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  1. bukie
    ESPN just put up a poll for who was the biggest steal of the first round, and Hansbrough was one of the choices...
  2. bukie
    It's official, Minnesota to run NBA's first 5-guard offense, where everyone brings the ball up the court.
  3. bukie
    I'm curious if teams simply don't want to give Blair guaranteed money.
  4. bukie
    So...why would a team draft 2 point guards?
  5. bukie
    Interesting article on yesterday's game from Spain's perspective.
  6. bukie
    5 seed Juan Martin del Potro was upset in the second round by Lleyton Hewitt. This leaves Roddick as the highest remaining seed in his quarter of the bracket.
  7. bukie
    At this point it's more about hoping for a good draw, a-la 2002. Given the way the seeds match up right now, the US could end up in a potential nightmare draw with a seeded European team plus the Netherlands and an unseeded CONMEBOL team like Paraguay.
  8. bukie
    Spain, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Brazil, England, Argentina, France.... I don't think the US could pass any one of them. Now, if France somehow misses the World Cup... You named 8. There's only 7 seeds. So we'd need 2 of those to miss. It's not likely at all. Do the seeds just go by the world rankings? Rankings plus an effect from the previous 2 World Cups. http://www.football-rankings.info/2009/06/2010-wc-seeding-formula-based-on.html
  9. bukie
    Spain, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Brazil, England, Argentina, France.... I don't think the US could pass any one of them. Now, if France somehow misses the World Cup...
  10. bukie
    Yeah, if there's one thing I am confident about with this squad, it's that they'd beat the ever loving crap out of that '94 squad.
  11. bukie
    I tend to believe the country as a whole cares more about soccer (on a world stage) than ESPN often makes us think.
  12. bukie
    I'd still rank 3-2 over portugal and 2-0 over Mexico above that, maybe even 2-1 vs. Columbia from 1994. Just because those are the World Cup and this is the Confederations Cup. Maybe the Portugal result, but I'd argue this means just as much because Spain is a much better squad than anyone they've beaten in years, and Spain was taking this cup as seriously as any.
  13. bukie
    That has to be the biggest result from US Soccer in...longer than I can remember.
  14. bukie
    I understand that they are equations, but the process doesn't make sense to me. The author is essentially making a substitution to eliminate a variable in the equation. I'll try to do the same process, except showing each and every step, and then see if it makes sense. We have two equations: Eq 1: 1.8 * OBP2 + SLG2 = 1.12 Eq 2: -OBP2 - SLG2 = -0.9 Step 1: The second equation can be rewritten like so: -OBP2 - SLG2 = -0.9 -OBP2 = SLG2 - 0.9 SLG2 = 0.9 - OBP2 Then we can substitute the right half of that equation (0.9 - OBP2) in for SLG2 in the first equation, and we get: 1.8 * OBP2 + (0.9 - OBP2) = 1.12 Finally, simplify the equation: 1.8 * OBP2 - OBP2 = 1.12 - 0.9 0.8 * OBP2 = 0.22
  15. bukie
    It was always against the rules, it just wasn't enforced at all prior to 2003.
  16. bukie
    Here's a decent article by Bill Simmons outlining the various "eras" of baseball and what was taken advantage of in each one: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?id=4268999 Really, there wasn't really a single time in the history of baseball where you can say players didn't have some sort of unfair advantage over the competition, and those players exploited those advantages.
  17. bukie
    http://www.baseballprospectus.com/statistics/eqa2009.php
  18. bukie
    EqA is more accurate as a complete measure of offensive capability. OPS's biggest flaw is that it essentially treats OBP and SLG evenly, even though the scales of each are completely different (highest possible OBP is 1, while highest possible SLG is 4). This causes the statistic to undervalue OBP in relation to SLG. Some pundits are making use of an adjusted OPS, which adds a factor to OBP (I've seen anywhere from 1.4x to 1.8x) to make it more comparable to SLG.
  19. bukie
    Vazquez is a solid number 3 starter, but you keep playing him up like hes some kind of ace. We can get some runs off him, and hoepfully Demp can find the K zone. Vazquez is 28th in MLB in VORP and 34th in ERA+. He's been some kind of ace.
  20. bukie
    Bogey on 15 (probably the toughest hole on the course) leaves Phil one shot off the lead. Six players still playing within 3 shots of the lead, so it should go down to the wire here. Tiger is currently the clubhouse leader at even par, 4 shots off the current play lead.
  21. bukie
    Phil just birdied 12 to go to 2 under, par for the day, good enough to be 2 shots off the lead.
  22. bukie
    Henrik Stenson is now currently the clubhouse leader at 1 over. If I were him, at the rate things are going, I'd probably stick around and see what happens.
  23. bukie
    Phil birdies the 9th to get back to 1-under for the tournament, tied for 4th place, 4 shots back. Also, some fellow by the name of Woods just barely missed an eagle putt on 13, but the birdie puts him at even par for the tournament, 5 shots back with 5 to play.
  24. bukie
    Barnes just racked up his 4th bogey in 7 holes, and he's now 4 under for the tournament.
  25. bukie
    Yeah, both leaders are 2 over so far today, but Mickelson took a penalty stroke on 6 (his fourth of the tournament, which is hard to do when only one of the holes has water), and bogeyed 7, so he's still 5 back. Hunter Mahan is all of a sudden within 2 shots, though. EDIT: Wait, no, make that 3 back as Mahan bogeyed 8 after blowing a birdie putt 10 feet past the hole and missing the comebacker.
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