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Autobot_ATrac t1_jdptapx wrote

Reply to California Snow Depth Visualized (Winter '22-'23) [OC] by plantboy97

Damn… the data is beautiful crowd sure do have strong ideas of what is acceptable beauty.

Thanks for the work on this. Yeah, I’m sure there were other ways to present it, but I learned a lot. What a crazy winter they’ve had. Gave at least a pause to the gnarly drought.

Thanks for sharing!

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Hellfire242 t1_jdpt6hz wrote

Reply to California Snow Depth Visualized (Winter '22-'23) [OC] by plantboy97

Nice job OP. Anyone else know how this compares to other states? I know nocal gets its share of snow, but don’t other states get way the fuck more? Only asking cause I’m born here(socal) and feel like we just can’t handle weather other states get all the time.

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ATastyBagel t1_jdpsrqf wrote

Reply to [OC] Map of Hospital Accessibility by Car in Virginia by wcedmisten

It's cool to see this posted, If you ever go back to update it for anything I would suggest adding filters for whether the hospital has certain specialties, like does it have a CATH lab, what level of stroke care does it provide, is it a trauma center and if so what level, does it have pediatrics, is it a full hospital or just a freestanding ER. Or just overall re filtering the map by specialty

With those filters you'll see a pretty massive change in how this would look. Even a lot of the areas surrounding Richmond might show a <10 trip but in some of those areas it's only because of the freestanding facilities.

for disclosure i'm saying this as an EMT in the state, from where I work depending on type of patient their distance from an appropriate facility could go from <10 to 30+

Overall though I love this map, it provides a good outline of hospital coverage in Virginia.

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*edit I will add on that looking at the regions where I respond it does line up with the distances you've shown.

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KJ6BWB OP t1_jdpsnvx wrote

Reply to comment by NarcissusLovesEcho in Taller American football players tend to throw for more total yards [OC] by KJ6BWB

> but are shorter QBs more likely to run rather than drop back and pass

Based on this, I would presume so. This post was created in response to https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/121pvx7/oc_nfl_quarterbacks_of_passes_batted_down/ which stated:

> I always just assumed, like some others may have, that shorter QBs have a higher rate of passes batted down. While we can easily look at Baker Mayfield or Kyler Murray to try and explain this as true, we can also look at Russell Wilson, Tua Tagovailoa and Drew Brees as examples of short QBs with a below average batted ball rate.

I thought, "But who cares about just batted balls? If we're looking at passes successfully made then don't we want to look at all passes? And even all attempted passes? Do shorter quarterbacks have more trouble finding the people they want to throw to?"

I think the answer is, "Yes, in general the taller a person is the more often they attempt to throw the ball and the more yards they throw for overall."

See also https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/122c5b2/american_football_starting_quarterback_pass/ in which I explored what relationship pass attempts has to overall yards (they're pretty closely correlated).

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KJ6BWB OP t1_jdpsaou wrote

Reply to comment by Adsequalbads in Taller American football players tend to throw for more total yards [OC] by KJ6BWB

Injuries should average out across the season unless shorter people have a better chance of being injured? Although, come to think of it, it probably is the case that shorter people are more likely to get injured when tackled by someone over 300 lbs.

Anyway, I ran the stats for all quarterbacks, even teams that had four. I even included everyone who even attempted to throw a ball. That's 107 people. In general, considering all of them, the trend bore out. It was basically still the exact same trend when I limited it to only people who threw more than 1,000 yards in the season, etc.

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NarcissusLovesEcho t1_jdprbls wrote

Reply to Taller American football players tend to throw for more total yards [OC] by KJ6BWB

I don't watch much football, so maybe this is dumb, but are shorter QBs more likely to run rather than drop back and pass? If so, I could imagine a lot of their yards coming in the form of run yards. Likewise, when they're scrambling, they're more likely to do short yardage passes. In contast, the tall QBs might be more likely to drop back and give more time for the medium/long routes to develop for bigger gains.

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KJ6BWB OP t1_jdpqv9f wrote

Reply to comment by AskOk3196 in Taller American football players tend to throw for more total yards [OC] by KJ6BWB

I was thinking that perhaps there's diminishing returns if a quarterback is too tall. Does it make it too easy for opposing players to see where the quarterback is looking and where the ball will be thrown? Probably not.

If I limit the sample to players who threw at least 1000 yards then remove Russell Wilson and Kyler Murray, there does appear to be diminishing returns for the tallest football players but if I then remove Patrick Mahomes that apparent diminishing return goes away. In other words, although in general more height means more yards, Patrick Mahomes is so good he makes everyone taller than him appear to be slacking.

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KJ6BWB OP t1_jdpq4ok wrote

Reply to American football starting quarterback pass attempts v total yards, with player height [OC] by KJ6BWB

Total passing yards appears to be highly correlated with attempts to pass the ball. Other than Patrick Mahomes, out of the 32 starting quarterbacks, there doesn't appear to be statistical outliers. In general, per https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/122avg2/taller_american_football_players_tend_to_throw/ taller quarterbacks means more total yards but it would appear total pass attempts is even more important.

Although, the trendline is polynomial. It would appear there is some slight amount of diminishing returns as number of pass attempts increases -- it's not purely linear. As pass attempts increases, in general you have to throw more and more passes to continue to increase in total yardage (which everyone does).

Unless you're Patrick Mahomes who is apparently a throwing machine.

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