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  1. Sure, if you consider being the 4th best conference (at best) and lagging behind mid-major conferences actually good. When I say they were good, I mean they were good compared to the Big 10.

    Whatever - you’re right.
  2. 52 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    How does their conference schedule work now?  I doubt they play 13 series, do they?  Did all the top 20 teams play each other?

    For the most part yes even though they don't all play 13 series. It can be unbalanced as it was for Arkansas who played both Florida and Georgia. aggy really got the short end playing the top three from the East as well has having to play Piggy and Ole Miss in their own division.

    That said, I can see the argument where they might be in trouble simply because they lost so many games. They got South Carolina, Florida, and Ole Miss at home and went 3-6 against them. It will be interesting to see what the committee does. I think they get in regardless but get a really low seed. 

  3. 51 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

    The bigger issue is that back when the SEC wasn't good at baseball the NCAA committee would give them berths and regionals because the tournament "was supposed to be regional in nature" and they didn't want there to be too many teams from the West.

     Funny how that's not a thing anymore now that the SEC is good at baseball. If the system were fair then the Pac-12 and Big 12 would take the places from deserving SEC teams because that happened for decades when the East was worse than the West.

    I'd love nothing more than to see the SEC (especially aggy) get hosed but I disagree that the SEC hasn't been good at baseball. In fact, I can't remember a time when the SEC wasn't good at baseball. Now have they been given the benefit of the doubt more than they should? Absolutely. But I don't see how that's relevant to this year when they are actually good and likely deserving of a ton of bids.

  4. 44 minutes ago, utee94 said:

    ^^^^^^

     

    ACC got extra benefit from the Selection Committee for decades, too.  Southeastern schools from the SEC and ACC would take 3/4 of the regionals, while the really good teams from Texas and the West were getting funneled into the other 1/4 of them.  Absolutely ridiculous, and as you point out, the southeastern schools are still benefitting from this regional bias.

    Anyway, all you can do is win.

    The ACC is criminally overrated in baseball. No argument there. 

  5. I think LSU is the team that has to worry - #43 RPI and #102 Non-conference SOS. That said, are there really that many teams better than the 11 in the SEC that appear to be qualified? 

    This is kind of like the Big XII in basketball - we had three teams with losing conference records make the big dance. There may not be anyone better and they have to fill out 33 at-large teams. 

  6. so who is in the regionals? Texas, Tech, Ok St, and ou for sure. maybe bu?
     
    holy shit texags think 11 sec teams make the regionals. WTF?


    SEC has 11 teams in the current RPI top 50 so on the surface it’s not an unreasonable take.

    The non conference SOS of some of them are putrid though.
  7. If you get your rpi by losing to a bunch of good teams, how does that show that you belong in the tournament?


    It’s not entirely the case for them. I think their record is skewed due to the quality of teams in their conference. They have some good wins too - including over us.
  8. If they lose the opener in the SEC tournament they won't get in. I'm almost positive. They might even need a couple wins in the SEC tournament. They're #21 in RPI now.
     

    Yeah just looked and their RPI took a big hit.
  9. aggy 4 games below .500 in the SEC. That aren't getting in if they lose that SEC tournament opener. 


    Losing 2 of 3 at home to Carolina sucks but they’re getting in. SEC is brutal this year - 3 of the top 4 in RPI and aggy played them all (going 2-7 against them.)
  10. 11 hours ago, Michael Knight said:

    The main problem with str is DN annihilate and traya isolate. The 2 worst mechanics in any raid ever

    and the unlimited stacking tenacity, and the crappy rewards, etc. Just not worth the grind.

    I did quit for a while then Rimbo convinced me to join his casual guild. I'm actually enjoying helping these noobs out - having fun with that and not nearly as time-consuming. They finally got enough people to register for their first territory war today, and I'm pretty sure it is going to be a complete disaster (they don't have Discord or Line). Will be amusing to watch though.

  11. On 4/19/2018 at 11:02 AM, Bigpoppapump said:

    I played it for a few months. It was fun but this was during beta and they kept tweaking it in weird ways and made the pvp less and less fun, to the point where you basically had to have the meta.

    Yeah I'm discovering that a bit myself - not as bad as ships in SWGOH but close. I just make a point to target teams with Crossbones on defense since the AI is stupid with him (taunting so you can kill him off before his explosion). Currently running Capt America, Gamorra, Quake, Yondu, and Night Nurse in arena and liking the results. I'll sub Drax for Night Nurse once I have him unlocked and geared. Yondu is great but sometimes RNG hates you when he summons his goons. 

  12. 41 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

    Not a fan of “if you take out...” stats, but...if you take out LMJ’s 4th inning in Minnesota, what do the starter stats look like?

    LMJ’s ERA drops from 3.71 to 1.64.

    (gave up 8 in that 1 inning. Has given up 6 in his other 33)

     

    Nothing wrong with doing that in this case as that one inning is a clear outlier. 

  13. 16 hours ago, dieucla98 said:

    Where are you seeing that? I can book biz and first seats on the flight to LHR both for today's flight and tomorrow's. 

    They can oversell the cabin and don't forget about upgrades. That said, anything above a 50-60% load factor for paid business class is great. IIRC all you have to do is sell business at that rate and the rest of the fares are pure profit. So if they are flying with a full business class every day then BA is printing money on this route - which is great for both BA and Austin.

  14. 8 minutes ago, BoomMF said:

    Check out the Greg Maddux one if you haven't. 

    That's the best one IMHO. This one is better than the original Kris Bryant one because he was recognized - nobody recognized Goff.

    Edited to add the Maddux prank: 

     

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  15. 7 minutes ago, irishtexan said:

    I feel like there are too many question marks with all of the top QBs to get someone to give up three first round picks for the Giants number two. But GMs do dumb shit when they're desperate for a QB so anything can happen I suppose. I think I like Rosen the best, but what the fuck do I know.

    I think we are seeing the overvaluation of QBs reaching its peak. IMHO Allen is the only first round prospect of the bunch and he's a late first rounder at that. The rest are 2nd round or later quality. 

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