Re hot wheels, the Unleashed games (2 at least, can’t remember 1) have a bunch of really cool settings for how much drive assist etc you want to put on. They’ll still get knocked off sometimes but my three year old has a pretty good time with it.

Matches read from left (qualifying final) to right (grand final) and scores read from bottom to top.

Big wedges = goals, small wedges = behinds, gaps = quarter breaks.

The "tilt" of a chart responds to the margin at that point.

There is no such thing as a plea of innocence in my court. A plea of innocence is guilty of wasting my time.

Do people over 18 need to undertake a civics test to vote? Any sort of test of where they get their information? Of basic cognition?

Feels like the emperor could use some parenting tips too imho

There are also great pieces on quantifying goals with/against the run of play, a more critical lens to last week's AFL reporting on GWS' home-ground accuracy advantage, and some actual numbers to the theoretical 20th team discussion.

thisweekinfootball.com/twif/round-1...

While Neale and Cripps have enjoyed a varied diet over the last 9 seasons

The crows are getting a great australian bite taken out of them at ruck contests this year

Meanwhile we find Matt Flynn chumming the waters of the Swan with alarming regularity

any true crusader kings 2 player knows seniority is an absolute dogshit-tier succession law

This comes from my latest piece for This Week In Football thisweekinfootball.com/twif/round-1...

I dive into ruck craft for the first time since the Murrumbeena Under 12s for This Week In Football thisweekinfootball.com/twif/round-1...

70% of the Australian media has been dedicated to covering a single poisoning case for god knows how long now

Is that really living though