via Well, I suppose this is about as good a predictor as you could conjure. I dig it for the topicality and symmetry, but the quality that most defines this chart, I’d say, isapophenia, the tendency to see meaningful patterns or connections in random or meaningless data.
Tag Archives: sports
The Times breaks down Mariano Rivera’s cutter. [Infographic of the Week]
An impressive and amazing accounting and analysis of MLB’s most dominant closer. Even if you don’t watch or care much about baseball, the incredible graphic depiction of Rivera’s signature ‘cutter’ pitch is fascinating. How do they do it, how do they know the velocity, trajectory, and type of each and every pitch he threw last [...]