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whatever it is, it's probably held by Raisin in the Minor Leagues forum Or Fred during a game thread in 2007. I was going to go with Post Count Padder in the Milestone Post thread.
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Meanwhile, at halftime in the Illinois/Michigan game, 6 fouls have been called.
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John Gasaway of Basketball Prospectus posted an article (comically premature edition) on the early season analysis of the Big East, Big Ten and Pac 10. He makes tons of notes, but some things I noticed specifically: - As everyone expected, the two fastest-paced teams in the Big Ten are...Illinois and Northwestern..? - Every team in the Big East plays at a faster pace than any team in the Big Ten. - Every team that has played DePaul, Indiana or Oregon State is going to be subject to a statistical boost at this point in the season (well...except USC). Also, BP (is there a better abbreviation for Basketball Prospectus?) has posted their first round of top 25 rankings. The top 6 is all ACC/Big East, and 7 of the top 8.
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Let me guess...2005 Illinois and someone else.
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As far as Grace, he's going to need the assistance of the Veterans Committee at this point, since he received less than 5% of the votes. And as we all know, the Veterans Committee isn't worth Veterans Committee. Do you honestly think any of those three belong in the HOF? No, but Williams is the closest.
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As far as Grace, he's going to need the assistance of the Veterans Committee at this point, since he received less than 5% of the votes. And as we all know, the Veterans Committee isn't worth Veterans Committee.
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Hard to say for sure on Illinois this year, as to this point they've outplayed pretty much anyone's expectations, and most of that is coming from limiting turnovers and shooting better all-around. Without Randle and Pruitt this year (and despite how large a part of the team they were last year, their weaknesses were in turnovers and poor shooting), the team's been able to shoot a ton better, move the ball around better, and really limit mistakes overall. They've never trailed at the half this season, losing only by a basket to a really good Clemson team and completely losing focus offensively in the last 5 minutes of the Michigan game after tying it at 62. This week they get a rematch with Michigan and another tough roadie at MSU. They need to win the home games and stay with MSU on the road to be a serious challenger to the conference title.
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i think psu wins either 7 or 8 games the rest of the way, ending up 21-10 or 20-11 going into the big ten tourney. their OOC schedule was such a joke that i think they need to end up a couple of games better and then win at least one game in the big ten tourney. I could agree with that and if they play well in the big ten tourney they probably will make it into the tourney Yeah, if they win the Big Ten tourney, they have a decent shot of making it into the tourney.
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Well yeah, I know those, it's that he doesn't explain his basis for defining significant contributor/role player/invisible/etc. Looks that a %Poss of 24% and higher is a Major Contributor, a 20%+ is Significant, a 16%+ is a role player, a 12%+ is a Limited Role, and anything below 12% is nearly invisible. I missed a category. A %Poss of 28% or higher is a "Go-to guy". I'm not sure if there is another tier, but Psycho-T is a go-to guy. It's mostly defined as how often offensive possessions end in their hands for better or worse. A team that distributes the ball completely evenly is going to have a lot of role players. EDIT: Nope, Go-to guy is the highest "level" of contributor, as Stephen Curry leads the nation in %Poss and is listed as such.
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Well yeah, I know those, it's that he doesn't explain his basis for defining significant contributor/role player/invisible/etc. Looks that a %Poss of 24% and higher is a Major Contributor, a 20%+ is Significant, a 16%+ is a role player, a 12%+ is a Limited Role, and anything below 12% is nearly invisible.
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I'm not sure there's such a thing as an easy week in the Big Ten...well, except for Illinois last week (v. Indiana + bye). Illinois this week: v. Michigan @ Michigan State Fortunately, by the first week of February, they'll have already played their road games at Purdue, Michigan, MSU, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Schedule breaks extra rough this year, as their two missing games are @Iowa and vs. Northwestern.
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His "major contributors, significant contributors, role players, limited roles" categories are going to either need a larger sample to be accurate or some fine-tuning. Yeah, I was hoping there'd be an explanation on the main page explaining those, but there was none. He doesn't really measure individual defense, so those rankings seem to be offensive based only with in the very least a large slant towards scoring. The titles are more just fun to see so you can make fun of Chris Kramer being ranked "nearly invisible" Here's the explanations.
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Headline candidates for the HOF over the next 3 years: 2010: Roberto Alomar, Barry Larkin, Edgar Martinez, Fred McGriff, Andres Galarraga, Robin Ventura, Fred McGriff 2011: Jeff Bagwell, Rafael Palmeiro, John Franco, John Olerud, Juan Gonzalez, Kevin Brown, Al Leiter, Tino Martinez 2012: Javy Lopez, Carl Everett, Bernie Williams, Eric Young, JT Snow, Terry Mulholland
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Apologies for the Neyer gushing, but here's another article on why Rickey's SB record is one of the most untouchable records in baseball going forward.
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Why Rob Neyer is one of my favorite baseball writers.
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He's going to Indiana, he just hasn't told you yet. I've seen this kind of thing before.
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That is a lot of information. Speaking specifically of Illinois, it's amazing how good they've been despite almost never getting to the FT line.
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Illinois has been on probation 3 times to my knowledge, twice for football (late 80's, 2004ish) and once for basketball (mid-90s). You can fault Bob Knight (err, I mean Coach Knight) for a lot of things, but running a clean program was always priority #1. Kelvin Sampson, however, is in himself a dirty program.
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Is it too much to ask the Illini to shut them out? Ok, for a half maybe? Truthfully, I just want to see them take care of business and not let IU hang around all game.
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Other than the final score being not at all indicative of the game, Michigan shot 3's extremely well in that game. They're way too dependent on that shot. If it falls, they can beat anybody, if it doesn't, they can lose to anyone.
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So, you are taunting about getting carried away about the results of one or two games, with your reasoning being the results of half of one game. I seem to remember something about pots and kettles.
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I think they need to update post December 15. That has Bears at 14, aren't they 18? Yes, unless San Diego makes the Super Bowl. Go Chargers!
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Not as badly as you might think, should be a close, competitive game. Although, I think Kansas is the most underrated team in the Big 12 right now.
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08-09' Blackhawks (46-24-12) 104 PTS - 4th Seed In The West!
bukie replied to Cynosure's topic in Other Sports
Another absurd Hawks stat: Since Quenneville took over (after the Hawks were 1-2-1), the Hawks are 0-3-4 against Boston/Detroit/San Jose and 21-3-2 against the rest of the NHL (11-0-1 at home). -
Not from how they've looked in the early conference season, but they had the most susceptible non-conference resume after IU (home loss to Temple, loss to Rhode Island, best win vs. a GT team that looks worse each week).
