Waiting for the 538 real model about Senate and Governor races...

[GaussLaw]

Personally, I find 538's current set articles way more interesting than yet another update of "who do we think is gonna win today!!!!1"

Agreed.  The World Cup series was fantastic.

538 needs a sports section, and it definitely needs a Life/Science section.

[GaussLaw]

Personally, I find 538's current set articles way more interesting than yet another update of "who do we think is gonna win today!!!!1"

Agreed.  The World Cup series was fantastic.

538 needs a sports section, and it definitely needs a Life/Science section.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/sports/

They have an affiliation with ESPN--even though most of the FiveThirtyEight articles probably fly over the heads of a large share of ESPN's viewership.

Their sports section could probably be stronger--Nate first got people's attention by developing PECOTA, and has repeatedly exhibited that he's incredibly knowledgeable about baseball. However, their NFL season previews are pretty thorough, as was their article about Tim Duncan's value to the Spurs over the course of his career.

But, articles about measuring the speed of NFL teams, and then going on to say that it really isn't all that important, is kind of a head-scratcher.

I know 538 has a sports section.  I was just praising the new 538 format in which it covers more than just politics.

[GaussLaw]

Personally, I find 538's current set articles way more interesting than yet another update of "who do we think is gonna win today!!!!1"

Maybe they have a time and place before, but the fact that very few of the articles are about politics when we're two months away from an election is shameful. And I find it hard to believe that people who are big enough political junkies to have tens of thousands of posts on the Atlas Forum are more interested in rating burritos as opposed to political analysis.

I guess that's what happens to a site when it's owned by ESPN. I mean, it's not like political junkies are the only audience FiveThirtyEight is trying to serve. I'm fine with the site as now it is because politics isn't my only avid interest. I'd probably end up rather unhinged if that were my only focus. Burritos and sports are a welcome diversion, and even the most politically obsessed posters here would probably find Mona Chalabi's articles interesting. I don't think I'd visit FiveThirtyEight daily if it just rehashed political updates constantly with only minor tweaking; my distaste of tireless repitition in the news is the same reason why I only find it necessary to visit Upshot once or twice a week.

Yeah, but I check Upshot Senate rankings daily, as I take them pretty seriously (sorry, KCDem).  But there's only so much original content you can have daily for political stuff.