Matt
@mathzero
Data analyst and postgrad student. Tweeting mainly about tennis, cricket and nerdy stats stuff. All views my own, or plagiarised from someone smarter than me.
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How much did home advantage help Tiafoe against Nadal last night? ATP data suggests that home advantage increases your odds of winning by 10%, on average. In the US, this is closer to 30%. Analysis here: link.medium.com/akJBqdBh6sb #USOpen2022
Everything we call civilization was invented in the last 500 generations—way too short a time for our bodies and brains to re-optimize. We're a bunch of forest primates in a totally unnatural environment, trying our little best. Someone needs to give our species a hug.
This is a macroscopic view of Normandy's beach sands. About 4% of it, is magnetic shrapnel that has been broken down over the decades into sand-sized chunks, coming from the fierce fighting on D-Day 76 years ago #today buff.ly/2LYTpCH
This is your regular reminder that macOS has built-in bulk file renaming and it's insanely simple to use. 🙌🍎
This is badly misjudged. People should maintain social distancing, which is what these people are doing. We need to maintain public support for fundamental behaviour change which requires the authorities to focus on genuinely bad behaviour.
Despite posts yesterday highlighting issues of people still visiting the #PeakDistrict despite government guidance, the message is still not getting through. @DerPolDroneUnit have been out at beauty spots across the county, and this footage was captured at #CurbarEdge last night.
Consider: millions of years ago our antecedents gave a massive sacrifice of their left hemisphere. We lost a tremendous amount of short term memory and replaced it with Broca’s, Wernicke & the phonological loop. But why? So we can—talk. Thus chimpanzees can do this—we can’t:
Not sure there's anything that brings me more joy in life than making podcasts with these two people. We'd love to keep doing it, and hopefully spreading a bit of that joy. If you'd like to support the endeavour, here's how: kickstarter.com/projects/thete…
I just backed The Tennis Podcast in 2020 on @Kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/thete…
24 years ago Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates celebrated the Windows 95 launch I broke down the film
This is a great piece on how much harder test batting has become in the past few years. Motion that test batting averages be measured in standard deviations from the current combined average for all test players.
In Test cricket, wickets are now falling more frequently this year than anytime since 1911. Last year, averages were lower than anytime since 1957. A piece on the new age of bowlers in Test cricket and what's going on telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2019/0…
Fail to the thief
Wow 👇🏻
In 1999, when Federer played his first Grand Slam match at the French Open, Norway's Christian Ruud was in the draw with him. Twenty years later, the only Ruud in the draw with him is Christian's son Casper nytimes.com/2019/05/24/spo…
economist.com/graphic-detail… This is so good. And not just because the graph legend includes the words "standard deviations from average bullshit score"
Here's a video of a Chimpanzee using Instagram. It's eye-opening. instagram.com/p/Bwf080_Bfby/
Excellent debate going on here. Yes there are huge issues with a 'lucky loser' format, but the cancellation of a SF match is just *so bad* for fans and the tournament that perhaps we need at least to consider radical options
Truly think it's time for tennis to at least consider possibility of allowing a defeated opponent to advance if the player who defeats them is unable to play next round. Would open up other cans of worms but the show really needs to go on. Khachanov-Fed would have been good too
recently I started drawing a series called ✨Strange Planet✨ here is a thread of these comics Instagram.com/nathanwpylestr…
After A level geography I thought coastal erosion was going to be the defining challenge of my generation.
Truly think it's time for tennis to at least consider possibility of allowing a defeated opponent to advance if the player who defeats them is unable to play next round. Would open up other cans of worms but the show really needs to go on. Khachanov-Fed would have been good too
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