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With multiple Tier 1 and marquee games left out of featured windows and a decidedly mixed SNF slate, this is one of the weirder #nfl schedules I can remember, to the point I don't even know how the league would define success at scheduling with flexing in mind. https://www.morganwick.com/2026/05/assessing-the-2026-nfl-schedule-from-a-flex-scheduling-perspective/ #dablog

In part due to circumstances beyond my control, this is not one of my better attempts at "what the #nfl schedule should look like", with a stadium conflict I couldn't figure out how to avoid and a potentially disastrous outcome for a Tier 3 matchup. https://www.morganwick.com/2026/05/what-the-2026-nfl-schedule-should-look-like/ #dablog

Tipping picks isn't ruining the draft experience. It's rejecting the facade that what the #nfl presents on TV is the actual draft. https://www.morganwick.com/2026/04/tipping-picks-is-a-rejection-of-the-nfls-potemkin-draft/ #dablog

Short of promotion and relegation, the perfect solution to #nba tanking doesn't exi- https://www.morganwick.com/2026/04/continuing-the-quest-for-a-solution-for-nba-tanking/ #dablog

The #nba tanking debate has heated up again this season, but the real heart of the issue might lie in a growing tension between the structure of the league and the nature of the sport. https://www.morganwick.com/2026/04/what-is-the-solution-to-tanking-in-the-nba-if-there-is-one/ #dablog

Bill Belichick's Pro Football Hall of Fame snub has resulted in increased attention on the Hall of Fame's dysfunctional voting process. Will the Hall take notice? Plus, comments on the more interesting developments involving active Hall of Fame candidates. https://www.morganwick.com/2026/02/2026-cantonmetrics-offseason-snapshot-what-will-the-hall-of-fames-reaction-be-to-the-belichick-backlash/ #nfl #dablog

As this Seahawks-Niners game enters the fourth quarter, here's why it's the Saturday night game and Ravens-Steelers is the Sunday nighter instead of the other way around. https://www.morganwick.com/2026/01/did-the-nfl-get-the-week-18-schedule-right/ #nfl #dablog

It's a Christmas Eve miracle: not only did I complete my rundown of the Week 18 schedule *before* the Week 17 games started, it might be my most complete and accurate one yet! https://www.morganwick.com/2025/12/nfl-flexible-scheduling-watch-week-16-3/ #nfl #dablog

Some more well-developed thoughts on last week's flexes and whether they prove that the Jaguars are the #nfl's red-headed stepchild. Plus, the league could be looking at a bounty of potential Week 18 standalone games, but could that be a double-edged sword? https://www.morganwick.com/2025/12/nfl-flexible-scheduling-watch-week-15-3/ #dablog

This Fourth of July, let's start a rebirth of democracy by recognizing what went wrong with the political establishment and how to fix the system to work better without the deficiencies that gave rise to the establishment. https://www.morganwick.com/2025/07/diagnosing-democracy-part-iii-the-partys-over-now-lets-get-it-right-this-time/ #dablog #uspolitics

The #nfl has no shortage of potential draft hosts without resorting to regular Super Bowl hosts or past draft hosts. But it may be starting to run low on places it's *easy* to hold the draft in. https://www.morganwick.com/2025/05/where-will-the-nfl-draft-go-next/ #dablog

The Pro Football Hall of Fame only barely cut back on last year's explosion of nominated players - and tended to cut the players with the best resumes while keeping the ones with the worst. https://www.morganwick.com/2024/09/cantonmetrics-2025-preliminary-nominees/ #nfl #dablog

Looking at the Pro Football Hall of Fame's changes to their induction process, some are understandable and might even make the process more comprehensible, but others seem arbitrary and will probably exacerbate the Hall's existing issues. https://www.morganwick.com/2024/08/assessing-the-impact-of-the-pro-football-hall-of-fames-new-selection-process/ #dablog #nfl

No matter whether or not Joe Biden ends up stepping aside, the #democrats may well be throwing away the election, and with it American #democracy - and the #biden mess perfectly encapsulates why. https://www.morganwick.com/2024/07/diagnosing-democracy-part-ii-how-the-democrats-crisis-explains-democracys-crisis/ #dablog

I mostly finished this three months ago, but for various reasons didn't publish it until now. But figuring out what went wrong with American #democracy is more important than my procrastination. https://www.morganwick.com/2024/06/diagnosing-democracy-part-i-the-real-problem-with-jon-stewart/ #dablog

Last year showed that, with the new restrictions on flexing, the #nfl needed to take a lot more care in constructing the schedule to maximize the chance that, if it wanted to flex in a game, it could. It... didn't entirely succeed. https://www.morganwick.com/2024/05/assessing-the-2024-nfl-schedule-from-a-flex-scheduling-perspective/ #dablog

Last year the #nfl found it nearly impossible to flex in games. How should they arrange the schedule to best set themselves up for a successful season? https://www.morganwick.com/2024/05/what-the-2024-nfl-schedule-should-look-like/ #dablog

Every time I learn something new about the #nba rights negotiations I end up supremely confused - and wondering if it marks the beginning of the end for Warner Bros. Discovery as we know it. https://www.morganwick.com/2024/05/how-the-nba-and-comcast-might-be-about-to-destroy-warner-bros-discovery/ #dablog

The prospect of "presidential-election-style" coverage of the #nfl draft might be more realistic than you might think, albeit with a number of caveats. https://www.morganwick.com/2024/05/what-to-make-of-the-nfls-experiment-with-putting-the-draft-on-broadcast-part-3/ #dablog

Caitlin Clark's arrival marks a major opportunity for the #wnba, right as they enter a new round of contract negotiations. It's critical that the league take full advantage of it. https://www.morganwick.com/2024/04/the-wnba-is-at-a-crossroads/ #dablog

Something relatively frivolous that I'm claiming to have totally posted in March: what 32-team divisional alignments could look like for America's major sports. https://www.morganwick.com/2024/03/what-would-and-should-32-team-divisional-alignments-look-like-for-the-nba-and-mlb/ #nba #mlb #dablog

Über unseren Wechsel auf Mastodon gibt es nun auch einen ausführlicheren Beitrag im #DAblog. Dafür werfen wir einen kleinen Blick zurück auf unsere Aktivität auf Twitter und nach vorne auf unseren Neustart hier bei Mastodon: https://dablog.hypotheses.org/13850

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Über unseren Wechsel auf Mastodon gibt es nun auch einen ausführlicheren Beitrag im #DAblog. Dafür werfen wir einen kleinen Blick zurück auf unsere Aktivität auf Twitter und nach vorne auf unseren Neustart hier bei Mastodon: https://dablog.hypotheses.org/13850

#Archive20