HardyBoy

^ this and this

538 shares their data for a lot of their stories on GitHub. That specific one isn't there yet, but if it doesn't show up in the next few weeks, can't hurt to send an email or tweat, bet they would share. https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data Plenty of youtube vids on how to use github, and you can load datasets directly into R (theoretically, I guess I need to watch more youtube!).

Piper, Piper, the red, red worm woke last night to the sound of the storm her words were words I sailed upon

Sending positive vibes, hopefully the time over Cuba turned this more into a storm surge threat and less of a wide scale house damaging storm due to near cat 5 wind. A lot of tornado warnings though in the ft lauderdale area...stay safe. The 11am update just said it's moving straight north, which is putting it directly over Marco Island.

Getting to watch the bills had to be a motivator for a lot of people as they evacuated (definitely was for me), so let's open some doors, couches, bar seats for those of us in the community displaced by Irma. Anything in Huntsville, AL? Also, guessing a bunch of people would want to know about groups in Atlanta.

I've never gone to OTW in my life, so it was basically hidden from me...that one person it could have helped, but missed the thread...it was me ...thank you though for pinning there, but still think it should have been in a much more prominent place as well.

Apparently my response to the first thread that got merged wasn't strong enough, so hopefully this gets some attention. Seriously, way to allow the main board to help the community. I don't want to be part of a community that treats one another this way. And before you say I'm overreacting, this is what I did in the last 21 hours after pulling an all nighter to board up my house, rescue my 3 cats and dog, all while leaving my wife and 5 month old at the airport, not knowing if I could find gas, or if the roads would be packed beyond belief and I would be stuck in a house that likely isn't making it through this, and I'm pretty sure I got step throat along the way. There was some very helpful information in that thread and if one person on this board could have been helped by this thread and wasn't because of your small rule governed moral mind, that is on you you small hearted loser. I sent my wife this text around 9 tonight after having super spotty cell service going through back road Georgia and Alabama on no sleep...what did you do today !@#$?: Got here about an hour ago...21 hours total, 16 of which was today (started at 4:20 this morning), and only took two breaks today on 5 hours of sleep, 7 total in the last 48 hours, two of which were on the plane, and the rest in the hotel with a dog that barked at every sound and extra barked at anyone walking by. https://forums.twobillsdrive.com/topic/196099-a-place-for-those-directly-in-irmas-path/

Tell us when/if you're safe. Let's support those in our community directly impacted. I'm evacuating to Huntsville, AL. Live in Ft. Lauderdale, house built in 1956, but got a new roof last year. Depending on the path, thinking minor damage or total loss. Wife and 5 month old are in Rochester (we were visiting family), I flew back Wed, pulled all nighter and jumped in car Thursday at 9am, made it to Orlando by 3pm and grabbed a hotel to wait out traffic (36 hours no sleep). Jumping back in car in a few and hoping at this time of day I zoom through leaving Orlando and Atlanta, and it's an easy 10 hour drive. Stay safe everyone, my love and thoughts are with you all, and let's stay connected here once we get back if anyone needs help cleaning up...go bills

Got about 4 hours of sleep, dog keeps barking at people walking by in the hotel, going to try and get 2 more hours, but traffic looks decent and I have 10 more hours to drive, so might take off.

Can someone explain how a roll call evacuation solidarity thread got fing consolidated into this geneneric trash thread?!?! I've been up 36 hours straight, my house literally might not be standing monday, and one of the few bright spots for me and a number of people on this board is tge buffalo bills. Whoever consolidated this thread is an fing dick, who should go bannon himself. You lack empathy sir, whoever you are.

Nice, finally, a south florida show!!! Just hope this storm isn't too bad that it impacts a show in December...fingers crossed

Driving out of Fort Lauderdale to a friend's place in Huntsville Alabama, and getting to watch the Bills is a huge motivator as I drive...go Bills!

Because slapping kids, oh wait, just the boys, is a positive tradition...ironic

A song shows you are patriotic? Wow, you might feel powerful, but very clear you have given up your power to the propogandists. This country is built upon ideas, ideals, morality and the notion that one has free will to control their own selves as long as that does not impede on other's rights. Nothing else, and anyone who goes against that is unpatriotic, period. You have allowed your tv, and the people behind it, to strip you of the ability to see those incredibly powerful ideas, and have them replaced by their talking points that you parrot back like a sheep. In their place they insert a symbol, a flag or a song, that triggers their pre-conditioned response out of you. Go watch the Manchurian Candidate (the original), the anthem your Queen of Hearts.

Yes, they need to do that!!! Throw them all in a tank, and then, tank!

How much of passing lanes is game planning, oline adjustments based on that plan and audibles when faced with a defense that will make a batted ball highly likely? I get the oline on the heals thing, but my guess is most people complaining (me included) havent the foggiest idea on proper oline technique, specifically when it comes to game planning, which is not happening in the preaeason.

They are only playing like 5% of rhe offense, and without game planning. You really need to watch one on one who wins, not how the team plays together. Especially when there is a blitz and they have no hot reads installed, because again 5% of offense no game plan. What would your posts look like with only the letters [K, T, A, N] allowed...well we know for some here it wouldn't be such a huge difference.

You gameplan to create passing lanes, so yeah, that is what it means...

Only if we play Seattle, so when we lose to them, it would have two benefits. First it would help our tie breaker odds, because that's a thing. Secondly, it would lower the draft slot of Seattle's pick, which would, using the same logic, be helpful as well... Anyway, yes I would do that trade.

Absolutely, I'm all for threads getting long, no issue there and they should naturally. However, when a thread gets long it prevents people who are new to the discussion from joining in. I can't read the 90+ pages of the Watkins thread, and honestly most of it isn't interesting enough, at least based on my interest, to engage me for that long. Also, it might be a recency bias thing, because looking at the page now, the first page is all threads that had posts today. A couple months ago that was not the case. I read this board several times a day almost all year, and there are times when there is not enough new stuff to read. Could be an off season thing, or writing this, maybe a call to action to people raising similar concerns (several in this thread) to start interesting fresh conversations to change that, and I agree Blitz, of the threads I have started, they don't typically get shut down (well except for the refs are fixing games threads from a couple years ago, which looking back was a bit much ) Anyway, sorry to hijack the thread. That back shoulder throw and catch was crazy, and the throw to O'Leary on the LBs ear with anticipation and arm strength was unreal as well.

I've had an account here since 2008ish probably, lurked a year or two before that, and this board has changed in the last year or so in terms a significant decrease in the number of sub threads discussing the same topic in different ways, and in my opinion it's for the worse. I am not advocating for redundant threads or just spamming new threads on the same topic, but a single thread with over even 10 pages is inaccessible to anyone trying to get in on the conversation. By merging and closing threads at such a high rate, you are limiting this board to the people who get in on conversations first, which are likely the people who are most active on the board. It's antithetical to the goal of a message board that encourages an open discussion with many different opinions (while ensuring those opinions are within the acceptable tone and style of the board, which is totally fine).

I didn't see it yesterday, and a lot of other people didn't see it yesterday. Let conversations start over, and don't grow a single massive thread, it prevents new people from joining and sets a single narrative. This has been a major shift in the last year, and it is making this board less spontaneous, creative and interesting.

I don't know, there are a lot of people on here that know a lot about football. I think if you played, a lot of that stuff seems obvious, but if you never played organized football, it's a totally and very interesting foreign language (I played lots of sports, but never football). I think part of it is the Bills have been disappointing for so long people aren't interested in nuance at this point. Once they start winning, I bet a lot of interesting posts with nuance from some really knowledgeable people won't devolve into fire everyone/sully said anger expressions, but for now the nuance is going to live on one way media (blog posts/podcasts).

I agree with you to a point, I have no clue what is happening in football, but I find learning how and why extremely interesting and I think the growing success of Cover1 shows I am right. The future is in the data, granularity and nuance. People who love that, they will be driving advertising revenue, both within those organizations through their roles, and through their wallets, because that is the future and where the money is. People are sick of manufactured news and pre-written cliche story lines (see espn). I don't believe that espn is struggling due to people being able to access highlights instantly...I am not going to 10 different websites to watch a 30 second highlights. They are a compiler of different sources (like the tbd main page is), amd that will always be valuable. ESPN is struggling because they create fake, sensationalized stories that they talk about non-stop, and it got old, and they deliver those stories through fluff straw man manufactured outrage takes. This goes against what cord cutters want (I cut the cord in 2012, and the thought of having to pay espn for the level of quality of 85% of their non-live sport broadcasts is more than enough motivation to keep me away from cable for good). LeBetard show got where it was by being different, so will Cover1. People are sick of hot takes, we want nuance, and excellence in our niche, and that niche is large. Cover1 delivers that, and am really pumped to see them growing and gaining traction!

That's the truth!