Posts posted by 52-80
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13 hours ago, Frieda’s Boss said:
Does no comments mean no one watches this card? Turned out to be fantastic.
Can’t think of any recent event that was halfway this good. Having no WMMA on main helped 🤣.
Nobody deserves the belt more than Yan. Got robbed in 2 straight decisions. Correct judging aside he’d be 22-3 (actually 23-2 without dumb DQ vs Aljo), with a string of title defenses and firm claim to greatest BW of all time.
Pantoja injury was fucking gnarlly. No dislocation, hyperextension, or bone fractures in this sport grossed me out more than this one. The first snap was nasty enough and the second splay just sickening. 🤢 -
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18 hours ago, wood said:
Lewis's avg was 9.04. The reason people are saying he's done is because he's had a terrible year compared to his teammate this year, as part of a bigger trend vs his teammates, because he's had 9 Q1 or Q2 exits, and because he's been completely uncompetitive in Q the last 4 races while his teammate has averaged P7.
The nuance is that Leclerc is an exceptional 1-lap racer, which exaggerated the Q results.
Trend wise their gap narrowed in the 2nd half of the season, before this recent bad run of form. Shit happens.Maybe he needs Nicole Scherzinger back.
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2 hours ago, PittsburghTiger said:
even though I think he’s one of the best drivers ever I do think he was also in the most dominant and advanced car ever as well.
Some ways to separate the driver from the car is race consistency, control (eg tire management), and rain performance.
Throughout his career he’s been superb at all 3 and especially the rainmaster title its a class of 2 with him and verstappen.
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10 hours ago, Burt Macklin said:
The burning question for this race is if Max is in 1st, Lando’s in 4th and Oscar’s in 2nd or 3rd, does McLaren give Oscar team orders to drop and swap with Lando and does he follow them?
I’m guessing yes to both because Oscar has done everything the team’s asked him so far even when it’s BS, but that would really test the limits of his loyalty.
Let's say Oscar is close in 2nd and fighting for a win. What's the team's legitimate argument for asking him drop places?
From their perspective they already secured WCC, which is the "real" objective of the sport and directly determines the rewards payout.
If you're Google or OKX (the title sponsor), having one of your driver winning WDC is great... but having your driver win the race is good too.
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22 minutes ago, TexasPride10 said:
As a Texas fan, I am obviously biased and think we should get in. But here is my best attempt at an un-biased take:
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If the committee ranks Vandy ahead of us tonight, I will riot.
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.
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13 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:
No. If we are looking at the quality of the wins to compare resumes, we know objectively that Auburn isn't a ranked win. Come on now. The point is to figure out what teams are the best and have accomplished the most, not brag over what were essentially preseason rankings. But shit, if we can just play pretend, I say we are still #1 because we were before week 1 was played.
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.
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1 hour ago, Alien Octopus said:
I do not know if you are supposed to take the rankings when a team played or when the season ends as the comparison point? The notable teams we beat were all top ten when we played them. OU beat Bama when they were top 10. The other ranked teams they beat, mizzou, michigan, tennessee, are not likely ranked anymore. OU's offense has regressed as the year has progressed. They look worse than Iowa on that side of the ball. Not to say that Iowa has not improved. Not sure who I would pick if OU played Iowa today?!
OU should probably be ranked below Vandy looking at the whole team. Pretty sure Texas would beat OU by at least two scores were there a rematch. Either way, the only way Texas gets in is if the CFP corrects the horseshit of having Vandy and OU ranked above Texas. The chances are slim but certainly they can explain this if they do it.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.
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1 hour ago, Dahobbs said:
No it didn't. Auburn is not a ranked team. Tennessee is not a ranked team. Their ranked wins as of today are #10 Alabama, #18 Michigan, and #25 mizzou. Ours are #7 A&M, #8 OU, and # 13 Vandy.
If that's the rule, we can also drop the pitch that Texas has "3 wins against the top 10"
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18 minutes ago, Alien Octopus said:
The committee can easily fix this by ranking Texas above OU, due to our recent performance against the previously ranked # 3 team and OU's dogshit performance against an unranked LSU. The nail in the coffin should be our pasting of OU. That is how they can save face. OU also has some issue with the wr room.
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.
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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.
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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?
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56 minutes ago, BluTechsan said:
Ok.
Who else? Total teams from other leagues? What’s your format?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.
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1 hour ago, Buzzrock said:
So I know nothing about F1, I’m fully a Netflix fan. But it seems to me that it kinda sucks that many races are mostly about pitting strategy vs actual racing / passing. Also, there’s something about the F1 cars not looking like “real” cars that makes it kind of overly clinical.
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
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Random thoughts that don't warrant a thread
in Lulz
was just thinking about how in grade school, me and the neighborhood kids used to play tackle football at the park every saturday rain or shine.
in college i wanted to do it too, we could never gather enough people to do it who wasnt afraid of getting injured, etc. i thought it was super lame. (we managed once at clark field, and nobody got hurt).
anyway, now at my age, i wouldnt play if offered again. apparently my lower back is injured just from sleeping wrong for a few days.