A few assumptions are often tossed around about overtime: first, that the home team has an advantage; and second, that teams carry over fourth quarter momentum into extra time. We looked at both, breaking down how often the home and away teams won in a variety of scenarios.

The data used in the analysis comes from SportsDataBase.com and covers all games from the 2002-03 season up to the beginning of the 2013 playoffs (a total of 754 overtime games).

The graphic above displays historic results for both home and away teams under nine different overtime scenarios. The vertical columns tell you which team had the better record going into the game — the "tie" column means they had the same record coming in. The horizontal rows list which team was winning the game going into the fourth quarter of regulation.

The two bars in the upper left corner of the chart, for example, are the results of games in which the home team had a better record than the visitor and led the game at the start of the fourth quarter. (In other words, the away team staged a comeback to force overtime.)

A few general results of the analysis:

Away teams who'd blown a lead did better than away teams who'd made a comeback.

Specifically, away teams that came into the game with a better record than their opponents won more overtimes after LOSING a fourth quarter lead than they did after making a fourth quarter comeback, suggesting that momentum isn't all it's cracked up to be. (Away teams that had worse records than their opponents did about the same in overtime whether or not they'd lost a lead.)

Overall, home teams won fewer overtime games than they did games as a whole.

Home teams won 61% of ALL games in the time period studied but only 54% of those that went to OT, which means our results might suggest that home-court advantage isn't as important in the extra period as conventional wisdom would have it. (Of course, visiting teams that force overtime are probably better on the whole than the general pool of all visiting teams.)

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If Twitter is the brain of the social web — lots of chatter, commentary, and argument — then Facebook is the heart — a place for liking, sharing, and emotions. BuzzFeed analyzed a selection of top posts from the past week to find out what percent of their traffic came from Twitter and what percent came from Facebook. Above, our Brain/Heart Matrix for May 1 through May 7.

These got the highest percentage of traffic from Twitter of the stories we looked at:

5. "Deep Inside The Biggest Little Dildo Factory In America"

This BuzzReads story got 11.14% of its traffic from Twitter.

Via: natashavc

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Arby's Large Roast Beef: 85 Calories Per Dollar

The large roast beef will set you back $6.60 and packs in 560 calories. A decent choice for cheap weight gain, but you can do better!

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Taco Bell Doritos Locos Taco: 100 Calories Per Dollar

The Doritos Locos Taco quickly became one of the most popular items on Taco Bell's menu. It costs $1.99 and contains about 200 calories. Now available in Cool Ranch too!

Via: fast-food-nutrition.findthebest.com

KFC Double Down: 106 Calories Per Dollar

The infamous Double Down will cost you $5.65 and give you 600 calories. Not bad, but not amazing given what this thing looks like.

Via: commons.wikimedia.org

Shake Shack Double Shackburger: 108 Calories Per Dollar

This burger costs about $7.10 and contains 770 calories, but we know you'll probably burn most of that off standing in line.

Via: tasty-eating.blogspot.com

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Above: the projected winning percentage of Major League Baseball teams this season, per Baseball Prospectus, compared to the price of beer at their stadiums courtesy of the Brookston Beer Bulletin. Below, winning percentage compared to average ticket price as measured by the Fan Cost Experience site.

And, factoring in the cheapness of beer, the price of tickets, and the likelihood of seeing a home win all together, here are BuzzFeed's Beer And Baseball Top Ten:

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After the conviction of the Steubenville rapists and the suicide of Rehtaeh Parsons after her alleged rape, it's natural to look for a way to keep crimes like these from happening to anyone else. But disturbingly, making the punishments harsher does not seem to be the answer.

We looked at the punishments that each state doles out in response to forcible rape. The FBI defines forcible rape as vaginal penetration of a female victim without her consent and by use of force. The Bureau tracks forcible rapes of female victims annually in their Uniform Crime Report.

BuzzFeed compared 2011's state-by-state statistics per 100,000 people with the punishments that each state imposes for the crime. The findings were alarming. The places with stricter punishments had the most rapes. This may be a product of laws catching up to the frequency of the crime in the states where it's most prevalent. But the laws apparently haven't yet done their job.

Higher fines are associated with higher rates of rape.

Only 3 states and DC have fines of at least six figures. There are 10 states with lesser fines and 37 states without any clear fine at all.

So are longer sentences.

20 states and DC are committed to giving a life sentence for forcible rape. 14 more give out more than 20 years, and 11 others give less than that. There are only 5 without any minimum sentence.

As are stricter residency requirements when rapists are released.

Residency requirements in many states prohibit released rapists from living near schools, parks, churches, and many other places where children may be found. There are 6 states that require more than a football field of separation, and 10 that require less. 35 states don't have any restrictions at all.

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Smoke and a pancake? Bong and a blintz? BuzzFeed broke down to best places to get high and follow it up with the best gourmet munchies.

We mapped out how The Daily Beast's Pot-Smoking Capitals rank on Travel + Leisure's list of the Best Cities for Foodies. The weed ranks we extracted were based on The Daily Beast's "Pot Culture" statistic, using their overall rank as a tie-breaker. Below, our top five Munchies Capitals of America, in reverse order.

5. Boston, MA

Boston's weed culture is a 9/10, and they're #23 on the foodie list.

Source: 1.bp.blogspot.com

4. New York City, NY

No need to settle for Doritos when you've got an entire city full of world-class restaurants at your fingertips — there's even a guide to the best stoner dishes in New York. Weed culture there is only 5/10, but the food is #4.

Source: wallpaperium.com

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University of Virginia

BuzzFeed used Fiesta Frog's party schools list and Forbes's academic rankings to find the schools that are best for both partying and studying. Virginia ranked #22 in partying and #36 in academics, for the best combined total.

Source: Mike Ingalls for TheSabre.com  /  via: thesabre.com

University of North Carolina

Party rank: 25
Academic rank: 47

Via: Streeter Lecka / Getty Images

Colgate University

Party rank: 31
Academic rank: 48

Source: Paul Swaney  /  via: stadiumjourney.com

Vanderbilt University

Party rank: 60
Academic rank: 33

Via: Joe Robbins / Getty Images

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BuzzFeed mapped out where most of Fiesta Frog's "Top 100 Schools To Party At" stand on Forbes' "America's Top Colleges" list. Looks like the people who party the most (near the top of the graph) know how to crack a book once in a while too. The lower half of the party list does seem to have a few slackers, though.

Source: Design by John Gara for BuzzFeed

And the winners, for most combined partying prowess and academic rigor:

1. University of Virginia (#22 party & #36 academic).
2. University of North Carolina (#25 party & #47 academic).
3. Colgate University (#31 party & #48 academic).

Source: campusexplorer.com

The Princeton Review published lists for schools that study most, study least, drink least, and more. We compared this with the Forbes and Fiesta Frog lists:

Only Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California, was able to "study most" and make Forbes' top 100 while still placing on Fiesta Frog's party list.

Source: onedublin.files.wordpress.com

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BuzzFeed analyzed the scripts of the first two seasons of Game of Thrones to find out who had sex, where, and under what circumstances. The result: paid sex is very common, and King's Landing is the most sexually active place. The two seasons featured one scene of sex between siblings and one of betrothal-breaking sex — Robb Stark sleeping with Talisa despite being promised to someone else. And indeed, women are over three times more likely to be naked in a sex scene than men are — 17 sex scenes featured female nudity, while only 5 had naked men.

BuzzFeed collected and scrutinized every script from the first twenty episodes of HBO's hit series Game of Thrones. The goal: to find trends in the mention of Houses, creatures and other elements of the show in order to predict what's going to happen in the highly anticipated season 3, premiering March 31.

Why look into the flames when you can look at the data? Read on for some (spoiler-free) expectations!

1. More dragons, fewer direwolves.

Faithful viewers won't be surprised by the spikes BuzzFeed found in the mentions of dragons. Especially given the trailers we've seen so far, expect even more in season 3. On the other hand, white walkers and direwolves dropped off in season 2. While you can expect the mysterious humanoids from north of the Wall to play a bigger role than ever based on the end of season 2, direwolves seem to be on the outs with one dead and another lost in the woods.

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2. A decrease in the influence of lords — and their swords.

We saw a decrease in the use of the words "Lord" and "sword" from season one to two. It can probably be explained by the increasing frequency of magical entities — swords and titles mean nothing in the face of dragons and walking corpses. Look for these drop-offs to persist as the fantastical aspects of the series gain steam.

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Just how realistic were the financial scenarios of our favorite TV families? Your best guess is the right one: not very. However, certain shows gave us an illusion of plausibility thanks to likable, supposedly "modest" set-ups. With some help from our BuzzFeed data team, we were able to take a general look at five TV families to see what their finances might have been like.

"7th Heaven"

Place: "Glen Oak," CA
Aired: 1996-2007
Background: OMG, living in this house must have been the worst. The Camden Family, lorded over by minister Eric Camden, started out with five children, until the twins were born in third season, bringing the household tally up two adults and seven children for a total of 9 under one roof. As a stay-at-home mom, Annie didn't bring in much income, so the family relied fully on Eric's salary. They had certain economic advantages — the house would have presumably been paid for by the church; the kids seemed to have attended public high school (although Ruthie had a very brief stint at private school). As the story progresses, certain of the Camden kids do go nearby colleges, however most of them hold down jobs at the same time so it would be safe to assume (considering the family's size and traditional ethics) that the kids were expected to take out loans and work through school to support themselves.

Source: bi.kotek.pl

"7th Heaven" Financial Summary

The Camdens were losing a buttload of money each year.

"Full House"

Place: San Francisco, CA
Aired: 1987-1995
Background: As the host of local news show Wake Up, San Francisco, Danny Tanner probably made a pretty decent living as a local celebrity. However, supporting three children without a full second income (mom was deceased), plus adding two additional household members (Uncles Jesse and Joey) would have brought additional costs. Although Jesse and Joey worked, it's safe to say that the incomes from their chosen careers — rock star, voice actor, and "advertising agency" — probably didn't contribute much to the household budget. Jesse seemed to "contribute" more by offering childcare, while Joey seemed slightly more responsible (and therefore more likely to pay for groceries and household items more often).

Source: thrifteye.com

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Evil mascots beat good ones.

We broke down school mascots into 8 categories: birds, reptiles, mammals, insects, colors, nature-related, evil beings, and people which included local culture related stuff. The evil beings beat the people category 71% of the time. So if an evil-mascot team is matched up against a person-mascot team, you know what to do.

Via: Streeter Lecka / Getty Images

Reptiles are also a good bet.

Reptiles also beat up on the people 75% of the time. And they came up victorious against mammals 70% of the time. Other mascot trends that occurred about 60% of the time include birds bombing nature; colors over mammals; evil consuming mammals and reptiles; mammals, insects and nature trouncing people; and mammals eating insects.

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Don't bet on the Ivy League.

Some conferences, like the Ivy League, have a somewhat dismal history. Check the charts below to see which conferences have stalled out, and where, over the last 15 years.

Via: Elise Amendola, File / AP

So, in the last 15 years...

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Where To Get Drunk

The cities with the biggest circles have the most bar crawls, according to data from PubCrawls.com.

Where To Kiss An Irish Person

Cities with the biggest circles have the biggest percentage of Irish-American residents.

Source: Population data via Wikipedia

Where To Watch A Parade

These cities have the oldest St. Patrick's Day parades. We can't vouch for their coolness, but at least you know they're committed.

Source: Parade data via Wikipedia

It's the time of the football year for speculating about potential — while fans of college teams rejoice/mope about their incoming freshman classes after last month's national signing day, NFL obsessives are studying combine results in anticipation of April's draft. But how many of this year's top graduating high school players will be NFL caliber four years from now? With a hat tip to Matt Hinton's annual analysis of recruiting rankings and college success, we compiled a big pile of data on how recruits fared in their efforts to make the pros, tracking all the players ranked by Rivals.com, generally thought of as the most reliable recruiting site, between 2002 and 2009. (Players from later classes aren't yet eligible to play in the league. All FBS players are accounted for in the rankings.) Here's some of what we found.

The Rankings Are, Overall, Reliable. But...

No big surprises here. The chart looks about how you'd expect: a few extremely low- and high-ranked players with a lot of middling prospects in the...middle. And the rankings, taken broadly, perform well — each recruiting tier outperforms those below it. But there's something a little off about the five-stars.

...Five-Star Recruits Aren't That Much Better Than Four-Star Recruits

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This is your house — that you share with 114,804 of your closest friends.

Via: Molly Riley / Reuters

This is your "little brother."

Via: Paul Battaglia / AP

This man elicits a rage deep inside of you that you didn't know existed.

Via: Gene J. Puskar, File / AP

So does this guy (and his sweater vest).

Via: Jamie Sabau / Getty Images

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Grand Slam Wins Across The Globe

Check out where the Grand Slammers from each decade are from!

Career Grand Slams by Decade and Country

Only 17 people have ever succeeded in winning each of the four Tennis Grand Slams and achieving a Career Grand Slam. Four of them (S. Williams, Federer, Nadal, & Sharapova) are still active today. Here's a breakdown of how many your parents and grandparents got to see and where they're all from.

The 17 Career Grand Slammers at the Grand Slams

How dominant can 17 people be?
-the left bars show the number of Grand Slams held per decade.
-the right bars show the number of wins by Career Grand Slammers.
Tennis suffered from WW2 as much as anything. The US Open was the only Grand Slam held each year during the '40s. The 1986 Australian Open didn't happen because of a schedule change from December to January of '87.

Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, & Novak Djokovic vs John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg, & Jimmy Connors: Grand Slams

We decided to compare today's big 3 with three stars of the 70's-80's. These pie charts breakdown who won Grand Slams when at least one of the trio participated. The old guys won an impressive 72%, but it pales in comparison to the 83% we've witnessed in the last 10 years. Helps having Roger who accounts for 43%.

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Long Speeches

Wikipedia says the audience hears best at 150 words spoken per minute, so expect a few of these to break 2 minutes.

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Filled with thanks...

While the odds are low anyone will come close to the 32 times Halle Berry said 'thank', almost everyone will begin their speech with thanks. Only three speeches since 1972 have omitted 'thank'-- John Houseman in 1974, Tom Hanks in 1993, and Juliette Binoche in 1997.

- Male actors are over 2x as likely to thank their agent

- Female actors are over 3x as likely to thank their families

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..and sooooo much enthusiasm

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(Data from the Academy Awards Acceptance Speech Database.)

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Gun victim data from the 2010 FBI Uniform Crime Report.

The waves of press following recent horrific mass shootings in Connecticut, Colorado, and elsewhere have brought gun violence back onto the national agenda.

One thing that sometimes gets obscured in the debate, however: The victims of gun violence remain overwhelmingly African-American. Indeed, black people make up just about 13% of the population of the United States — but more than half of all victims of gun violence.

Black victims are overwhelmingly killed by handguns, and the congressional focus on semi-automatic rifles has no obvious connection to the violence plaguing cities like Chicago.

One factor in the intense focus on white victims may be who is leading the conversation. Here's a snapshot of the people talking about guns on cable news between January 29 and February 5:

(Data on cable news pertains to January 29, 2013 to February 5, 2013. In that period, 68% of the reporters and guests on MSNBC talking about guns were white; 78% on CNN; and 93% on Fox.)

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Design by Chris Ritter

Source: fbi.gov

The massacre in Newtown, Connecticut. last month set off a national debate over regulating military-style rifles and other guns.

But not all Americans fall victim to gun violence equally — or to the same guns. African-Americans are far more likely to be victims of gun murders than any other group — they make up 57% of all gun murders, according to FBI figures analyzed by BuzzFeed. Handgun victims, over all, were 60% black and 27% white.

And handguns are by far the most common murder weapon, killing 89% of all gun murder victims in the country.

Other guns take a different set of victims. Shotgun victims showed the opposite pattern: 30% black and 60% white.

And rifles, the weapons that are currently the focus of attention from media and lawmakers, victimized white and black people nearly equally.

This data was pulled from the 2010 FBI Uniform Crime Report.