How Consistent Was Every Premier League Lineup This Season?What our newest metric STABLE can tell us about Arsenal’s surprising title challenge — and Chelsea’s face-plant. By Ryan Best Befo...
A year after Albert Pujols found the fountain of youth and spent his final season setting major league pitching on fire, the old-guy star of the 2023 season hasn’t been a positional contemporar...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/andrew-mccutchen-is-hitting-it-big-again-with-the-pirates/
Bob Melvin played 10 years in the big leagues, and has managed for another 20. Yet the San Diego Padres’ skipper freely admitted that he has no idea exactly what to expect from Fernando Tatis J...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/can-fernando-tatis-jr-still-mash-after-a-year-away-from-mlb/
Each spring, NFL prospects rocket up mock draft boards for both obvious and inscrutable reasons. Sometimes it’s due to a player’s performance at the NFL combine or pro day where they flash un...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/anthony-richardson-nfl-draft-value/
When two-time MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo tumbled to the court in the first quarter of the Milwaukee Bucks’ series-opening loss against the Miami Heat, the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference kn...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-bucks-would-be-in-big-trouble-without-brook-lopez/
The NBA playoffs come with an intensified microscope on everyone, referees maybe most of all. Typically an afterthought (with some exceptions) during the regular season, NBA officials tend to be ...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/busting-4-major-myths-about-referees-in-the-nba-playoffs/
The Brooklyn Nets dropped both Games 1 and 2 of their series with the Philadelphia 76ers on the road, and they face a tough climb to come back and make this a competitive series — let alone adv...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-mikal-bridges-went-from-supporting-player-to-star/
In 2021, Jarred Kelenic was the No. 4 prospect in baseball, according to MLB Pipeline. That placed him one spot ahead of a fellow Seattle Mariners outfield prospect, Julio Rodriguez, at No. 5. Bu...
When we talk about the Tampa Bay Rays, it’s usually regarding their plucky ability to surprise the baseball world and win more games than expected despite a meager payroll, sparse attendance an...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/tampa-bay-rays-hot-start/
Every WNBA draft has the potential to reshape the league. But Monday’s picks might carry more of that capability than most. Last year’s worst teams just got a lot better. The Indiana Fever ad...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/who-won-the-2023-wnba-draft/
The puck drops on the 2023 NHL playoffs on Monday, which means the most grueling postseason in all of professional sports will soon commence. In anticipation, let’s run down the list of top Sta...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-nhl-playoffs-are-here-can-anyone-stop-the-big-bad-bruins/
As the 2022 season ended, the New York Mets and owner Steve Cohen were wrapping up a major-league payroll record by shelling out about $430 million in salaries plus luxury tax penalties. Then Coh...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/mets-payroll-slow-start-2023/
As the NBA’s annual play-in tournament plays out over the next few days, we’re sure to hear a lot of talk about which of the teams involved is the greatest threat to “make some noise” in ...
The NBA playoffs are almost here, with the play-in tournament tipping off later tonight. But while the regular season was careening toward a dramatic finish, we were hard at work creating a live ...
Kyrie Irving’s tenure with the Dallas Mavericks could not have had a brighter beginning. Following a Feb. 6 trade, Irving faced the Los Angeles Clippers without Dallas’s superstar leader Luka...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/its-rough-out-there-in-dallas-but-its-not-kyrie-irvings-fault/
Before the Masters Tournament comes around every year in early April, it’s common for one golfer to sit head and shoulders above the rest. In most current fans’ minds, that player was Tiger W...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/who-will-win-2023-masters/
It warms this writer’s baseball-loving heart to see the MLB standings finally beginning to fill in anew this spring. Yes, that’s with an emphasis on “beginning” — we’re only a week in...
With apologies to fans of Florida Atlantic, Miami and San Diego State, three-quarters of the 2023 men’s Final Four didn’t look like they belonged there. One year after we got four of the game...
There were many impressive things about LSU’s victory over Iowa in the women’s NCAA Tournament championship game Sunday — from the Tigers’ first basketball title in school history to Kim ...
One year after arguably the most blue-blooded Final Four of all time, the 2023 men’s NCAA Tournament national semifinal slate looks uniquely green. The four-team field includes three first-time...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-to-watch-for-in-the-mens-final-four/