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February 2

Which board game is this?

I played this board game at the Tapiola library in Espoo, Finland but I forgot its name. Can anyone identify it? JIP | Talk 14:23, 2 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Taluva --Viennese Waltz 14:39, 2 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That's OK, don't mention it. --Viennese Waltz 09:40, 5 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks in retrospect. JIP | Talk 13:40, 5 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Naming Piper Tune

Does someone know the name of the tune by 00:42 to 00:49 in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amNF_F6oeRU the Dueling Pipers? Thank you 2003:F5:6F06:9B00:808A:6327:4B4:53F7 (talk) 15:17, 2 February 2020 (UTC) MPB[reply]

It sounds a lot like "Morrison's Jig", but I'm not 100% sure. ---Sluzzelin talk 19:54, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I think you're right. Here's a fiddle player doing the number, at a lower pitch, but it sounds the same or similar.[1] ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 20:41, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for that, Bugs! The fiddler, Katy Adelson, mentions that it is also called "Stick Across the Hob". "Morrison" is James Morrison, one of the great Sligo fiddlers. This particular jig found its way to Morrison in the United States in 1936. Shortly before a recording with Columbia Records, an accordionist from County Kerry named Tom Carmody

"(...} played him the jig. Jim asked me where I had got it from and I told him it was my father's jig called The Stick Across The Hob. Jim asked me to play it again and wrote it down as I played, then he got the fiddle and played it off. 'I will put that on record tomorrow,' he said, 'and we'll call it Maurice Carmody's Favourite."

(from Harry Bradshaw's sleeve notes for a reissue of James Morrison The Professor (recordings from 1921-1936) as quoted in Peter Cooper's Complete Irish Fiddle Player (2010). ---Sluzzelin talk 23:16, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

And here is The Professor's recording from 1936. ---Sluzzelin talk 23:26, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Aye, it stirs the soul of those of us who have some Celtic blood in us. :) ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 01:05, 4 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, beautiful, thank you so much. A friend of mine used to play this Jig on his violin in the Brittany but I met it again two days ago for the first time after over fourty years. 2003:F5:6F03:3E00:7490:EBB1:46E8:D2A7 (talk) 18:50, 4 February 2020 (UTC) MPB[reply]

What's the median field position of the start of an NFL drive?

Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 18:18, 2 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Places to start your search. MarnetteD|Talk 18:32, 2 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You ask for median, but for a complete answer, how about mean, median, and mode. The mode is easiest to answer. If a kickoff or punt is not a touchback, there is no telling where it will end. Further, it is unexpected for two non-touchback kicks to start at the same position on the field. The same argument follows for turnover on downs. The line of scrimmage is rather random. A touchback has a set starting position (20 or 25, depending on the rules). Just two touchbacks will likely set the 20/25 yard line as the mode. Mean is also easy to answer because statistics are well published for the NFL. Before the NFL changed touchbacks to the 25, the mean line of scrimmage to start a drive was between 20 and 25 yards. After the change, it moved five yards to between 25 and 30 yards. It was 28 in 2019. Finally, the median. That is nearly impossible to work out exactly because access to the statistics of every drive is hard to come by. I wrote a screenscraper to pull game-by-game data and, assuming I didn't mess it up in any way, the median starting line of scrimmage for 2019 was the 28 yard line. The same value for mean and median is a rounding issue. Mean is actually about 28.4 and median is about 27.8. I would have thought median would be closer to the touchback line of scrimmage. If someone has a better data set, I would be interested in knowing what they calculate meand and median to be. 135.84.167.41 (talk) 14:33, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The data for every drive is available at NFL.com, which maintains game logs. Here is the one from the most recent Super Bowl. It would require someone to take the time to go through it and collect the data. It's not impossible, Jon Bois has gone through such data before for his extremely detailed Chart Party YouTube series; he did a rather impressive video doing a deep dive on punting (it was a 60 minute video, and quite good), for example. He did a shorter one (~15 min) on kickoffs, I don't know if he got the data you're looking for, but you can find his kickoff video here. I'm sure he probably uses some sort of data scraping system to go through all of the game logs and collect the data. It's doable. I don't know if it has been done though. --Jayron 32 19:35, 4 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]