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I hope you are wrong on the second part. Wisky went in and won at Texas, who might end up with a 1. They also swept IU. Just because they don't have any names, doesn't mean they aren't very good. If they win out they should be a 2. Wisconsin is the best of the lot, but the Big Ten is way down this year, non-conference RPI worse than the MVC, and there's been no "clear" best team. If Wisconsin had gone, say, 17-1 or 18-0 in the Big Ten, a 2 would have been a possibility, but the flaws in the other BT tourney teams (Indiana beat down by UConn, Purdue's bad early losses, Michigan State looking awful in conference) are going to end up reflecting on the quality of Wisconsin's team, IMO. If I had to seed 1-4 today, I'd probably go 1. Memphis, North Carolina, UCLA, Tennessee 2. Texas, Kansas, Louisville, Duke 3. Georgetown, Vandy, Xavier, Stanford 4. Connecticut, Wisconsin, Drake, Pick an Indiana Team/Marquette
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I think Xavier gets a 3 seed, and no Big Ten team ends up higher than a 4. Still plenty of games to play, though. I'll start an NCAA tournament mock selection/discussion thread soon. Probably Monday.
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Cactus League: 2/29 Cubs (Z) vs. Giants (Sanchez) 2:05 CT
bukie replied to otis89's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
I shudder to consider the spot the Cubs would have to be in for this lineup to happen in the regular season. :) -
Maybe he wants someone to be on base a lot for Soriano. You know, since teams will intentionally walk Soto so frequently.
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So, who'd be up for another mock tournament selection committee this year? Hoping to get interest from about 8 this year (ended up with 2-3 that completed the process last year). Selection would be 2 weeks from today, and would require a decent commitment over the 4-day weekend of the actual selection (Thursday-Sunday). If there's enough interest, I can post a lot more of the specifics.
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Zell will consider selling naming rights to Wrigley Field
bukie replied to BleedCubbieBlue81's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Big Red Field would really stink, wouldn't it? Orbit Field, Eclipse Park, Big League Chew Stadium... Yeah, it could be bad. -
I think what the great majority of the media doesn't understand is that it's largely not the fact that Gordon changed his mind that upset the Illinois fans, it was the fact that he denied he was doing so right up to signing day, leaving Illinois recruiting with absolutely nothing. If he had openly stated he was reconsidering his options when he actually started reconsidering his options, Illinois would have had time to recruit other players to fill the space if he left. Reneging on signing day meant Illinois had absolutely nothing there and nothing in the pipeline. Anyway, to lighten the mood, any time I get sick of this current squad, I just go back and watch this game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTbE4eC-AIc.
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Zell will consider selling naming rights to Wrigley Field
bukie replied to BleedCubbieBlue81's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
They could rename the thing Wrigley Stadium for all I'd care if the Cubs could manage to win a championship. -
Win Share totals (with Cubs): Grace: 293.4 Chance: 235.6 Cavaretta: 229.5 Lee: 87.1 Based on that, it looks like I'd have to go with Gracie.
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I need a 3-sided coin to flip to decide between Cavaretta, Chance and Grace.
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I could see this vote being the closest, as I consider Chance, Cavaretta and Grace's Cub careers to be very very similar. Lee could have a shot if he keeps going another 5 years with the club.
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I would say it's odd that Chance isn't even an option, even though he's in the Hall of Fame (albeit one of the least deserving HOF-ers), and Cub first-basemen through the ages haven't exactly been first-balloters.
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So, a few friends and I are looking to start up a fantasy league, but we wanted to do something different. We want to keep it 5x5 rotisserie, but completely avoid pointless counting stats, while keeping with a general theme of diversity in players. So, these were the stats we were thinking of at this time: Offense: OBP, SLG, BB Rate, K Rate, SB% Pitching: OBA, SLGA, WHIP, K/9, HR/9 Now, my biggest issue with this is certain stats will end up having some type of redundancy, like OBP and BB Rate, or OBA-WHIP and SLGA-HR/9. Could just use a single all-encompassing sabermetric stat, but that completely eliminates the diversity of players, which is the reason we want to separate it into 5 stats. Also, some of the sabermetric stats make it difficult to calculate an aggregate of all the players, unlike the stats we listed (which can be discerned rather easily from weekly box scores). The real trouble is finding 5 differentiating stats when players truly have complete control of basically 3 things offensively (patience, power, speed) and 3 things pitching (walks, strikeouts, HRs). Any better rate stats to use that don't get too all-encompassing?
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If Soto hits 20 homers, he's already one of the top 10 catchers in fantasy league, unless those are his only 20 hits of the year.
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As far as Midway goes, I know there are a bunch of decent-looking hotels just south of the airport, less than a mile. That hotel area is recently built up, but the surrounding area isn't exactly the most pleasant area. Never actually stayed at the hotels, though (seeing as I live about 10 miles south of the airport, it'd be a pointless exercise).
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For the SIU fans, BP has an article up that analyzes their at-large possibility, along with the at-large possibility of the other Bracket Buster participants. EDIT: Also, for the Big 6 conference fans, here's this week's conference efficiency ratings.
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Selection Sunday is March 16th. Seems really late, but makes sense since they extended the season by 2 games. The mock committee did really well last year, nailing 64 of the 65 teams.
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Maybe I'll have to do the mock selection committee thing again. It's not for another 2 weeks, though, right? I sadly admit I haven't been following college basketball as closely this year with the record setting effort the Illini are putting forth this year being most halftime leads blown.
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If people like it, it can't be good.
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yeah but everyone assumes that some of those guys are going to be moving elsewhere. it's very possible that they all stay in the place they were drafted, then you're up crap creek without a paddle because you've shed a lot of salary and there's nobody out there to sign. Yeah, well the Bulls know nothing about this strategy ever failing. ... Yeah, the plan of "save as much money for the big free agent year, and then land a Tracy McGrady" worked marvelously back in...what was it, 2001?
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According to WA82 (wins added per 82 games), Noah has been the second biggest contributor on the Bulls this year, behind Smith. WA82: 1. Joe Smith 0.89; 2. Joakim Noah 0.75; 3. Aaron Gray 0.35; 4. Tyrus Thomas 0.24; 5. Luol Deng 0.20; 6. Kirk Hinrich -0.14; 7. Demetris Nichols -0.21; 8. Andres Nocioni -0.22; 9. Adrian Griffin -0.36; 10. Ben Gordon -0.58; 11. Thomas Gardner -0.74; 12. Thabo Sefolosha -1.39; 13. Ben Wallace -2.04; 14. Chris Duhon -2.44
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Tampa Bay's (projected) sailboat stadium
bukie replied to Schwarber Fan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Maybe they could just eliminate that right field wall as the stadium gimmick, and just end the outfield at the water. In the water is a HR. -
I would like to see Archuleta cut. Isn't Arch a huge cap hit though if he's cut? Maybe the Bears think it'd be more worth it to keep him on since they'd need the cap room more than the roster spot. He could play some on special teams, or something.
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True, not my fault all that happened while I was at lunch. I had the Deron Williams thing all queued up and ready to go. :P
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Maybe if your posts didn't read like this 95% of the time anyone wants to talk basketball, people would be more apt to discussion.
