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This is what I was referring to: 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 Can you guess which one was Iowa?
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Also, if you noticed the blind tier analysis of KP's top 12 I posted a couple pages back, Iowa sticks out like a sore thumb there almost as much as Wichita State.
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Still, it's not like Ken sits down on his computer at the end of the season and tweaks his #s in a way to make the national champion the best team. 10 of the past 11 years, the national champion has ended up #1 on the list (crazy 2011 Butler/VCU tourney being the exception). Sure, it's possible for a team to "break" the rankings if they run up the score on patsies and play close games against all the better teams, but he's constantly adjusting the effect those have. All the numbers are, really, is an adjusted efficiency margin, used to predict future outcomes in games. They're really successful on the whole, but even if a team has, say, a 90% chance of victory, they'll lose out 10% of the time.
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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.
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Iowa and Ohio State have an amazing knack of not being able to win close games.
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Tuna is legal now.
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we did that already, that's how you got your team.
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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.
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Good win, now just beat Iowa and MSU on the road and Michigan at home, and they're right back in the bubble talk.
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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.
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Where did you get the code from? I threw everything together based on the article in the link.
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And if I had to rank them, I'd go A, I, B, H, L, F, D, C, K, E, J, G.
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Yes...which is why it's only mostly blind, since there was only going to be one team with 0 losses.
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Random Cubs Musings: Minor League Edition
bukie replied to Little Slide Rooter's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Is nobody allowed to take a photo of Vogelbach from closer than 50 feet away? -
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.
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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
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In the Sucks game, somehow Milwaukee leads by 29 at the half and has scored 73 points.
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2014 Draft Discussion
bukie replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
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.
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20 days til selection sunday One more week, then. I might set up some blind "Pick who should be the 1 seeds" stuff later tonight.
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Is it time to set up NCAA tourney mock stuff already, or are there a couple weeks yet?
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Villanueva should stay like this all year.
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J-Biz and K-Bot
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If by end of season standings, then points (non-playoffs first): 1. The Process (3-19) 2. Bazingas (7-15) 3. Lynx (8-14) 4. Chicken of Sea (9-13, 5804 pts) 5. Harry's Budcrew (9-13, 6069 pts) 6. Alamo Stealth (9-13, 6585 pts) 7. Quakers (9-13, 6599 pts) 8. Cucamonga Cracker Killers (10-12) 9. Ron Washington's Dealers (11-11) 10. Mighty D-Block (12-10) 11. Galesburg Hand Sanitizers (12-10) 12. Scioscia's Tragic Illness (13-9) 13. Kid Rodelo (14-8) 14. Northside Baseball (16-6) 15. Theocracy (17-5, 6963 pts) 16. Calvinball (17-5, 7282 pts)
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Oh, the Bulls are playing tonight? ...huh.
