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Zack Greinke "tries to keep [his] FIP as low as possible ." Well, that worked. Belichick is insane ! CHONE projections for the free agent hitters , and also some UZR projections . Nate Silver unveiled his Soccer Power Index over at ESPN.
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Zack Greinke
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The format of this one is going to be slightly different than our previous over/under contests, since I figured that in the end nobody really cares how many games a team wins in the regular season, or even in their conference. What does matter is what seed you end up getting in the tournament, ...
NCAA Basketball
Last week : MIN: W, 27-10 MIA: W, 25-23 NO: W, 28-23 DEN: L, 27-17 BAL: W, 16-0 OFP had 4.6% of entries knocked out last week, and Yahoo lost 14.9%; the Redskins were a lot more popular in Yahoo!. There are 41,157 entries left in the Yahoo! pool. Teams used (Week 9 DVOA rank): New England ...
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Congratulations to Craig Calcaterra, who's going to be blogging full-time now . A cool new site that shows how much future value each team has in Survivor . Those who signed up for the ESPN Full Court package will be seeing a lot of Craig Brackins . Ken Pomeroy doesn't understand Alabama's ...
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Craig Brackins
Alabama Crimson Tide
Now that we're finally done discussing and rating the 73 power conference teams plus 12 others, it's time to recap the results. Today I'm going to compare our assessments to the conference odds posted at various books in an attempt to find some opportunities; I'm rather confident I discovered ...
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Last week : ATL: W, 31-17 SEA: W, 32-20 GB: L, 38-28 NO: W, 30-20 NE: W, 27-17 OFP had 11.6% of entries knocked out last week, and Yahoo lost 16.8%; the vast majority of this in both pools was because of Green Bay. There are 51,150 entries left in the Yahoo! pool. Teams used ( DAVE rank): New ...
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vegaswatch.net - 11 days ago
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Here's the final conference installment of the mammoth
2010 College Hoops Previews series. This time I'm joined
by JP , ML , and RTC . For more details on what's going on with the ratings, go here and here ; the new regression ratings for the Big ...
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2010 College Hoops Previews: The Big East
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Villanova by the Numbers
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Below is our attempt to catch the non-power conference teams that appear headed toward relevance in March. The standard numbers we look at can be found here ; I only got Randy on board for this one, so all the discussion and ratings are from the two of us. Also note that the order below is ...
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Last week : SD: W, 24-16 CHI: W, 30-6 ARI: L, 34-21 DAL: W, 38-17 IND: W, 18-14 DET: L, 17-10 NO: W, 35-27 OFP had 10.4% of entries knocked out last week; the Yahoo! entrants were a bit more bullish on Arizona, which caused 13.9% of them to go down. There are 60,648 entries left in the Yahoo! ...
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vegaswatch.net - 17 days ago
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First off, here are the final 2009 standings:
Not much has changed since we last checked in
. Most of these got a bit lower, as you'd expect with the slightly larger sample size; CAIRO ended up gaining a decent amount of separation from the pack. ...
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Evaluating April MLB Predictions (2005-2009)
Here's the fifth installment of the mammoth 2010 College Hoops Previews series. This time I'm joined by JP , ML , and RTC . For more details on what's going on with the ratings, go here and here ; the new regression ratings for the Pac-10 are here . All team ratings from kenpom.com , ...
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I don't want to look at them before we finish our previews, but the preseason college hoops rankings were released . Heck, I'm nervous writing this links post . Basketball Prospectus projects the 2009-10 NBA season . " Is Ryan Howard really that bad versus LHP ?"
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Ryan Howard
Apologies for the delay, (hopefully) won't happen again. Last week : IND: W, 42-6 NE: 35-7 OFP had 5.8% of entries knocked out last week, while that figure was slightly lower in the Yahoo! pool, at 3.9%. There are 71,270 entries left in the Yahoo! pool. Teams used ( DAVE rank): New England ...
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There will be a Basketball Prospectus 2010 Major-Conference Preview this year. Also, Gasaway talked to UMHoops.com . Safe ! USS Mariner's DMZ put together a cool iPhone app . An interview with Cardinals AGM John Abbamondi .
