B. David Tyler

Disney's ESPN to acquire NFL media assets in major deal ESPN has reached a deal with the league to acquire its NFL Network and other media assets in exchange for the NFL taking a 10% equity stake in the sports network.

Now the NFL can FINALLY get some air time on ESPN.

www.cnbc.com/2025/08/05/d...

Only by thinking that writing a research paper would only take "weeks" could one conclude that this product has the promised value.

The initial estimate of job change for a month is based on the growth or loss of jobs at the businesses that have reported their data. Generally, BLS assumes that the employment situation at businesses that had reported is representative of the situation at those that had not yet reported. BLS continues to collect outstanding reports from the businesses in the sample as it prepares a second and then a third estimate for the month. With each subsequent estimate, more businesses have provided their information. In 2012, the average collection rate at the time of the third estimate for a month was 94.6 percent. (See chart 1.)

Why do the jobs numbers get revised?

our markets and policymakers want data NOW but employer data dribbles in over months

1st estimate is based on the 75% of employers who respond promptly

Updates occur as more data rolls in: 95% response rate by final revision 1/N

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This is great. Useful to share with my undergrads (and my own kids!).

And she did it while on the move! Damn, I can't be that concise and articulate after multiple rounds of rewrites.

Agreed. That would also allow them to persist even if the first row were deleted.

An improvement each time!

What about 1 more improvement?
=ROW()-ROW(A$1)
where row 1 is your header row

Yes, you need to copy the formula when adding new rows (unless you're in a Table), but unlike SEQUENCE:
- Allows sorting
- Allows deleting first task
- Can work in a Table

One more day left to get your talk submissions in. Also last chance to show this to someone you know has a good story but doesn't realize they should tell it!

Team valuation between 21.3x - 42.6x!!

(reposting for the alt text)

He started with basic questions (e.g., valuation of women's football teams). But, as he pulled on the threads, the emerging details created a story that was far more fascinating.

Watch for more dominos.

There is A LOT more to his work than what's in this first article.

The author is recent grad Ben Luckner. This is the 1st article to come out of his Honors Thesis (for which I was lucky enough to be an advisor).

His research was OUTSTANDING. He pored over financial statements reconstructed cash movements to uncover obfuscated truths in teams' financial pictures.

A snippet from the article. Header: Bottom line To be clear, European women’s teams still hold long-term promise. <emphasis>The current valuations, though, are tethered to assets they don’t control, revenue that isn’t recurring and holding structures that obscure financial exposure.</emphasis> For investors looking to place capital in the space, these shouldn’t just be red flags; they should be bright, flashing warning signs.

Financial shenanigans in English women's football (soccer). www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/202...

But not as dark as the rich cocoa taste of new Dark Chocolate Kunafa

LinkedIn post from Philip Morris International. Main photo with text: "Philip Morris International recognizes the importance of taking risks and learning from mistakes--two concepts that are at the heart of innovation." Woman in photo is listed as Moira Gilchrist, Chief Communications Officer, PMI Text of the post: We're embracing change. We're taking risks. We're disrupting an industry we created and leaping into the heart of innovation. So says our Chief Communication Officer, @Moira Gilchrist, who knows that innovation is not without its risks.

If you're a cigarette company, maybe don't lead with "Philip Morris International recognizes the importance of taking risks...".

(I get what they're saying here, and business risks and product risks are completely different entities, but using that language is a questionable marketing decision.)

Dubai Chocolate flavor is the new Pumpkin Spice

When your python code takes 19 minutes to read in a data Table from Excel, it's time to have a conversation with the client about their data storage approach.
#ExcelIsNotADatabase

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Or they are, but ICE are even worse than faculty at completing their required trainings

I woke up one morning in 2019 to find this car parked outside my house. To this day, I regret not going door-to-door in my neighborhood to meet the person that, clearly, would have been my best friend.

A Chevy Volt car with the license plate "STEVOLT!"

The best license plate I have ever seen
#ArrestedDevelopment

SCORE act

I stumbled on a place like that in London! It was amazing. I was barely able to drag my kid and her friend out of there

2025 MLS Analytics Survey — American Soccer Analysis Every year, we update the State of MLS Analytics by putting teams into tiers based upon how many analytics staff they have. However, the number of analytics staff members doesn’t necessarily say a...

We had our say on the state of analytics in MLS. Now the staffers get theirs'.

Here's the 2025 MLS analytics survey: www.americansocceranalysis.com/home/2025/7/21/2025-mls-analytics-survey

For the first time, we have two entries to Tier 0. The State of Analytics in MLS is here: www.americansocceranalysis.com/home/2025/7/20/state-of-mls-analytics-july-2025

During my physical today, my doctor mentioned the ridiculousness of the low WNBA salaries.

Maybe he's just plugged in, or maybe this issue has more reach than I'd expected.

Or he follows @wagesofwins.bsky.social.

How about a push? Win seems to strong

As you promised, the show was fun! I appreciated the Hawaiian shirt tip.

Amazing age variation in the audience, and a pretty consistent distribution. A bit right skewed, for sure, but large quantities of ppl in each age bin.

So You Got the Starter Pack. Now What? Pull in recent data, enhance your analysis, and explore the CFBD API using Python.

Just dropped a new blog post for folks using the Starter Pack:

🧠 How to go beyond the CSVs
🐍 How to use the CFBD Python package
📡 How to pull up-to-date CFB data via the API

👉 “So You Got the Starter Pack. Now What?”

I'd pay big money to take andragogy lessons from the faculty who know how to indoctrinate their students. Clearly, they've figured out how to be effective in the classroom in ways that have eluded the rest of us.**

**Or, at least, eluded me and every professor I've ever met.

This product exists? It seems it would get a lot of use for kids' snow boots in the winter!