Mephistopheles

Fine, it's mostly irrelevant. On the order of a handful of runs per season. or, in reality, on the order of a handful of wins per season.

RBIs How to judge a hitter

http://shades-of-wrigley.blogspot.com/2008/02/equivalent-average-unmasked.html EqA DRA Awesomeness rolled up into a statistic

not true

maybe the trib can try and get a big bailout from obama in order to increase payroll ten fold. oh wait obama would do that for the sox, not the cubs. loser.

i wont win. even if my picks are the *best* based purely on probabilities alone someone elses will be more accurate. it's like playing poker. If I have AA, I have the best hand, but if I let 8 guys in before the flop and I don't know their hands, well odds are I am not going to win. The field has a better chance.

ive been on the stephen drew bandwagon since he got out of college. hated him prior to that though.

i like watching fresno state myself. pat hill games are always entertaining. you never know what shenanigans he's going to pull out.

while we're kind of related to the subject at hand. man it would be great to have a left-handed power hitting shortstop. let's kidnap stephen drew

So, here, we have a statistic that has an extremely large error in terms of actual fielding "production", and that even if we considered that it had no error, it's still 80% randomness. Really there's no use in wasting our time quantifying such data.

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Hosak: "[Meph] is quite ... brilliant"

your damn right it's a gift. its like khalil next year. my thoughts are that his true talent level is a 280 or so eqa, but i am not expecting him to be much more than 265 next season. ive got all my bases covered. its quite brilliant and the reason im hardly ever wrong.

hahaha san diego is so poor they couldnt afford anything but a cab ride from san diego to vegas for towers. and they even had to split the tab halfway with another passenger.

In fairness to Meph (I'm sure I'll get toasted for defending him), but he did say that it would be OU/Texas unless the human polls went extremely heavily toward Florida and away from Texas. And they did just that. Not defending the "i'm a bit of a god" thing, though. and i quote: "Sorry guys, Florida's not jumping Texas if Texas can stay ahead of Oklahoma in half the polls." in fact my computer projections were completely spot on, i got them exact.

Top Three Bowl Games, In My Opinion. 3. Cotton Bowl: #24 Mississippi vs #6 Texas Tech, 1/2/2009 2. Poinsettia Bowl: #11 Boise State vs #10 Texas Christian, 12/23/2008 1. BCS National Championship Game: #1 Oklahoma vs #2 Florida, 1/8/2009 Five Biggest Mismatches: 16.32 Alamo Bowl: #12 Missouri vs #36 Northwestern 12.27 Fiesta Bowl: #8 Ohio State vs #3 Texas 11.80 Hawaii Bowl: #73 Hawai`i vs #51 Notre Dame 10.70 Outback Bowl: #38 South Carolina vs #21 Iowa 10.00 Emerald Bowl: #32 Miami FL vs #19 California Five Closest Matches: .59 BCS National Championship Game: #2 Florida vs #1 Oklahoma .67 Armed Forces Bowl: #67 Houston vs #45 Air Force .78 Sugar Bowl: #9 Alabama vs #7 Utah .81 GMAC Bowl: #47 Tulsa vs #34 Ball St .88 Holiday Bowl: #13 Oklahoma St vs #17 Oregon

But you said that Florida was going to get left out of the title game even if they beat Alabama. Oops. no i said there was a chance. the voters completely flip-flopped on texas. Which wasn't the least bit surprising since they did the same thing with Michigan two years ago. this was a totally different situation.

51.53 East Carolina 49.00 Kentucky

But you said that Florida was going to get left out of the title game even if they beat Alabama. Oops. no i said there was a chance. the voters completely flip-flopped on texas.

75.35 Penn State 69.68 Ohio State 62.68 Iowa 61.44 Michigan St 57.66 Northwestern 55.30 Wisconsin 51.75 Illinois 51.05 Minnesota 49.17 Purdue 43.95 Michigan 35.87 Indiana

oh and leach voted tech #2

how some of the coaches voted Mack Brown: 1. Florida 2. Texas 3. OU Voted Texas #1: 1. Chizik 2. Price 3. Neuheisel 3. Dodge Voted Texas #5 (lowest): 1. Leach 2. Briles 3. Dantonio 4. Schiano urban voted ole miss #12 the zooker didnt vote florida one

1 Oklahoma 25 25 25 25 25 25 1.000 1 0.9757 3 Texas 23 22 24 23 24 24 0.940 2 0.9298 2 Florida 22 24 23 21 22 22 0.890 3 0.9479 7 Texas Tech 21 20 20 24 23 23 0.870 4 0.7840 6 Utah 24 19 22 22 21 21 0.860 5 0.7846 4 Alabama 20 21 21 20 20 19 0.810 6 0.8443 5 USC 17 23 19 19 19 18 0.750 7 0.8208 9 Boise State 19 18 18 18 18 20 0.730 8 0.6980 8 Penn State 18 16 17 16 16 17 0.660 9 0.7387 11 TCU 15 14 12 17 17 16 0.620 10 0.5848 10 Ohio State 16 17 16 12 11 15 0.590 11 0.6354 12 Cincinnati 14 10 15 13 12 14 0.530 12 0.5384 13 Oklahoma St 9 13 8 14 15 13 0.490 13 0.4866 14 Georgia Tech 10 12 10 15 14 11 0.470 14 0.4516 15 Georgia 13 11 13 8 9 9 0.420 15 0.3775 16 BYU 8 15 6 7 7 12 0.340 16 0.3580 19 Virginia Tech 6 1 7 10 13 10 0.330 17 0.2440 20 Pitt 12 3 14 3 5 8 0.280 18 0.2377 18 Michigan St 11 6 11 2 1 7 0.260 19 0.2866 21 Missouri 7 7 3 5 4 5 0.210 20 0.1627 26 Florida State 5 0 2 11 10 4 0.210 20 0.0799 24 Boston Coll 4 0 5 9 8 2 0.190 22 0.1046 17 Oregon 0 9 4 0 0 6 0.100 23 0.3395 28 North Carolina 2 0 1 6 6 1 0.100 23 0.0346 22 Ball State 1 4 9 0 0 3 0.080 25 0.1464 30 Nebraska 3 0 0 4 0 0 0.030 26 0.0113 33 Clemson 0 0 0 1 2 0 0.010 27 0.0033 42 Miami 0 0 0 0 3 0 0.000 28 0.0000 42 Maryland 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 28 0.0000 42 Central Mich 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 28 0.0000 42 South Carolina 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 28 0.0000 42 Wake Forest 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 28 0.0000 42 NC State 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 28 0.0000 42 Fresno State 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 28 0.0000 42 Air Force 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 28 0.0000 42 Arizona 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 28 0.0000

final bcs standings TEAM Harris Rank % of 2825 USA Today Rank % of 1525 Computer % of 100 points Computer Rank BCS Average 1 Oklahoma 2 0.9554 1 0.9718 1.000 1 0.9757 2 Florida 1 0.9827 2 0.9711 0.890 3 0.9479 3 Texas 3 0.9260 3 0.9233 0.940 2 0.9298 4 Alabama 4 0.8644 4t 0.8584 0.810 6 0.8443 5 USC 5 0.8542 4t 0.8584 0.750 7 0.8208 6 Utah 7 0.7501 7 0.7436 0.860 5 0.7846 7 Texas Tech 8 0.7398 8 0.7423 0.870 4 0.7840 8 Penn State 6 0.7738 6 0.7823 0.660 9 0.7387 9 Boise State 9 0.6860 9 0.6780 0.730 8 0.6980 10 Ohio State 10 0.6577 10 0.6584 0.590 11 0.6354 11 TCU 11 0.5593 11 0.5751 0.620 10 0.5848 12 Cincinnati 12 0.5409 12 0.5443 0.530 12 0.5384 13 Okla St 13 0.4963 14 0.4734 0.490 13 0.4866 14 Ga Tech 14 0.4322 15 0.4525 0.470 14 0.4516 15 Georgia 17 0.3604 17 0.3521 0.420 15 0.3775 16 BYU 16 0.3791 16 0.3548 0.340 16 0.3580 17 Oregon 15 0.4287 13 0.4898 0.100 23 0.3395 18 Michigan St 18 0.2942 18 0.3056 0.260 19 0.2866 19 Va Tech 22 0.1809 19 0.2210 0.330 17 0.2440 20 Pitt 19 0.2258 21 0.2072 0.280 18 0.2377 21 Missouri 24 0.1352 23 0.1430 0.210 20 0.1627 22 Ball State 20 0.2156 22 0.1436 0.080 25 0.1464 23 Nwestern 21 0.1940 20 0.2190 0.000 NR 0.1377 24 Boston Coll 26 0.0609 26 0.0630 0.190 22 0.1046 25 Ole Miss 23 0.1462 24 0.1049 0.000 NR 0.0837 26 Florida State 28 0.0152 28 0.0144 0.210 20 0.0799 27 Oregon St 25 0.0807 25 0.0859 0.000 NR 0.0555 28 No Carolina NR 0.0000 32 0.0039 0.100 23 0.0346 29 Iowa 27 0.0237 27 0.0262 0.000 NR 0.0166 30 Nebraska 37 0.0007 33 0.0033 0.030 26 0.0113 31 California 29 0.0113 30 0.0079 0.000 NR 0.0064 32 E Carolina 30 0.0081 29 0.0098 0.000 NR 0.0060 33 Clemson NR 0.0000 NR 0.0000 0.010 27 0.0033 34 Kansas 34t 0.0011 31 0.0066 0.000 NR 0.0025 35 Tulsa 31 0.0071 NR 0.0000 0.000 NR 0.0024 36 West Va 32 0.0067 NR 0.0000 0.000 NR 0.0022 37 Rice 33 0.0028 34 0.0020 0.000 NR 0.0016 38 Rutgers 37 0.0007 36 0.0013 0.000 NR 0.0007 39 Buffalo NR 0.0000 34 0.0020 0.000 NR 0.0007 40 LSU 34t 0.0011 NR 0.0000 0.000 NR 0.0004 40 West Mich 34t 0.0011 NR 0.0000 0.000 NR 0.0004