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  1. bukie
    So, I was reading this article on extreme park factors and how exceptional Wrigley Field is for LH power hitters... ...and then I was trying to remember when the last time the Cubs actually had a LH power hitter that hit more than, say, 30 HRs. The numbers are depressing. There's only been one Cub lefty to clear 30 HRs in the last 40 years.
  2. bukie
    Pretty simple: Deng is the best defensive player on the team, and the fallback options aren't really good (Jimmy Butler, Ronnie Brewer playing out of position).
  3. bukie
    well, duh. I actually had a post made up about how much that really looked like Prince Fielder...then I remembered the Cecil stuff so I changed it to that.
  4. bukie
    I just now remembered that Cecil Fielder played for the Tigers in his career...so that picture is Prince Fielder.
  5. bukie
    Any time you can lock up a 5-win DH for 9 years at 23.8M per, you just have to do it.
  6. bukie
    The Bulls are on an absurd 40-7 regular season run dating back to last year. Projected out to a full season, that would be 70-12.
  7. bukie
    Korver leads the team in Offensive Rating, effective FG% and True Shooting %. He has a role, and he excels at that role.
  8. bukie
    So that's what happened to Roberto Hernandez.
  9. bukie
    I'm not even sure where to put this...but this is the best thing ever: Sports posters of the '80s
  10. bukie
    The Clippers beat Dallas on a last-second Billups 3...when down one. Still, the Lakers 9-1 at home and the Clippers are 7-1 at home, with the only team to beat either being the Bulls.
  11. bukie
    This is why I think "bad losses" is a rather overrated factor. Who cares? At least for the teams not at the top of the bracket, every NCAA tournament game is against a good team (though, obviously, the tournament has been partially watered-down, but still). Showing an ability to beat good teams should be the most important factor. I think that's largely a different issue all together. Best wins give a measure of how good a team can be at their best. Bad losses give a measure of how bad a team can be at their worst. Both are valid considerations for at-large worth. Of course, how applicable a bad loss or two in Vegas six months before tournament selection is to a team's at-large worth is a separate discussion...
  12. bukie
    If this statement is backed up with anything (I would assume it is because you usually have good support for your statements) that would pretty much diffuse the importance of road wins. I would assume that good teams win on the road more often because they are good rather then road wins make a good team though that's just a guess. I remembered something about it last week from KP, but it was from his twitter referencing this story. Basically, in terms of predicting game outcomes, it's far more important who you play than where you play them. The general point difference against an opponent between a home game and a road game is a little under 7 points (so 3.5 between home and neutral), which is, for example, less than the expected point difference between Ohio State (1) and UNLV (15) as an opponent.
  13. bukie
    Plus, road wins aren't predictive at all in terms of quality of the team. Every NCAA tournament game is on a neutral site, not in an opponent's home gym. Plus, they beat Memphis, UCLA and Oakland on neutral floors.
  14. bukie
    http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/9953/extremetheo.png
  15. bukie
    Which would be completely new and different for the Raiders!
  16. bukie
    Toccoa Falls, it may be time to just take Western Carolina off the schedule.
  17. bukie
    Viable reasons to dislike the Ravens: - Dislike Ray Lewis - Still not over the move from Cleveland - Prefer pretty offensive football - The Brian Billick/Tony Siragusa announcing combo makes you want to throw things at the TV - Petty dislike of Edgar Allen Poe - Unnatural hatred of the color purple
  18. bukie
    When you're good and playing them at home. Michigan still hasn't proven much to me. If beating a top 10 team doesn't prove much, you've set the bar a little high. Rankings mean absolutely NOTHING.....why is that so hard for people, especially college bball fans, to understand? Beating a good team at home is a decent win, nothing more. Polls mean nothing. Ratings mean something, and beating a great team at home is a great win. You're being patently absurd here if beating a top 10 rated team at home is merely decent, because then nobody has a good win. EDIT: Wait, I was wrong, Indiana is the only consensus top 10 team that has a non-road loss, so congrats Minnesota! You have the only good win in college basketball this year!
  19. bukie
    When you're good and playing them at home. Michigan still hasn't proven much to me. If beating a top 10 team doesn't prove much, you've set the bar a little high.
  20. bukie
    Those really vary wildly, though, from a 2 seed to a 9 seed. As for Palm, as much as he is a smug d-bag about it (which appears to be a prereq for a sports journalist at CBSSports.com), he is right that the RPI is the only statistic measure that has any meaning for the actual committee.
  21. bukie
    Yeah, all of a sudden, not going to Breslin seems like a sweet deal.
  22. bukie
    Is it still ok for me to know that it's based on current status and not end of year and still think it's funny Illinois is a 2 seed and Big Ten champ?
  23. bukie
    I almost did a spit take: http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/bracketology
  24. bukie
    The NBA West is just plain bad on the road so far this year. Only the Thunder have more road wins than the Nets.
  25. bukie
    No, their software is still all run off RPI, at least as of last March. They may not look at a team's RPI specifically, but all the results are based off opponent RPI (I think they also still look at RPI). If anything, instead of overusing RPI they're just being completely subjective (see: VCU, UTEP, Utah State) and putting in teams they think should get a chance just because.
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