Baseball Value

Summed player value tracks a season's standings closely in aggregate and misses individual clubs by several games. The gap is the interesting part.

Every contract in baseball is priced off a number that two respected sources cannot agree on. That disagreement is not a scandal — it is the whole story.

The "Mariana Great Falls Film" refers to a 16mm film purportedly shot by Nicholas Mariana, manager of the Great Falls, Montana, minor league baseball team. The film allegedly captured two unidentified bright objects flying over Great Falls on August 15, 1950. This event, alongsid

The "GO FAST" incident refers to a United States Navy encounter with an unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP) off the Atlantic coast of the United States. This event, captured on video by a Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet's AN/ASQ-228 Advanced Targeting Forward-Looking Infrared (ATFLIR)

During World War II, Allied pilots, primarily in the European and Pacific theaters of operation, frequently reported encountering unexplained aerial phenomena, colloquially termed "Foo Fighters." These were described as metallic-looking spheres, disks, or lights that exhibited un

On November 7, 2006, at approximately 4:30 PM CST, air traffic control and United Airlines personnel at Chicago O'Hare International Airport became aware of an unidentified, disc-shaped object reportedly hovering over Gate C17 of Terminal 1. The incident caused a brief closure of

The "Gimbal" incident refers to a U.S. Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet FLIR (Forward Looking Infrared) video recording of an unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP) encountered off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, in January 2015. The video, depicting an object moving against the wind

A game played by people not spreadsheets

Baseball built a statistic to measure individual value. Somewhere along the way we started asking it to explain winning, greatness and championships. Those may not be the same thing.

Is Chicago watching the beginning of the greatest center-field career baseball has ever seen?

The Bears’ Indiana threat isn’t just a stadium story. It exposes a bigger problem in professional sports: franchise values are exploding, taxpayers are pushing back on subsidies, and private equity may become the inevitable answer.

Real hardware is getting better at fixing its own errors, but the gap between a lab milestone and a machine that outperforms your laptop at anything useful remains wide and contested.

The White Sox can slug their way off the ropes. Now baseball’s most surprising Chicago revival has to learn how to stop taking punches.

Every time humans send hardware somewhere new, the prevailing model survives about as long as the first data downlink.

Elite athletes don't just see well; they process visual information differently, unlocking performance advantages that challenge conventional ideas about innate talent.

Unpacking the science behind reducing sports injuries, from sophisticated screening to intelligent workload management and targeted muscular strengthening.

Understanding advanced analytical tools like EPA, xG, and WAR is critical for discerning what truly drives on-field success and separates meaningful data from statistical noise.

Unpacking the physics of athletic motion reveals the precise interplay of forces, leverage, and timing that underpins peak performance and injury resilience.

Beyond choreographed maneuvers, professional wrestling leverages acute biomechanics, psychological storytelling, and rigorous athletic conditioning to forge a captivating hybrid of sport and spectacle.

The job description changes when the seat gets warm. The evidence is on the tape and in the decisions.

Pre-snap motion is the cheapest yardage in football. The math, the tape, and the coverages that break.

Computer vision now grades every rep of every game. Here is what it sees well — and what it still misses.

RFID chips generate 200 data points per second per player. The coaches who use it best are winning the margins.