Welcome to Sports Staturday.
Some insightful, some irreverent.
That’s the idea here.
Should be all set for some fun lookups come March.
NHL and college football are next in line.
Any piece of relevant data on every game page needs to be in my database.
That’s one of those jokes that after typing out I realize might not actually be a joke.
But one way or another, I’ll get to baseball stats.
Anyway - sorry for the preamble.
But I want to show I’ve put thought into this idea.
Sports Staturday should be like your One Saturday Morning when you were a kid.
Except, an adult version where you hold a Bloody Mary instead of a bowl of Fruity Pebbles.
Let’s have some fun.
Look at a graph or two.
And get ready to take on the weekend.
This is Sports Staturday.
That’s bad news for Tyrese Martin.
He’s probably not anyone’s favorite player.
Even on the Nets.
Sure, sometimes you get a negative +/- because you play in place of Steph Curry or Jokic.
But -56 is bad.
In fact, only two players have ever been worse.
Manny Harris and Scoot Henderson.
Here’s a nice little list in order of worst from top-down.
Tough look for Scoot showing up twice towards the top of the list including the worst of all-time.
Maybe Anfernee Simons can be that guy (had a -36 Thursday night).
Let’s do one more NBA tidbit before moving on the NFL Divisional Round.
And for those wondering, KAT is sitting around 1,318 too which is no slouch.
I know how this story always ends, but I absolutely love this.
Seriously though, the Knicks really are a fun team to watch.
MSG is top of class in terms of fan energy.
The only other NBA fandom on their level that jumps to mind is Sacramento.
Can’t wait for the three-peat this spring.
Yeah, I know.
There’s football on today.
Call me crazy, but I’m not buying it.
I think he comes to play vs the Eagles regardless if they win or not.
There’s nothing to worry about with the snow or cold.
But it doesn’t.
Check out this simple rundown of his passing yards of games by temperature.
Six for Flynn, in an all-time fraud game he would take to the bank.
As for the graph above - I’m seeing no correlation.
If anything, a slight downtick as temps increase.
But really, it’s all expected variance.
How about in LA?
Did the warm climate make a hard man from Detroit soft?
The elephant in the graph here represents Week 16 of this season.
110 yards in the 23 degree New York winter.
Watch out for an upset.
Either way - Matt Stafford can still throw in cold weather.
There’s no correlation to suggest lower temps bring him down.
Lamar Jackson on the other hand…
Now that’s a correlation.
But there’s definitely something going on here when temps are 50 degrees or colder.
Also 70 degrees and warmer.
Maybe the fact that Pittsburgh is in their division skews things.
But then again, so is Cleveland.
And Cincinnati isn’t exactly a barn burning defense.
Maybe there’s something to guys who cover every square inch of their face in the cold.
This will be interesting.
Bills Mafia will be jumping or falling through 16 degrees of cold air on Sunday.
The coldest game Lamar has ever played was 27 degrees.
Of course, none of this takes into account Jackson’s rushing prowess.
I expect him to run.
And that might be a problem.
That’s enough for this week.
Hope you enjoyed this first edition of Sports Staturday.
Many more to come.
