John 3:30 | Fan of Red Sox, Pats, Avs, Nuggets | Bruins, Celtics too | Not Rockies | NOT Broncos | Professional Data Analyst
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I’m not sure if Europeans think because we barely care about soccer that we are entirely unaware of how corrupt their sports are, but we are aware. We make fun of you for it endlessly. Selectively caring about corruption breeds more corruption
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Logan O'Hoppe after Monday's loss, via @RhettBollinger:
"You give everything in this game, and it takes more than it gives. I'm pretty sick to my stomach about it and pissed off. Been pissed off for a while about how things have been going defensively. Been working my ass off to fix it and it's just really frustrating."
People will swear up and down that clutch is a thing, and then when they put together a list of clutch players it’s just a list of all time greats. What does a clutch Wayne Gretzky even look like? They aren’t clutch. They are just good. Period.
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Red Sox 3/31
R. Anthony LF
T. Story SS
M. Yoshida DH
W. Contreras 1B
W. Abreu RF
A. Monasterio 3B
M. Mayer 2B
C. Wong C
C. Rafaela CF
B. Bello SP
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There’s at least the Herbert logic
What was the logic from the 2 Allen voters? It can’t just be the WRs because Maye’s WRs aren’t world beaters either
Didn’t win division, worse in stats, great OL and run game.
Genuinely how does one vote for Allen over Maye/Staff this year?
Idk who needs to hear this (wait yes I do - Red Sox fans), but the real player the Red Sox traded Devers to make room for is locked up until 2034, had a 140 wRC+, and was a gold glove caliber fielder. His name is Roman Anthony and the revisionist history needs to stop.
If you don’t recognize what the committee just did as corrupt and far worse than not honoring head to head, then you are not a serious person. If your initial reaction is that “Notre Dame should join a conference”, and not “the committee is corrupt”, you are not a serious person.
The argument for Miami over Notre Dame is singular - Miami won the head to head.
Every single other relevant data point - every single one - favors ND.
If you rank Miami ahead of ND b/c of h2h, and only h2h, you also have to rank SMU and Louisville over Miami.
Which is dumb.
Well that’s weird, I sought out every ranking system I could find and Miami wasn’t ahead of ND in a single one…. 🧐
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Notre Dame rates higher than Miami in
- every relevant power rating system
- game control
- average win probability
and has outscored their opponents by 6 more points a game despite having the same strength of schedule and Notre Dame going to their backups more often.
Miami deserves to make the playoffs, and there are arguments for them to be ranked over Notre Dame. But there are rational arguments for Notre Dame to be ahead of Miami as well. Pretending Notre Dame doesn’t have a case against Miami is ridiculous. Head to head is not everything
1. Ohio State
2. Indiana
3. Georgia
4. Oregon
5. Texas Tech
6. A&M
7. Notre Dame
8. Alabama
9. Miami
10. Oklahoma
11. Ole Miss
12. BYU
This is the way. Gets the best teams in and isn’t a ridiculous departure from prior rankings
1/2 When ranking college football teams, you compare who teams played and how well they played them - strength of schedule and average scoring margin.
Team | SOS | Avg Mrgn
Indiana | 45 | +29.8
Ohio St | 46 | +25.5
Notre Dame | 42 | +24.4
Miami | 44 | +18.3
Ole Miss | 40 | +14.3
Alex Cora doesn’t believe in Fried’s reverse splits
Or, considering he wrongly claimed Gleyber Torres is pulling the ball more than ever this year (he’s pulling the ball less than ever), maybe Cora is just unaware of Fried’s reverse splits. I wouldn’t put it past him not to know
