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And then he just laid there like a slug.
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Prichard is much boxier than I remember
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Man, this is a bad game of basketball
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Oladipo gets away with about 9 travels per game.
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Is this Eddie Johnson on color? He's brutal.
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Diaz looks like how this is the first night he's ever seen a basketball
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This is why I think "bad losses" is a rather overrated factor. Who cares? At least for the teams not at the top of the bracket, every NCAA tournament game is against a good team (though, obviously, the tournament has been partially watered-down, but still). Showing an ability to beat good teams should be the most important factor. I think that's largely a different issue all together. Best wins give a measure of how good a team can be at their best. Bad losses give a measure of how bad a team can be at their worst. Both are valid considerations for at-large worth. Of course, how applicable a bad loss or two in Vegas six months before tournament selection is to a team's at-large worth is a separate discussion... Yup, well its been said that the committee weighs the last 10 games more than the first ten, but I'm sure they put all of a team's 'quality wins' and especially 'bad losses' on an equal level. Now I'm almost certain they don't consider that anymore. It's a ridiculous metric to use with such wildly different schedules within a conference, let alone across conferences.
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That would really suck for the Angels if the Rangers added Darvish and Fielder in the same offseason the Angels added Pujols and Wilson. Imagine how the A's and Mariners feel. -
If he is willing to sign for 3/60, the Cubs and other teams would be all over that and give him even more. That doesn't seem possible. If nobody steps in with 6/135, he'll go somewhere for less years and a lower AAV. I don't understand what's so crazy about that.
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This is why I think "bad losses" is a rather overrated factor. Who cares? At least for the teams not at the top of the bracket, every NCAA tournament game is against a good team (though, obviously, the tournament has been partially watered-down, but still). Showing an ability to beat good teams should be the most important factor. This is far less transparent than when you said wearing red uniforms was the most important factor last season.
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Well, that's silly. Maryland sucks.
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It has come together a bit. Those last 2 (8s and 9s on the bracket project) have been changed to a 6 and 5 seed respectively. That leaves just 3 of the 29 brackets with us worse than a 6 seed.
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I thought Palm was basically using straight RPI, but The Bracket Project has us as the 2nd 4 seed right now. ETA: Palm's most recent update is not included in the project, but there are 2 other brackets with us as a 2 seed that are included. ETA: Bracket Project also has 9 Big Ten teams in the tourney, 5 as top 4 seeds.
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Beacause either one franchise has to waste 6 months developing a guy that isn't their property, or another franchise has to watch their prospect stagnate since the other team doesn't care about his development.
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This is mentioned all the time, but does this ever happen?
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And shockingly enough, Carver-Hawkeye????
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Those 8 teams have only 3 wins against each other on the road: MSU @ WIS, WIS @ PU, IL @ NW
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Conference Road games left of 3 loss or better teams: 1 loss team IL: 7 (@ PSU and NE) 2 loss teams UM: 7 (@ PSU and NE) OSU: 6 (@ NE) PU: 6 (None) MSU: 5 (None) 3 loss teams NW: 7 (@ PSU) WIS: 6 (@ PSU) IU: 6 (@ NE)
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If you squint really hard...
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Read.
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He missed the preseason and first 3 games with a heel injury. I'd put little to no stock in how he's looked those random 2-3 times. (Including one which was almost assuredly against one of the best defensive teams in the NBA
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Billy Gillispie is their coach. They may have done so. CBCG is not the type to share.
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No, their software is still all run off RPI, at least as of last March. They may not look at a team's RPI specifically, but all the results are based off opponent RPI (I think they also still look at RPI). If anything, instead of overusing RPI they're just being completely subjective (see: VCU, UTEP, Utah State) and putting in teams they think should get a chance just because. They just made this public. It's supposedly the actual data and team reports that the committee uses and yes it's based on RPI. http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/public/NCAA/Championships/RPI Well that's just stupid.
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I HANG MY HEAD IN SHAME FOR NOT GIVING UP GARZA CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
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I thought it was an open secret that they'd moved on to more advanced statistical models.
