Detroit Tigers: One and eight sure is great!
Posted in Hockey, analysis, prognostications, shit americans hate, stanley cup, stats on Apr 9th, 2008
It’s time to beat the MSM’s expert predictions. For every round I am going to make predictions on who wins and in how many games. To do this I will be comparing the Goals For and Goals Against for each of the playoff teams and picking the team who has the better goal differential (Very […]
There is just no way, no way, no way you’re going to ask him to come through in this situation.
TAKE HIM OUT OF THE GAME!
Posted in Hockey, analysis, nhl, predictions, prognostications, shit americans hate, standings on Apr 3rd, 2008
So you may remember just under a month ago, I started some NHL playoff prognostications. The question is, how right was I going into the last 2 games of the season. Of course, it’s a bit early, so I also get to make some revised predictions. The key to predicting the future, is to keep […]
Posted in Announcing, Baseball, analysis on Apr 2nd, 2008
Friends, I have seen the light.
Today I was watching baseball. Televised baseball. I encountered:
Quiet, knowledgeable announcers
Announcers that didn’t talk over the game
Announcers that seemed to watch baseball
So while we’re more known for our high-falutin’ takedowns, I’d like to take a minute to throw out some compliments to the announcers that are actually good. Yes, I’ve […]
Posted in Misc, analysis, journalism on Apr 2nd, 2008
Remember that the guy that wrote the immortal words “The truth is, the idea of Juan Pierre was a good one, and still is” just won an award for sportswriting.
Check out the way Tiger coolly dodges the question in classic “I’m just here to support the team. You gotta take it 1 day at a time.” sports interview style, then laughs it off and completely justifies it in a minute and a half.
Also, his wife is hot:
Posted in Baseball, analysis, spocks goatee on Mar 31st, 2008
The NYT runs what is basically a Playboy centerfold for stats junkies like us. Behold Bizarro Baseball!
Alright, so this is just a look at Joe Dimaggio’s 56 game hitting streak, how likely it was, and what might have been, but it’s still some fascinating Spock’s Goatee through the looking glass sorts of things, such […]
Posted in Hockey, Science, alex kovalev, analysis, journalism, moneyball, shit americans hate on Mar 23rd, 2008
Yesterday my friend and co-blogger DrunkenMoose posted an article about Alexei Kovalev and his (in honour of Easter) resurrection. Well, let’s just say that I take issue with this article. For me and others who think there is a large problem with the article: It doesn’t actually tell us anything!
Posted in Hockey, analysis, nhl, playoff races, predictions, projections, shit americans hate on Mar 20th, 2008
Over the last week or so, I’ve done some projections of the final NHL playoff races. Today, I up the ante, with full projections of the entire league based on my formula, which I have modified somewhat.
These projections look largely at the strength of the remaining opposition and obviously upsets and streaks will change things. […]