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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).
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I wouldn't rule out the possibility of 7 or more Big Ten teams in the tourney if they keep beating each other up, and IU gets beat up. There could be 8 teams in the league with .500 or better records, and if the conference champ ends up with 5 losses (as has happened before), nobody other than IU is really out of contention for a tourney spot yet (PSU and Iowa were closest going into conference, but PSU is now 2-1 already in conference...Iowa is 1-1 with a close game at OSU). Would not surprise me in the least to see MSU, Purdue, Wisconsin, Ohio State, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, PSU or Northwestern in the tourney. I Think Northwestern will fall off even more, but besides that that looks about right Northwestern lost a close game at Stanford, a close game at Butler, a close game at PSU, and a home game to an MSU team that suddenly looks really dangerous. I wouldn't consider any of them bad losses, and they have a good win against FSU. Of course, they do need to start winning games in conference.
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I wouldn't rule out the possibility of 7 or more Big Ten teams in the tourney if they keep beating each other up, and IU gets beat up. There could be 8 teams in the league with .500 or better records, and if the conference champ ends up with 5 losses (as has happened before), nobody other than IU is really out of contention for a tourney spot yet (PSU and Iowa were closest going into conference, but PSU is now 2-1 already in conference...Iowa is 1-1 with a close game at OSU). Would not surprise me in the least to see MSU, Purdue, Wisconsin, Ohio State, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, PSU or Northwestern in the tourney.
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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
I had no idea they were even in the top 8 right now. They suck. But their gs/ga stats would be pretty even if not for the Blackhawks matchups. Edmonton could easily overtake them though, with 3 games in hand and only 2 points behind. Chicago is probably going to end up the 4 seed though, and will be playing a significantly better team in round 1. Yeah, the only way the Hawks play someone like the Coyotes is if they somehow manage to pass a Detroit team that recently realized they will not actually be able to coast to a division title. Barring that unlikely scenario, the Hawks are much more likely to play Calgary/Vancouver/Anaheim in the first round. -
I predict that whoever wins will win by at least 4 TDs. I don't know who will win though. And the losing team will still score at least 30.
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Ten at most, I'd say.
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3-0 final in a bowl game. Wow.
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I'm actually a little geeked about the Illini's chances of winning the Big Ten. Up-to-date Pomeroy projections have Illinois winning the conference by 2 games now.
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Wait who do you want on the Illinois bench? They're both pretty much irreplaceable though...Also Kramer's numbers are down this year, I think he might have taken a step down while Frasier took one up I'm pretty sure he means after this year, as a coach.
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Illinois has been shockingly good the past two big games now (yeah, EMU was in the middle there, textbook definition of a "coasting" game), and they have pretty much the same talent as they did last year. Their major improvement has apparently been the ability to get shots to actually go in the basket, both from the field and at the FT line. Their major weakness, though, is rebounding, which can and will be exploited by any team that crashes the offensive boards at the expense of surrendering transition points (read: nobody in the Big Ten!).
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I think Illinois won last night because they took extremely good care of the ball and did a great job on Hummel defensively. Both of those occurrences had a lot to do with Chester Frazier.
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Actual analysis of the Illinois-Purdue game, with a little extra on how Illinois is doing it: http://www.basketballprospectus.com/unfiltered/?p=104
