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Post by HoyaChris on Feb 4, 2008 15:44:55 GMT -5
Thanks for the lesson in "Rounding 101" HoyaChris, or is that "Rounding 100". While you clearly got AP credit to get out of Rounding 101, this board is often overrun with users who did well in Misconstruing Pomeroy 266.  |
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Post by HoyaChris on Feb 4, 2008 15:27:38 GMT -5
Forget the polls, or even the NCAA tournament. Based on Pomeroy's model, Nova is in danger of not making the BE tournament. Right now, he has them projected to finish in a tie for 12th place with DePaul. Based on head to head play, DePaul would get the slot, leaving Nova at home watching with the Johnnies, Rutgers and South Florida. In the "I have too much time on my hands" department, Pomeroy's model has the Big East going 73-69 in remaining conference games - who's says stats don't lie? Mathematically, that means that 11 teams have projected future win totals that round up (e.g. 4.62 or 5.98) while 7 teams have projections that round down (e.g. 4.43 or 3.01). |
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Post by HoyaChris on Feb 1, 2008 14:06:30 GMT -5
Syracuse grads from their admittedly excellent whoa, whoa, whoa. stop RIGHT THERE! unless there is a smily face or something following a statement like that, this type of pro-orange comment should get your posting priveledges suspended. where are the admins??? i too have the georgetown tivo wish programed in (love the home show about georgetown SC that i got as a result) and I have the 96 bet game on there, i have started to watch it 3 times but couldnt get to the opening tip without turning it off and going to do something more fun like clean the kitchen, too painful still, maybe i will exorcise some demons by watching but i am afraid i will just be depressed for a week instead. i watched most of the Providence game from 96, i had completely blocked that out of my memory, i dont recall that game at all even after watching it recently, and i was an undergrad at the time, strange. also it wasnt much of a "classic," kind of a crappy game i thought and it didnt mean anything in the context of the season either so what was the point of showing it? The use of the word "admittedly" indicates that I would rather not say anything positive about the orange. Would it help if I told you that when I screen resumes that I automatically toss any resume with a Syracuse connection? ;D |
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Post by HoyaChris on Feb 1, 2008 9:22:07 GMT -5
Sometimes paranoia is the answer.
ESPN is chock full of Syracuse grads from their admittedly excellent broadcasting school. Unlike some more recent grads, most of them are quite clear as to who their most hated rival is.
Simply put, they like watching us lose.
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Post by HoyaChris on Jan 25, 2008 9:58:35 GMT -5
Very unfortunate. When's the last time a college player came back at the highest level after basically missing a year? From a Hoya standpoint, top ten Hoya great Craig Shelton had a great Hoya career after missing most of his first year with a knee injury that would appear to have been far worse than what Wright has suffered. |
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Post by HoyaChris on Jan 24, 2008 21:35:35 GMT -5
I have a vague recollection that there was a song done back in the early '60's by Walter Brennan (yes, Grandpa Amos/multi-time best supporting actor nominee himself) in which the title character of the song was named something Rivers. Some of you other geezers on the board, does this ring a bell? Ask and you shall receive. |
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Post by HoyaChris on Mar 1, 2007 8:44:30 GMT -5
Congratulations to lic on 4000 posts!!! Trying to decipher them is better than Sudoku.
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Post by HoyaChris on Nov 3, 2005 14:57:37 GMT -5
I, too, find myself in the extremely uncomfortable position of agreeing with every single word of the_way's post. Let the record reflect my humble concurrence.
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Post by HoyaChris on Oct 19, 2005 16:55:05 GMT -5
So, 'rooter and Chris: Pujols 2000-2005 or Thomas 1990-1997? In the immortal words of Charlie Brown "Aaarghhhh." I am the world's biggest Frank Thomas fan (not to mention that I spotted him early and he made me a three time winner in my fantasy baseball league) but I would probably go with Pujols. This is a marginal call, but Pujols is a much better baserunner, a much better fielder and I believe a much better leader. Hitting is complicated. Thomas has marginally higher OPS for his first 5 full years, but Pujols is significantly better in both Runs (626 to 529) and RBI (621 to 564). Part or maybe all of this can be a function of teammates or ballpark, but I think that OPS and Runs Created may overstate the value of a lot of walks in the middle of the order if the players batting behind the guy with a lot of walks can't drive him in, Thomas's run totals seem kind of light given the number of times that he was on base and the number of times that he drove himself in with Home Runs. The leader thing matters. Even at his peak, Thomas seemed to go his own way a lot. Pujols is absolutely central to everything the Cardinals do. |
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Post by HoyaChris on Oct 19, 2005 3:19:33 GMT -5
I live in St Louis now and am hoping to be seriously conflicted come Saturday. I have been a White Sox fan for over 30 years but living in this town (I moved here years ago) it is hard to not be a Cards fan. Up until now the potential conflict has been irrelevant and their is always a shared hatred of the Cubs to fall back on. Pujols is absolutely amazing. Check out this link to see how amazingly consistent he has been in his first five seasons. www.baseball-reference.com/p/pujolal01.shtmlHe is the best hitter I have ever seen. |
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Post by HoyaChris on Oct 20, 2005 16:54:17 GMT -5
The game is better with the new rules, except for the trapezoid rule that can lead to some truly bizarre situations. The worst stuaton is when a goalie plays a puck coming into the zone with a forward right on top of him and then can't complete the play when the puck slides off his stick 6 inches into the trapezoid without taking a penalty. The rule needs to be changed.
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Post by HoyaChris on Oct 23, 2005 18:16:08 GMT -5
Let's win this one for Frank Thomas and Ron Kittle and Harold Baines and Bill Melton and Wilbur Wood. But mostly let's win it for Bill Veeck (as in Wreck).
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Post by HoyaChris on Jun 13, 2005 18:50:52 GMT -5
As for this thread getting out of control I wrote a long breakdown on Marc Egerson's performance this weekend at McD. I got like two or three responses. What does that tell everyone? I think what it mostly tells us is that most of us have seen movies and few of us have seen Marc Egerson.....but most desperately want to. |
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Post by HoyaChris on Jan 24, 2007 10:58:08 GMT -5
FWIW, 11 out of the top 12 schools had better than a 12% rate of return. Meanwhile, Notre Dame's growth of 21.5% netted some $786 million, just short of Georgetown's entire endowment of $834M. At least we passed Tulsa... The increases cited are not a rate of return. Rather, they represent the sum of all activity, including investment returns, donations and expenditures. |
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Post by HoyaChris on Apr 16, 2005 7:45:03 GMT -5
1) This is a slander that was thrown at JTII during his entire career, given fuel by the fact that he was outspoken and principled. The ugliest moment was when he himself was the target of an overt racist attack inside McDonough during a game in his 3d season in charge. 2) This is a slander that was repeatedly used by opposing coaches to scare away talent. 3) This is a slander that did not stop a few white players (eg, guard and longtime assistant, and successor Esherick) from playing for him. Our last points in the heartbreaking loss to NC in the national championship game were in fact scored by a white player (Blue, I think). 4) JTII's lifelong close friendship with Dean Smith also belies the accusation. Who believes Smith would countenance a racist of any kind? I am white and have always found this accusation personally offesnsive and hurtful. This sort of nonsense has to be countered forcefully, no matter who the perpetrator. The fact that JTII has never allowed it to weaken his principles or his outspokenness or changed him makes me admire and value his example all the more. I would love to be accused of resembling him and I'm white and no biggot. For the record, all of the Hoyas in the 1982 championship game were black. cbs.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/mayhem/history/yearbyyear/1982That being said, the charges that John was a rascist were both pervasive and outrageous. If one looks at the people that John surrounded himself with, they seem almost disproportionally white, e.g. Esherick, Bill Stein, Mary Fenlon, Red Auerbach, Dean Smith, the guys from Nike, the guys from Vegas. The fact is that John is big, is black, and is intimidating as hell in person. And our teams were big, black, physical and intimidating as hell. Bigots use the charge of rascism as a cover for their own fear and the Hoyas at their peak were truly scary. The charge of racism was consistently used against us in recruiting. John went after several high profile white players hard, Rex Chapman in particular, who he thought would be good fits with our style of play. The great irony is that John was accused of rascism for not naming Chapman to the 1988 Olympic roster even though Chapman essentially went 0 for tryout camp. At the same time, and in the wonderful way in which rascists work, he was accused of incompetence for naming an unknown white kid named Dan Majerle to the team. As the years went by, John became increasingly disinterested in the process of recruiting which he considered degrading. In this environment, our roster became increasingly full with players who almost self-recruited us. It is no surprise that our roster was thus overwhelmingly black in his later years. |
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Post by HoyaChris on Dec 19, 2007 8:30:35 GMT -5
As for me I have two favorite teams:
1.) The Hoyas
2.) Whoever is playing Syracuse.
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Post by HoyaChris on Dec 19, 2007 20:21:32 GMT -5
Apparently almost all of our Georgetown seats are in the upper corners. Hopefully, our athletic department will have long memories when it comes time to play Memphis in Verizon.
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Post by HoyaChris on Dec 16, 2007 10:15:16 GMT -5
Trivia question for the old timers - or sort of old timers - Niagara just beat St. John's - the NY Times headline today blared that it was the first time since 1963. In the 1984-85 season St. Johns got upset out of conference once before coming into Landover and beating Georgetown, the first of their four meetings. That is my recollection - one of their weaker OOC opponents beat them. I had thought it was Niagara that beat them that year, by a point. St. John's doesn't seem to have anything like DFW's history project, was wondering if I have the wrong team beating St. Johns early that year. The headline should have referred - and maybe did, I didn't read it - to Niagara winning at St John's. Niagara did win 62-59 that year in Niagara Falls. |
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Post by HoyaChris on Dec 9, 2007 16:42:15 GMT -5
Freeman had a great layup today -- he hung in the air, got hacked, and (I think) switched hands, and still converted the deuce easily. Agree with the above posts that both freshmen are playing well, and will add that they are getting much more PT in the OOC half of the season than any freshman at GU under JTII has previously. Coach must think they are pretty good as well. Really? How about Jeff and Jon as freshmen? |
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Post by HoyaChris on Dec 16, 2007 7:43:09 GMT -5
This morning's Pomeroy ratings are an object lesson in why sample size matters and why ill-informed lashing out at mathematical evaluation models can be quickly made to look silly. As of this morning, the Pomeroy algorithm has us at #7 and favored to win all but three of our games - at Pitt, at WV and at Marquette - despite having had the worst schedule among the Pomeroy top 20. The model also has us favored to win at Memphis.
I admit that having West Virginia as the number one rated team in Pomeroy causes cognitive dissonance, but the simple fact is that West Virginia has been playing better teams than us and has been beating them more soundly than we have until quite recently - West Virginia is also #1 in Sagarin's Predictor model.
To the extent that our rating has been suppressed because we have been "working on things" we should continue to see our rating go up when the work translates into continued success as witnessed in the past two games.
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