The Uniform Distribution
Darkhorse
MARCH 15, 2014
The goaltenders from my youth - Bill Ranford, Andy Moog, Grant Fuhr - all had jersey numbers in the low thirties. And most of the goalies I can think of now have numbers in the low thirties. This got me wondering, how do the numbers number by position across the major sports leagues? What traditions, rules, and preferences do they reveal? So, after some python scraping and excel manipulating we find ourselves with a paradox: uniform distributions that aren't uniform distributions.
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