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Jon Bois is remarkable. I never would have imagined that my wife could watch 20m youtube videos on sports statistics trivia but she would get excited when a new

• Balgair 4y ago
  I agree completely. Jon, if you're reading this, thank you. He, and all of Secret Base, have deepened my love of sports in just strange and amazing ways. I also never thought that I would honestly look forward to hour long episodes of 80's power-point-like graphics with bad jazz on the statistical careers of old ballplayers. The Monte-Carlo simulations he does are just somehow perfect for me. And I have no idea why. The episode on Barry Bonds playing his whole career with a holographic bat is a tour-de-force on how to approach statistics and simulations in a way middle-schoolers can get on broad with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwMfT2cZGHg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwMfT2cZGHg It's like public access television locked a savant into an library coding camp basement with outdated software and gave him carte blanche to broadcast his cavernous mind to retirement homes at 2pm on a Sunday. It's so strange, deep, and wonderful. "Astronauts don't bring their wallets"
  • mrguyorama 4y ago
    I think it's important to point out, and I think Jon would agree, that he isn't trained in stats and he uses it as a tool for entertainment and emphasis, rather than rigorous analysis. I love everything he has ever done. The Breaking Madden series was genuinely inspiring to me and has caused me to pick up football video games and learn more about the game. I nearly stayed up all night watching all 7 hours of their masterpiece on the Atlanta Falcons