Nick Wan

I’m in AZ until the end of March if anyone wants to meet up or go to a game

I got you brother

Drive on down bwj, got a great seat and we can talk about the sensation and perception of baseball for all 9 innings

Closing out my offseason watching the Super Bowl in Peru, enjoying a sandwich from la lucha and going over notes for first meetings at spring training

Life’s pretty good!

They just might

Not the onion

See ya down there

À slice of perfect plum cake

you're doomscrolling I'm plumposting we are not the same

Here for a wedding. I can’t fit machu pichu in before ST starts unfortunately so will have to come back next time to do more sight seeing!

I’m in Peru!

Try backpack battles. But honestly, if you are headed down this path, you might like teamfight tactics (which you’ve probably seen me play before)

There’s also really weird games. Like tingus goose. Which I loved but idk if many would like that game

That’s one of the og rogue like turn based games!

Which is why I recommended backpack battles! Has a little more depth and exploration in builds

I always found it odd that playing hockey at altitude didn’t grant more of a home field advantage. The spread in basketball is so much larger than hockey, both sports deal with road game back to backs through teams in the Rockies, both sports require a lot of sprinting — one has a lot more contact

How many seasons are represented?

So the other thing to keep in mind is that these are based on betting markets. So these are something like "perceived" park factors or something like that. But generally the collective betting public is pretty good on average.

What Goodreads alternatives are y'all using? I deleted my account a while ago and I'm curious what others are using

Cool to see the top of each sport showing a real impact of playing at altitude (Colorado teams, teams that play in the Rockies)

To a lesser extent, teams in more western time zones get a bump. When you mess with sleep/eat/practice schedules, games are definitely harder

For baseball folks: this shouldn’t be entirely conflated with park factors, but there’s definitely some park factorish things in there (COL at the top, NYY not far behind)

Neat graph from @statsinthewild.bsky.social on home advantage

queueing up for cheese 🧀

Santa Clara this year

“Are you here for the Super Bowl?”
No I’m visiting my parents
“Are you taking them to the Super Bowl?”
No, they are moving
“Aw, well it’d be nice if you did”

WHY AM I GETTING GUILT TRIPPED INTO GOING TO THE SUPER BOWL???

TAA 1 - Advanced Metrics that Matter - Premiere at PitchCon!

Oh hey. That’s cool

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These look tasty!

Ahh a little jel of everyone going

more food pics in the discord pls

That’s my goat

a snow covered crosswalk with a row of houses in the background

a cleared path in the crosswalk now with a shovel on the side

i'm doing my part. now this crosswalk in my neighborhood is usable 🫡

This over the next 10 days

Great American ballpark covered in snow

Kind of cool to see snow covering a big league park