TWINTIG 5
Putting numbers into perspective
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Most successful sports cities in the US and Canada
Last updated: 26th December 2022 With this post, I wanted to present which cities are winning most often, among top 5 professional sports in North America: Football, Hockey, Baseball, Basketball, Soccer. Few things to have in mind: The championships won are recorded...
How Barcelona tried to replace Neymar
In the summer of 2017 Neymar left Barcelona and joined PSG, in a still record transfer fee of 222 million Euros. In this post we will look how Barça tried to replace him and if they succeeded. Please note the following: Data for season 2020-21 is accurate on...
NBA & Twitter – Success on the court vs activity on social media
When I started to think about this topic, I wanted to have a quick look how success on the court is represented on social media platforms. In our case we will look into general NBA stats and basic Twitter data. Please note the following: Player data used in this post...
Da Real MVP – Part 3: Age, draft, bio
Welcome to the last piece of the NBA MVPs series. In previous posts, we investigated MVP voting results and performance of the MVPs, individual as well as team's. Today we will have a closer look at the following: Age: do the young guys perform better than experienced...
Da Real MVP – Part 2: Performance
In the previous post, we discussed MVP votings in detail. Today we are going to dig into the following: Stats of MVPs: how they evolved through the years Other awards and selections: how often in the MVP season respective player was also a leader in some of the other...
Da Real MVP – Part 1: Voting
In these three posts series, I’ll try to present data regarding the NBA MVP winners. Award goes back to 1956, and we are going to analyze it from then to the present day. Please note the following: Data used in this post is accurate through the end of the 2019-20 NBA...