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Burrito Bracket

A rather amusing approach to the one-person survey of places that serve the same thing; in this case, burritos.

http://burritobracket.blogspot.com/

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“We all have to stand before the kitchen gods.” Chef Jacob Sahaya Kumar Aruni

Maybe we should have adopted a similar approach for the Beefthons.

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Steve Z.
Photographer/Pseudojournalist

"The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook." - Julia Child

For what it's worth, the Burrito Bracket is authored by Nate Silver, who is a great baseball writer and (I believe) co-founder of the excellent baseball analysis site Baseball Prospectus.

The site itself actually is more like a taqueria bracket, as Nate is comparing like to like at different joints, some of which don't have burritos. So there are some al pastor taco face-offs and other types of face offs amidst the burrito challenges.

I don't think that Nate was a co-founder of BP, but he's the author of their PECOTA player projection system and an excellent statistician. I love his approach to this "problem." But I'm a little concerned that he has Chipotle at a #7 seed.

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"You may not want to take its picture, but you really want to eat it." - Nigella Lawson

I agree with the Chipotle thing. Also, good point on the Nate Silver background. I don't know why, but I get the backstory of Silver and Clay Davenport (who I believe was in the initial group of BP contributors brought in by Gary Huckaby) confused. At least Nate didn't name his statistical breakthrough after himself.

Okay, enough baseball geek talk.

Although this is a late response, I just recently found this site (which is awesome, btw.) I believe he did the rankings by their yelp score, although he did change at least one matchup for the sake of making things interesting.