Three blog entries in one day. Stuff I meant to write about and never got around to. :)
A friend of mine, John Chaput, is an author. (He earns his living this way so he can claim title to the title.) Recently he wrote a very interesting book about the 2005 CFL season called the CFL Buzz Book.
What makes the book interesting is its statistical analysis of the season. I have seen similar books about other leagues, particularly Major League Baseball, but to see such a book about the CFL is quite new.
John writes with a very dry sense of humour that geeks like me particularly appreciate. If you take your sports seriously but still have a sense of humour about it, you will love John's writing style. I'm quite certain that some of John's remarks passed inches over my head (perhaps even feet), but I certainly caught a lot of them. They were quite entertaining.
It's hard to imagine a book of statistics that you will actually have trouble putting down, but here is such a book. I've already told John to reserve me a copy of the 2006 season version.