Playoff scenarios, sim leagues, soccer maps, and sports-analytics rabbit holes.
“I am a sporting man. I always give them a fair chance to get away.” — Winston Churchill
Playoff math, sim-league results, and the sports-analytics rabbit holes that don't fit anywhere else. A home for the interactive tools and data projects as they come together.
Projects
Every country to ever reach a FIFA World Cup finals, mapped and color-coded by confederation. Click a ball for its years, or search a year to light up that tournament.
Open the map →Every nation to ever appear at a Rugby World Cup — men’s 1987–2027 and women’s 1991–2033. Toggle between the two competitions and click any ball for the years they qualified.
Open the map →An atlas of soccer grounds worldwide — 730+ stadiums across 45 leagues and 5 confederations, with a tracker for the ones you have visited.
Open the atlas →Exploring the possibility of several Spanish sides.
See the split →A college hoops game I'm playing and building alternative datasets for — custom stats and angles you won't find in the box score.
Enter the game →Hex codes for all 209 FIFA national teams across six confederations. Click any swatch to copy — a designer's reference for anyone drawing kits or crests.
See the palette →Exploring the possibility of a college football playoff starting in 1936.
See the bracket →Where has Sean gone to vicariously enjoy the sporting life?
See the trips →In progress
Scenario explorer for clinch-and-eliminate situations across the leagues I follow.
In the worksA browsable dataset of every NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, and MLS team and where they play.
In the worksFollow the movement of the NHL from the Original Six to the 31-team league it is today
In the worksTrack how today's NHL players started their journey.
In the worksThe sports sites, stats archives, and rabbit holes I have collected over the years — many are two decades old, so the ones that went offline now point at an archived copy.