Although as an Englishman I have no interest in American sports in themselves, I often (though not always) find Nate’s writing sufficiently diverting that I’m happy to read a whole article about baseball or NFL despite only understanding about 70% of it. And that’s a tribute to the writing quality in Silver Bulletin.
FWIW, i dont follow sports at all (like, 0%) but i do at least try to read SB sports articles b/c i always learn stuff from it. Gambling lingo mostly, but also "common knowledge" sport stuff that everyone seems to know except me. learning feels good. nice work, steady on
It’s not that I’m not interested in sports. I’m just not interested in the NBA and the NFL is dead to me (I live in San Diego). I do like baseball and I will say I was disappointed. The Yankees the Dodgers even the Tigers were all in a very exciting playoff series. Nothing from silver bulletin about this. I have even seen pictures of Nate wearing both a Yankees cap and a Tigers cap. Somehow I missed the origin story of the sports model being a baseball model, which makes all of this even more confusing. It seems to me like there’s a lot of potential content about baseball. I mean, what do you do if you’re the ownership of the Rockies and you’re in the NL West with 1 excellent team and three that are above average? It is not easy to lose 75% of your games in a season, but the Rockies almost made it. Is it strategically valuable to invest or do you just sit it out until the winds change? I’m going to keep subscribing and hope sports content I am interested shows up in the future.
Thanks. I’ll leave it all on for now even though there are some sports I’d prefer to actively avoid.
I’ll also confirm that getting email blasts about certain topics do cause people to unsubscribe. There’s a particular country covered by TFP that’s been so over saturated they’ve remarkably turned me from a supporter to somebody who literally never wants to hear about it again, and I’m canceling my paid subscription because I just can’t take it anymore. Which is a long way of saying your readers appreciate the options and thank you.
I am a sports and politics fan. I subscribe because I love the way you approach problem solving. I recommend that you expand to other areas like the environment and healthcare.
I love the sports coverage, even if it’s not narrowly focused on the sports I follow. I’ll say I wouldn’t mind more of the miscellaneous content, especially on AI and the rise of prediction markets. But in the end, I guess I’m mainly here for the politics. If the news cycle is popping off, I want sizzling takes!
I love Baseball and Football, but to give you an idea of how much I follow basketball, the last NBA game I watched in full was the Washington Bullets playing the Orlando Magic (I was given free tickets).
I enjoy both. I like the way you focus on politics when it is timely, and although I'm not a huge sports fan, I enjoy reading about the methodology of your models and your predictions.
Although as an Englishman I have no interest in American sports in themselves, I often (though not always) find Nate’s writing sufficiently diverting that I’m happy to read a whole article about baseball or NFL despite only understanding about 70% of it. And that’s a tribute to the writing quality in Silver Bulletin.
Kinda one and the same for me. Sports are my diversion from politics. When my teams are losing I turn to politics.
FWIW, i dont follow sports at all (like, 0%) but i do at least try to read SB sports articles b/c i always learn stuff from it. Gambling lingo mostly, but also "common knowledge" sport stuff that everyone seems to know except me. learning feels good. nice work, steady on
It’s not that I’m not interested in sports. I’m just not interested in the NBA and the NFL is dead to me (I live in San Diego). I do like baseball and I will say I was disappointed. The Yankees the Dodgers even the Tigers were all in a very exciting playoff series. Nothing from silver bulletin about this. I have even seen pictures of Nate wearing both a Yankees cap and a Tigers cap. Somehow I missed the origin story of the sports model being a baseball model, which makes all of this even more confusing. It seems to me like there’s a lot of potential content about baseball. I mean, what do you do if you’re the ownership of the Rockies and you’re in the NL West with 1 excellent team and three that are above average? It is not easy to lose 75% of your games in a season, but the Rockies almost made it. Is it strategically valuable to invest or do you just sit it out until the winds change? I’m going to keep subscribing and hope sports content I am interested shows up in the future.
Thanks. I’ll leave it all on for now even though there are some sports I’d prefer to actively avoid.
I’ll also confirm that getting email blasts about certain topics do cause people to unsubscribe. There’s a particular country covered by TFP that’s been so over saturated they’ve remarkably turned me from a supporter to somebody who literally never wants to hear about it again, and I’m canceling my paid subscription because I just can’t take it anymore. Which is a long way of saying your readers appreciate the options and thank you.
I am a sports and politics fan. I subscribe because I love the way you approach problem solving. I recommend that you expand to other areas like the environment and healthcare.
I love the sports coverage, even if it’s not narrowly focused on the sports I follow. I’ll say I wouldn’t mind more of the miscellaneous content, especially on AI and the rise of prediction markets. But in the end, I guess I’m mainly here for the politics. If the news cycle is popping off, I want sizzling takes!
I love Baseball and Football, but to give you an idea of how much I follow basketball, the last NBA game I watched in full was the Washington Bullets playing the Orlando Magic (I was given free tickets).
Appreciate this!
I enjoy both. I like the way you focus on politics when it is timely, and although I'm not a huge sports fan, I enjoy reading about the methodology of your models and your predictions.
Can you also enable the paid podcast feed?
Congrats Substack, this is a super good feature. I will be keeping both on though ;)