbacks get the most help from their receivers 👀
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Growth 📈
Since 1896, the Olympic Games have grown from 241 to over 10,000 competitors, adding and removing nearly 100 events since 1980.
Despite many hopefuls, only a few activities secure a spot in the Olympic program.
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Tonight is the first-ever airing of NHL "Frozen Frenzy" ❄️
Starting at 7PM EST you can watch every game at once as a host whips around to the big moments in the league 🏒
For those getting into hockey, there's no better intro than having a host explain every big play and
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