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Smart Nonsense
Dylan Jardon & Henry Belcaster
The Magical Design Hidden in Sports | Smart Nonsense #348
24 minutes Posted Jun 21, 2025 at 12:00 pm.
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Intro
Dylan's GrubHub credit card hacks
Why I should cancel my Amex Platinum card
Winning three championships (I'm kind of a big deal)
Soccer vs. Hockey shifts: a chaotic debate
Dylan the "banshee" on the soccer field
Obsessing over tennis game design
Tennis scoring is secretly brilliant
Why football's Hail Mary is peak game design
KO comebacks and Black Swan KOs
How hockey fixed its boring overtime
Are penalty kicks better than shootouts?
Making our game fairer than the SAT
Why Desmos's UI/UX is so bad
The mystery of the "y=x" graph
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Newsletter: https://www.smartnonsense.com/SAT app: https://www.brainblast.com/Hire a video editor: https://www.clipt.cošŸ•˜Timestamps:(0:00) Intro(0:34) Dylan's GrubHub credit card hacks(0:58) Why I should cancel my Amex Platinum card(2:58) Winning three championships (I'm kind of a big deal)(3:42) Soccer vs. Hockey shifts: a chaotic debate(4:59) Dylan the "banshee" on the soccer field(7:39) Obsessing over tennis game design(9:06) Tennis scoring is secretly brilliant(11:00) Why football's Hail Mary is peak game design(12:53) KO comebacks and Black Swan KOs(14:50) How hockey fixed its boring overtime(17:01) Are penalty kicks better than shootouts?(17:48) Making our game fairer than the SAT(19:57) Why Desmos's UI/UX is so bad(21:35) The mystery of the "y=x" graph(22:37) My buddy's to-do list app paradoxRecorded June 6, 2025#SmartNonsense #DylanJardon #HenryBelcaster