The Goat Pen

If Hedge ever made a valid point it was on accident

Houston is Sampson's last job, he's got the Bob Knight at Tech, Eddie Sutton at Oklahoma State deal at Houston where his son Kellen Sampson is scheduled to be hired then fired after he retires.

The repository of personal wealth for Americans is hobbled by...high prices?

Why is Thailand rigging up their buildings under construction with explosives and staging earthquakes to cover for it?[/9-11 truther]

Hopefully death

I would be 59 I think when my daughter graduates, 62 for the one that's not born yet.

Why the fuck did I pick ACC teams to win games.

The infowars guy was murdered outside his apartment in Austin, but I dont know or never heard if that was just Austin crime or related to some politics craziness. Swatting is where someone calls the police with a spoofed number and tells them some story like you've murdered your wife, or are shootin...

Texas was able to win eek out 8 SEC wins (including the tournament) to go 8-13 overall or whatever, but they didn't beat anybody out of conference. I thought they were in real trouble at the start of SEC season, because I just couldn't see them doing well at all in the SEC and they had few of the wi...

They’re fighting Hitler!

Roberts is right and Roberts is wrong. Obviously, impeachment is not the mechanism to fight single lawful judgements. However, it absolutely would the Constitutional solution if the legislative branch feels that a judge's ruling is based on politics or anything else outside of the law. The Supreme C...

That's everywhere man, not just local to you.

hedge wrote: ↑Tue Mar 18, 2025 3:49 pm "Wins and losses are the stat that counts."

Why?

Is this a serious question?

The NCAA actually included an evaluation with NET this year that is a resume metric. It is called wins above bubble or WAB. UNC’s ranking was 42 so in line with a bubble team. The stat uses NET to determine what the expected record the #45 team in net would have against your schedule and subtracts t...

Yes, virtually the same in terms of points, but an 0-18 season and therefore an awful basketball season nevertheless. Wins and losses are the stat that counts.

NET may take the human element out, but that doesn’t change the fact that it is not intended to be used to measure how deserving a team is to make the NCAA. It measures how good a team appears based on efficiency, but is silent on whether you win the games. If UNC beats Duke by 1 point or loses to D...

The quad rankings are just used to summarize each team results. They can and do look at who a team beat and lost to individually. UNC’s resume was very weak because they didnt beat any trams that NET considered good.

NET barely takes wins and losses into consideration at all. Thats why UNC looks can still look good. Its an efficiency ranking. Scoring more points per 100 possessions is better, allowing fewer points per 100 possessions is better. The raw numbers are adjusted for the strength of the opponent you pl...

Saint wrote: ↑Mon Mar 17, 2025 11:55 pm Why don't they just feed the tourney into AI and play it that way? It'll be about the same as playing it without all the extra cost and trouble of actually playing it.

Thats already what this all is (the universe)

SEC is overrated. I have them losing more games than any conference in history in this Tournament.