Completely unusable website for me running a relative recent version of Chrome on an older Ubuntu. Scroll functionality completely broken.

The irony isn't lost on me.

When I interview a candidate for a hacker-like position, I provide give them the problem constraints and hand them my computer.

I tell them to lookup anything they want.

The portion of time spent on Google directly correlates to their success.

If we can put a rover the size of a VW beetle on Mars, we can definitely put a couple of these on it too.

>because those sports require a combination of physical ability and problem solving

I don't understand. Are you saying popular sports like soccer don't require problem solving?

I can see how team sports are interesting, I'm just not that into them. They definitely require problem solving.

Check out StatDNA

I write for MLSsoccer.com and I do some very similar types of analysis.

Here is something recent including similar network graphics and player average position. http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/article/2012/04/10/central-win...

I've done a bunch of stuff with centrality and other stuff, but that isn't exactly my target audience at the moment.

Wow, Bangladesh.

Population greater than Russia. Area slightly smaller than Montana.

Conversely, if you comment digital goods into software, is it still "computer code"?

Anybody interested in advanced analytics for soccer (a fledgling industry), check out my blog: www.centralwinger.com

I understand the embarrassment, but this isn't how science is supposed to work.

If we can't have glorious failures, we can't have glorious successes.

Well, that's kind of the point. It seems that enough of their coworkers believe that this wasn't even a glorious failure. It was a dumb failure (in their eyes).