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ANDREW ELSASS

I’m a hobby writer living in St. Petersburg (the Florida one).

My projects focus on asking weird questions, going on data scavenger hunts, then writing about what I learn.

Sports

- Who Wins the Groza?, analyzing college football’s most prestigious kicker award (2026).
- How a Lottery Can Fix College Football’s Non-Conference Scheduling Problem (2019).
- The Copa de Boro Ledger, a “media guide” I created for a long-running fantasy EPL league (2020-2024).

Music

- Yeah! Last Summer, where sports-style analytics and pop punk collide (2020-present).

Travel & Food

- How to Survive Thailand With A Peanut Allergy, an ebook about exactly what it sounds like (2020).
- St. Pete Travel Guide, my list of recommendations for those visiting the area.
- St. Pete Speaks Spanish, a monthly language exchange I organized and hosted (2021-2024).
- Deb-lectables: A Midwestern Cookbook Collection, a cookbook I created from family recipes (2019).

Personal Experiments

- A Year of Buying Secondhand, in which I tried to thrift all of my clothing purchases for a year (2022).
- 90 Strangers in 30 Days, a social experiment I ran that later spawned a TEDx Talk (2013 & 2017).
- 90 Compliments in 30 Days, a follow-up experiment to the above (2014).

Other Stuff

- Copywriting portfolio, from my Peggy Olson era.
- MAR, a regeneration and reforestation non-profit of which I am a board member.
- Redbubble, where I put dumb wordplays and pop culture references on stickers.
- A list of random ideas to steal.

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