538 Article: Title Blocks, or A Rafa-less World

[Doctor MJ]

Interesting article on 538 where they aim to quantify the impact on major championships of one player on another.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/what ... lam-title/

They estimate that Rafa cost Federer about 4 majors for example.

This is a good thing to see as I always find people have trouble separating out this type of context: People are prone to say things like "They have the same number of Grand Slams, but X spent more time at #1" rather than "They have the same number of Grand Slams, but Y did it while playing against tougher competition".