Category: Sports
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Here is my updated tennis plot of all of the number 1’s post-French Open: The 19 number 1’s. Cheers.
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I was going to write a post about increasing the number of judges in a boxing match to cut down on crazy decisions like what we saw last Saturday, but Ken Pomeroy has already suggested it here: How Crazy Was The Pacquaio-Bradley Decision? Bradley Had A 0.03 Percent Chance Of Being Randomly Judged The Winner. Cheers.
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Massive confusion about a study that purports to show that exercise may increase heart risk Cheers.
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StatsInTheWild MLB rankings as of June 9, 2012 at 10:13am. SOS=strength of schedule Team Rank Change Record ESPN TeamRankings.com SOS Texas 1 – 34-25 1 2 13 NYY 2 ↑3 32-25 10 3 5 Tampa Bay 3 ↓1 33-25 7 1 3 Toronto 4 ↑3 30-28 18 5 2 Boston 5 ↑4 29-29 12 9…
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I jsut read this article (Paul Konerko Is An MVP Candidate, And Possibly Psychic) on Deadpsin. Paul Konerko is having a very good year so far. So good that he showed up at number 1 in my rankings. At first, I thought this must be a mistake. How could he be ahead of Josh Hamilton who has…
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StatsInTheWild MLB rankings as of May 28, 2012 at 1:30pm. SOS=strength of schedule Some comments: ESPN ranking the Dodgers number 1 is an absolute joke. Yeah, they have the best record in baseball, but they also have the weakest schedule in baseball. 38 of their 47 games so far, almost 81%, have been against teams…
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StatsInTheWild MLB rankings as of May 23, 2012 at 11:51pm. SOS=strength of schedule Team Rank Change Record ESPN TeamRankings.com SOS Texas 1 – 27-18 3 2 14 Baltimore 2 ↑3 28-17 2 1 5 Toronto 3 ↑4 24-21 8 5 3 TampaBay 4 ↑4 27-18 5 4 4 LADodgers 5 ↓1 30-13 1 3 30…
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The Best Shooters In The NBA, And Why Field Goal Percentage Can’t Identify Them Cheers.
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Sketches: How Mariano Rivera Compares to Baseball’s Best Closers
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What If Every Pitcher In Baseball Were Mariano Rivera? Cheers.
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