Significant Digits For Monday, Dec. 19, 2016

A FiveThirtyEight Email A [FiveThirtyEight] email [Significant Digits] Monday, Dec. 19, 2016 By [Walt Hickey] You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. 14-48 record The Jacksonville Jaguars fired head coach Gus Bradley after another loss on Sunday. He had the worst record among modern coaches who coached more than 50 games, going 14-48 in more than three seasons, or a .226 win percentage. [[NFL.com]] 41 percent The number of Wells Fargo consumer checking accounts that were opened in November was down 41 percent compared to a year earlier. [[Reuters]] 47 percent Daily fantasy sites like DraftKings are heavily stratified, with power users reaping huge chunks of the financial gains. [Extreme Bernie Sanders voice:] The top 1 percent of users accounted for 47 percent of winnings in the past six months. [[The Wall Street Journal]] 196,000 units The NES Classic — a retro gaming system that lets players revisit classic Nintendo games — has sold well, moving 196,000 units from November 11 through the end of that month, according to a market research firm. It’s a bright spot for the industry even though spending on video game hardware is down. [[TechCrunch]] $155 million “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” pulled in $155 million at the domestic box office last weekend. [[Variety]] 555,808,292 A truly ridiculous amount of prescription opiates have been sent to West Virginia from 2007 to 2012: 555,808,292 doses of hydrocodone and 224,260,980 doses of oxycodone. That’s 433 pills for every person in the state over that time span. [[Charleston Gazette-Mail]] If you see a significant digit in the wild, send it to [@WaltHickey]. --------------------------------------------------------------- The Morning Story [Democrats Need To Win Elections, Not Flip Electors] [Read more] --------------------------------------------------------------- Share [Facebook][Twitter][Email] [FiveThirtyEight] [ESPN] [Unsubscribe] Our mailing address: FiveThirtyEight, 147 Columbus Avenue, New York, NY 10023.