Nah, I'm pretty sure Wisconsin will still win the 2012 National Championship and Florida the 2013 National Championship. Kind of an odd thing to try to point out, since Kentucky and Louisville were #1 on KP the past two years.
Very weird. That's what happens when there are no bad teams in conference and no dominant teams in conference. Thanks to MSU's injuries and Northwestern's suddenly figuring out how to play at the start of conference, no team has a game on the schedule they can't win or lose.
You would think, but it seems like players in the past who were notorious for being fat or heavy and had a lot of power, who then went on to lose weight and get in better shape before a season, would often have lower power numbers. But then again I'm only really recalling Prince Fielder when he took on that vegetarian diet after his 2007 breakout year, lost weight, and then lost over 100 points to his SLG and OPS, so I really don't have a lot of frame of reference. There haven't been a lot of "fat" power hitters out there. Off the top of my head I can only think of David Ortiz, Mo Vaughn, Cecil Fielder... and I'm drawing a blank now. Babe Ruth Rusty Freaking Staub and Greg Luzinski were the fat power hitters I remember from my childhood. John Kruk is someone I remember from the 80s.
Blind (mostly) ranking, based on Ken Pomeroy's "Fairness in quality wins" analysis: http://kenpom.com/blog/index.php/weblog/entry/fairness_in_quality_wins Team T1W T1L T2W T2L T3W T3L
Team A 7 2 4 0 14 0
Team B 6 4 9 0 8 0
Team C 6 5 5 1 11 0
Team D 5 2 6 0 14 0
Team E 3 7 6 0 10 0
Team F 5 5 9 1 8 0
Team G 2 2 4 2 17 0
Team H 10 1 4 0 12 1
Team I 8 3 5 0 11 0
Team J 5 4 5 1 13 0
Team K 2 0 8 0 19 0
Team L 9 4 6 0 7 1
Basically, a T1 game is a home game against the top 20, neutral game against top 50, or road game against top 75. A T2 game is home vs 21-60, neutral vs 51-100, road vs 76-175. T3 game is all the rest. Set up so a T1 is a high quality win, a T2 is a losable game, and T3 is win padding.
Why does it not surprise me this comes from a pro golfer... Steve Elkington @elkpga 34m ESPN reporting Michael Sam is leading the handbag throw at NFL combine....No one else expected to throw today
Just want another 3 players to play themselves into discussion for the first 3 picks. That's all. just convince Houston to pick someone below slot, and Florida and the White Sox to not spend overslot on Rodon. Too much to ask?
I did the same thing, mostly came down to whoever showed me how to do either. I'm a natural lefty, so I learned to write that way in school. Almost everything else, people just showed me how to do it righty, so I learned it righty.
This feels like one of those years Illinois runs with an 11-12 seed to the BTT finals, because their results are so much worse than their overall play. Plus, now the freshmen have actually taken over most of the offensive contribution, and lo and behold they're playing better.
MLS purchased Chivas USA to get it away from Jorge Vergara. They'll rebrand it and keep it in LA. http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/article/2014/02/20/major-league-soccer-purchases-chivas-usa?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=News&utm_campaign=Unpaid