The Spade: A Football Analytics Newsletter
Ray CarpenterDigging up football data visualizations
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Step with me into the future. We’re covering the most advanced, the most puzzling, the most complicated plays in NFL history today.
The two quarterback offense.
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The Tale of Two Fourth Place Finishes
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Everyone’s focused on last Thursday’s NFL schedule release for the 2026 season so that’s what I’m going to cover today. There’s tons of great material already out there on the league-wide outlook so today I’m going...
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Data engineer, writing about football on a newsletter here called The Spade and about golf on a newsletter here called The Club.
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