The NFL Draft: Finding the Talent
While flipping through USA Today’s take on the NFL Draft, I noticed a lot of their material was based on numbers and statistics. The consensus shows that the bigger the state, the more athletes are produced, usually for the reason that the state has more schools and programs.
Almost every sports freak has that burning desire to know the statistics to everything about their sports. Even in fantasy leagues, numbers mean everything. The numbers don’t lie. The USA Today even put together a compilation of the 34 biggest busts in the NFL Draft since 1988 by using their career statistics to determine the player as a bust.
Statistics are a story within themselves. They tell the good and bad of a player’s performance on the field of play. Statistics also play a role not only with players but fans as well.
Our story, which will cover the century long agony of Cubs fans; can have various aspects of statistics. Some stats we can use are; how many Cubs fans jumped off a building after they were swept for the second consecutive year? Or how many fans denounced their fandom in the Cubs? Or how many people are actually optimistic about the Cubs getting to the World Series? And no, this does not include the number of Cubs players buying their way to the Fall Classic.
Broadcast students can create charts and tables displaying statistics of the data needed for the story. And of course look good on camera; while we print journalists do most of the grunge work.
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