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Numbers Game: So You're Saying There's a Chance!
Well, that sucked. Everyone needs to read Peter's beautiful tome on how to handle ourselves in this incredibly unfortunate (and in our minds unjust) situation. But the chances of Texas going to the BCS National Championship game are not gone. Take a look at the BCS standings: ...
Numbers Game: BCS Analysis
Enough with the niceties. Down to the nitty-gritty of the BCS numbers. Note that the 1 member of the Harrris Poll that forgot to vote last week is back so the "Last Week's Points" amount is irrelevant for that poll. Harris Poll Last Wk Pts Expected Pts Actual Pts Diff. from...
The Numbers Game: A BCS Status Update
If you missed last week's BCS Numbers Game, take a quick read here of the section "An Explanatory Prelude That Seems Simple But is Oh So Important." It will give you a background for the numbers we're looking at here. So let's step right up and take a look at the two human polls (note: some idiot...
The Numbers Game: 40 Days and 40 Nights of BCS Posts
So we've seen the new BCS poll, Peter's taken us through the various scenarios in which Texas can make a BCS game and/or the national championship game, and HornBrain has fired his perpetually delayed weekly salvo of hate in the war against Richard Billingsley's awful computer ranking system. But...
The Numbers Game: Schlabach Hate Week Continues!
I've got nothing personally against Mark Schlabach. He's not my favorite college football writer, and he's not my least favorite either. I've generally had no opinion on him. Until this week. This week he wrote one of the most asinine columns I've ever read. I understand columnists often feel...
The Numbers Game: Stats are for Losers
"Stats are for losers. I like winning games." - Will Muschamp Gee thanks, coach. No, in fairness to his intellect and my sense of self-worth, Muschamp was saying that there's no sense in gawking over gaudy defensive statistics if you're not winning games. And I totally agree. Statistics...
Playing the Numbers Game - Brain Style: Big 12 Opener
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The Numbers Game: Bend But Don't Break?
The more yards a defense gives up, the more points it's going to allow, generally speaking. This is a pretty obvious tenet of defensive football. The more yards you give up in a game, the closer the opposing offense is going to be to the scoring zone, and thus the more likely those yards are...
The Numbers Game: Introducing the Explosive Plays Project
Greg Davis and Mack Brown are enamored of explosive plays. The Burnt Orange Nation is concerned with the lack of explosive options on offense. Why all the hubub? As whills said (uh, sort of, anyway), doesn't a more consistent offense obviate the need for explosive plays? If you control the ball...
The Scoring Zone Offense: 2007 Season Review
I’m back. Finally. Between closing a deal at work to writing/editing my chapter in the Eyes of Texas 2008 to looking for and moving into a new apartment (who was it that said that real estate in New York City is less a business than a blood sport?), I’ve been too busy to do much of...
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