白帯 Juan Franceschini
Welcome to White Belt.
My blog, and my canvas to never forget to learn. Small apps about film, basketball and football, each one built to answer a question I couldn't stop asking.
Star Streaks
Which actors led four Hollywood films in a row, every one rated 7+ on IMDb? 67 have done it since 1960. Walk their stars, year by year.
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The Ratings Atlas
Every episode of 242 great TV series, mapped as terrain. Find the summits, the valleys, and the shows that never stopped climbing.
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Plot Twist
Find movies that share a story, not just a genre: 3,372 films matched by their plots, explored as a list, a map or a detour.
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Tetris Tendencies
Where does a player shoot more, or less, than the league? 30 seasons and 6.5 million shots, drawn block by block.
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The Shape of Sport
6,449 pro athletes from six leagues on one grid of height and weight. Watch each league's bodies cluster, find any player's double in another sport, and see where you'd fit.
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NBA JAM Stats
Every NBA team, rated like the 1993 arcade classic. Pick a two-player duo, challenge another, and read the tale of the tape.
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Premier League Scorigami
Every Premier League scoreline since 1992: which have happened only once, and which have never happened at all.
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NBA Cards
Every 2024-25 opening-night player as a holographic trading card. Flip them to read the back and collect all 526.
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Long reads
All writing →- Oct 2026 Today's Red Card Is Too Harsh on the Team, and Arbitrary 1,140 matches of StatsBomb data show a sanction that halves a team's attack, never ends, and is priced by the clock. A 20-minute power play fixes it.
- Mar 2025 Why You Can No Longer Win the Premier League With a Weak Defence 32 seasons of data reveal how Guardiola closed the door Ferguson walked through
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