Last night, Giants OF Heliot Ramos smashed a ball with an exit velocity of 107.9 mph and a launch angle of 33°. If you aren't well-versed in Statcast metrics, those numbers may not mean anything to you. But you know this kind of hit when you see
(Graphics, scorecards, and videos are best viewed on web) Rory McIlory won the 2026 Masters to become only the fourth player to win back-to-back Green Jackets. As amazing as that was to watch, there won't be much discussion of Rory here in the Garbage Time recap today. For
Hello, friends. It's Masters week which means it's time to pull an absurd amount of data and see what kinds of crazy and interesting stuff we can find. This is the third article in our Masters series, the first goes into some of the wildest scorecards
Hello, friends. It's Masters week which means it's time to pull an absurd amount of data and see what kinds of crazy and interesting stuff we can find. This is the second article in our Masters series, the first goes into some of the wildest scorecards
Holes Best score Times Who did it 2 holes –4 4× Phil Mickelson, 2010 R3 Webb Simpson, 2018 R4 Sam Burns, 2024 R1 Dustin Johnson, 2009 R4 3 holes –5 3× Phil Mickelson, 2010 R3 Sam Burns, 2024 R1 Dustin Johnson, 2009 R4 4 holes –5 12× Luke Donald, 2005
(Graphics, scorecards, and videos are best viewed on web) A couple weeks after I whined about a robotic Cam Young victory at The Players, Gary Woodland won this week in one of the most emotional victories in recent memory. Look at this – Min Woo Lee is hyping up the crowd
Note: Tables & graphics are best viewed on the web version of the site. Round 1 is done and it delivered some incredible moments, like VCU's flutist single-handedly bringing them back from a 19-point deficit against UNC. she is playing the hell out of that flute 🫡 [image or
While I was messing around in my March Madness data model that is sure to lose to all of my nieces and nephews, I got distracted and decided to look up the most absurd stat lines of the season for players participating in this year's NCAA tournament. Because
Cameron Young won The Players Championship yesterday. The bare-bones sentence above is apparently all that went through his brain as he did it. His reaction to the biggest professional accomplishment of his life was... "Ok." I am conflicted because he was objectively doing very cool stuff yesterday. An
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As a spectator, the island* green on the 17th hole at TPC Sawgrass has the most obvious appeal of any golf hole in the world. I don't know if it's the best hole, I'll let others litigate that. But I am a simple man.
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As we approach golf's fifth major [citation needed], we decided to pull as much TPC data as possible. We pulled every round by every player since 2001, below you'll see the stupidest and/or funniest stuff we found in the data. Let's start with
Hey folks! Welcome to Garbage Time Sports, the newsletter that at least one person asked for. I'm a data analyst that loves digging into statistics that I don't widely see represented. Most of the time, that looks like dumb stuff that I am interested in, like