New York’s sports reading series returns to the Gallery at Le Poisson Rouge with chroniclers of all things Madden, the video game that often seems more popular and influential than the NFL itself. Neil Paine went to Florida to learn how Madden ratings are made, while his colleague and self-avowed schlub Walt Hickey got rated himself and written into the game. They documented their exploits in a two-part series for FiveThirtyEight (where guest host Carl Bialik also works). They’ll be joined by Jon Bois, who writes about the absurdities of Madden for SB Nation, where he is an associate editor, and gives his readers a way into his surreal tours of its outer extremes in his column Breaking Madden.

This is a general admission event in The Gallery at LPR.