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TheYoungHorn

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  1. Exactly, there is no "trending" model that I know of baked into this particular model. Some of the other computer models do have that, for example the Cosgrove model at collegefootballpoll.com who is .544 ATS this year. And his model has Texas as -1.04 this weekend in Stillwater. For reference, his model also has Texas ranked at #12 (http://www.collegefootballpoll.com/rankings/)
  2. How are you performing this season while betting every single game? Predicting college football games is incredibly hard, and while the model is far from perfect, his five factors have done a good job of helping better predict who will win games based on the factors that determine successful football teams from publicly available box-score and play-by-play data. If he was any better at it, I doubt he would be publicly sharing the data with the whole world, as he would be busy using his black box to make a fortune in Vegas. Can we all just admit that Texas has played a lot of bad football this season even while winning almost all of their games, and that his system ranks all of those bad stretches and plays equally as the good football we have also played? We can disagree on if the bad stretches of limping to close results against bad teams is some super secret, MENSA-Jedi strategy to sandbag the S&P+ rankings so analytics-obsessed opponents will under rank Texas and Longhorn fans will have a new enemy to direct their hate toward, and not indicative of the team they are (or can be) as a result, but it's easy to see why this particular Texas team does so poorly in this rankings.
  3. Simon, as I think they are probably doing in other spots across the country is going to have to break up that space and look at specialty retail and other "entertainment" focused tenants.
  4. Of course this is how they are making money. Did any one think any different? The HFT pay a bit to get access to guaranteed money on every single transaction they facilitate. Which, in some ways might be better than you paying a brokerage house a per transaction fee for them also to "sell" your trade to a match-making HFT. Either way, there is someone faster than you, and they are going to skim a bit off (rent-seeking FTW).
  5. It's fun that Texas is actually winning games so us fans can now join the complaining against computers debate again.
  6. Because the board continues to be a willing participant in enabling his fraud, making it legally speaking not fraud.
  7. Stopped in recently and they are now making their own flour and corn tortillas. Not sure how long this has been going on, but years ago when I ate lunch there once a week it was definitely not the case.
  8. Plus the massive golden parachute he will get in addition to pilfering from the shareholders all the real estate and brand equity.
  9. Because when you think about it, simpler is always better. Occam's razor, etc.
  10. 26 and 5 in Giblet's Veer and Shoot, even with these same guys on the offensive line would be fun to watch.
  11. Of course it would. Because he wouldn't have the benefit of light boxes, open space and an offensive line that excelled under a simpler and more direct system.
  12. The fact that the only unification that appears from the outside to be happening, is a Laura Morrison lead push to move us further into the do-nothing camp on Land Use issues, is concerning. We need a clear picture of who is going to step up and lead us as an actual counter to those forces, and a vision for how to engage the city's population in working alongside to work for positive, proactive changes that might have the teeth to shape the compact/connected city we claim to want. Not just incremental improvement in representation in regards to some of these issues.
  13. Exactly. Which is why I am saying we need more than just people who run on a platform of "affordability for all" and appear to be pseudo YIMBYs. Ie, to get anything done we need to start demanding that those who want to make progress on land use issues that we have to stand up and lead, tell the stories why it matters to everyone in this city now (and who will move here) and not try to negotiate or accommodate people/factions that have done everything in their power, and thus acquired and wielded said power in the first place, to stop any form of change or growth that veers from their idealized version of what Austin was, or should be.
  14. If she is ready to go to bat against the NIMBY wing, then count me on board as a District 1 resident. So, is she?
  15. Even if Kronk can pull a rabbit out of his hat, and somehow lead this circus into something, anything close to sensibility, how long will it take? I'd imagine 3 years would be the fastest anything could happen. But I highly doubt it.
  16. Yeah, Pollo Tropical is awesome. Grilled chicken with great black beans and rice. Plus some of the other sides were very good. The group that runs them and Cabana didn't really understand how to expand into a new market and are brain-dead marketers.
  17. They are actually probably using them to help make dealing easier.
  18. But as mentioned above, hard to go wrong with Dos Batos.
  19. Also Schlotzky's and McAllisters if you are into those places.
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