Jump to content

52-80

Legacy Members
  • Posts

    18524
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Reputation

21085 Surly 1%

1 Follower

Titles

  • Title
    code duello

Recent Profile Visitors

The recent visitors block is disabled and is not being shown to other users.

  1. I'd say Texas is superior to Vandy, ND, Miami, and whatever high school team gets in by way of conference championship (Virginia, Tulane), and at the same time none of this group is worthy of being in anyway.
  2. Me, ESPN, NCAA and their official record keeper Stats Perform/LLC/INC, versus: guy on internet.
  3. That's not the rule. Nobody is making that game or making that ex-post claim. Is Ole Miss the de facto 2015 champion because they beat what would later, at the end of the season, turn out to be the #1 team in Alabama? The rankings are as-best-determined at at time of record. They are not retroactively updated at the end - almost nothing in life works this way.
  4. NCAA, ESPN, and the Texas Longhorns record the rankings contemporaneously. IMO this makes sense, because teams trend and the rankings tries -- imperfectly as it does -- to best reflect them. You could argue that the earlier rankings are less reliable and try to unweight them, but the way its done is the way its done and is just as valid.
  5. If that's the rule, we can also drop the pitch that Texas has "3 wins against the top 10"
  6. OU beat 5 ranked teams: 3 of them came in the last 4 games; 2 of those were on the road; 1 of them was Alabama. Their 1 squeaker was against LSU. ** TX beat 4 ranked teams: 2 in the recent half of the season; 1 was on the road. 2 squeaker wins against opponents worse than LSU. ** I think we're a better team than OU and would be on the favored side of a coin-flip, but you can see how their body of work can be vouched for. If hypothetical H-2-H performances is the determinant of playoff contender, we shouldn't even entertain Tulane, UNT, UVA in the group but so far nobody's strongly opposed to their inclusion?
  7. No other leagues are permitted. At the end of the regular season, the SEC starts a 16-team tournament to determine the national champion. Other teams and other leagues play in lesser bowls for consolation prizes.
  8. the clothing. the interviewers gigantic nogging. lane's solemn expression. doesn't look like a real interview, looks like a skit for a sketch tv show.
  9. fits pretty well wearing that 6'7" monster's old shirt
  10. The 3 threads competing for the absolute worst on this hellsite are about: Vince Young Quinn Ewers Arch Manning
  11. It's an engineering contest. F1 is a competition of which team builds the fastest cars, which determines the order. Driver variability adds +/- 2 places. Strategy adds +/- 2. Then luck does the rest. So in a typical race where everything falls near the middle of the +/- distribution and there's no random shit you would see results like: Team A, A, B, C, C, B, D, D, E, F
  12. what the hell happened in the relative performance of albon vs sainz?
  13. 80% of champions come from top 3. #4 has such a marginal probability of winning it all expanding the playoff eliminates the controversy over which team deserves to have that final chance. practically speaking, the 6 and beyond are a moonshot if youre fighting to be #12 youve already lost.
×
×
  • Create New...