Ryan Best
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How Massive The NFL Really Is, In 4 Charts
The NFL has had quite an eventful year. In fact, the 2022 season has been characterized by a series of controversies that, when taken together, seem like a micr… → Read More
How Our 2022 Midterm Forecasts Performed
Let’s get this out of the way up front: There was a wide gap between the perception of how well polls and data-driven forecasts did in 2022 and the reality of h… → Read More
Can You Make Winter Less Dark?
We hate that it’s dark and hate changing clocks. Would permanent daylight saving time fix anything? What about ending daylight saving time altogether? Try your hand at optimizing daylight all year long. → Read More
A Red Wave In Florida. A Blue Riptide In Michigan.
Where Democratic and Republican House candidates outperformed their district’s partisanship in the 2022 midterm elections. → Read More
2022 Election: Live Results And Updates
Fourteen House seats have flipped in the midterms so far, with a net gain of +8 seats for Republicans — over the +5 threshold they’d need to take control of the… → Read More
2022 Election: Live Analysis and Results
We have a third House seat that flipped to Republicans: Tennessee’s 5th District. Which House and Senate seats have changed hands so far Races that ABC News has… → Read More
2022 Election: Live Analysis and Results
The GOP line in our House balance-of-power chart is creeping toward that majority line, with a current count of 180 for Republicans and 120 for Democrats. → Read More
2022 Election: Live Analysis and Results
Peter Welch’s win in Vermont’s Senate race officially gets the Democrats on the board — but no Senate seats have flipped, and there’s a lot of races yet to call… → Read More
2022 Election: Live Analysis and Results
First projections are in from states with 7 p.m. poll closings. With Senate races in South Carolina and Indiana now projected for Republicans, the current balan… → Read More
The Best NFL Receivers, According To ESPN Analytics
Receiver ratings from ESPN Analytics use player-tracking data to evaluate every route a pass catcher runs and scores his performance in three phases of the game. → Read More
Build An NBA Contender With Our Roster-Shuffling Machine
Move players around and make “trades” to change FiveThirtyEight’s NBA predictions. → Read More
2022-23 NHL Predictions
FiveThirtyEight's 2022-23 NHL forecast predicts the winner of each hockey game and calculates each team's chances of advancing to the playoffs and winning the Stanley Cup. → Read More
The Seats Republicans Could Flip To Win The House In 2022
The U.S. House districts represented by Democrats most likely to swing toward Republicans and the GOP-held seats most likely to flip toward Democrats in the 2022 election. → Read More
Explore The Ways Republicans Or Democrats Could Win The Midterms
Choose whether a Republican or Democrat will win each race in the 2022 midterm elections and we’ll recalculate each party’s chances of winning control of Congress. → Read More
The 6 Political Neighborhoods Of Los Angeles
Politics in Los Angeles are as complicated and knotty as its highway system. L.A. has so much inequality over so much space that its residents often want wildly… → Read More
Where Democrats And Republicans Differ On Gun Control
How Democrats and Republicans have responded to polls on gun-control measures, such as requiring background checks, banning assault-style weapons and allowing teachers to carry guns. → Read More
States Aren’t Waiting For The Supreme Court To Rule On Abortion
On Monday night, Politico published a draft opinion from the Supreme Court that indicates a five-justice conservative majority plans to strike down Roe v. Wade … → Read More
How Redistricting Affects The Battle For State Legislatures
Redistricting changed the electoral calculus in several battleground states: Some legislative chambers got more competitive, while other previously contested chambers got sewn up for one party. → Read More
The Lasting Legacy Of Redlining
To better understand present-day housing discrimination, we looked at 138 formerly redlined cities and found most were still segregated -- just like they were designed to be. → Read More
Our 51 Best (And Weirdest) Charts Of 2021
This year, our visual journalists told stories of the pandemic, political gridlock and the world of sports. → Read More