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puppetmaker) wrote2010-09-14 08:38 am
puppetmaker) wrote2010-09-14 08:38 am
Tuesday Morning Quarterbacking Week 1 2010 Season
Football was played over the weekend and we had two games last night.
This week a lot of upsets if you can have upsets in the first week. Also a lot of fantasy teams were decimated as player after player went down. This affected Eagles Fans I think more than anyone else.
Also it is interesting to see the new concussion rules in play. Along with some really wacka-doodle new rules about what you can and cannot do on the field. “Launching” yourself into someone is a new no-no. And one game was lost due to the player not understanding the control of ball rules. That one had to hurt a lot. I am surprised considering the number of pre-season games that the rules aren’t better known.
It was also interesting the number of “super bowl bound” teams that had a loss this week. They didn’t play particularly well in the pre-season but everyone chalked that up to saving players and arms for things that mattered. But most of the mistakes in the game were the same ones that were made in the preseason games.
In college football, there seems to be a great debate at which teams are worthy for bowl contention based on their schedule not on the number of wins. And if a worthy team is beaten by a not-worthy team, then does it become a not-worthy team automatically and thus other worthy teams games against them don’t count? The bowl system is FUBAR’d and has been ever since someone decided that we needed a clear “winner” for the season. And I don’t think it is going to get any better any time soon.
Baseball is still going. We are in September and have a pretty good idea who is going to the playoffs this year. Some races are still a little tight but most are pretty much a lock at this time. Braves vs. Yankees is my bet for the World Series.
I am grateful for the number of sports played at this time of year.
This week a lot of upsets if you can have upsets in the first week. Also a lot of fantasy teams were decimated as player after player went down. This affected Eagles Fans I think more than anyone else.
Also it is interesting to see the new concussion rules in play. Along with some really wacka-doodle new rules about what you can and cannot do on the field. “Launching” yourself into someone is a new no-no. And one game was lost due to the player not understanding the control of ball rules. That one had to hurt a lot. I am surprised considering the number of pre-season games that the rules aren’t better known.
It was also interesting the number of “super bowl bound” teams that had a loss this week. They didn’t play particularly well in the pre-season but everyone chalked that up to saving players and arms for things that mattered. But most of the mistakes in the game were the same ones that were made in the preseason games.
In college football, there seems to be a great debate at which teams are worthy for bowl contention based on their schedule not on the number of wins. And if a worthy team is beaten by a not-worthy team, then does it become a not-worthy team automatically and thus other worthy teams games against them don’t count? The bowl system is FUBAR’d and has been ever since someone decided that we needed a clear “winner” for the season. And I don’t think it is going to get any better any time soon.
Baseball is still going. We are in September and have a pretty good idea who is going to the playoffs this year. Some races are still a little tight but most are pretty much a lock at this time. Braves vs. Yankees is my bet for the World Series.
I am grateful for the number of sports played at this time of year.
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Thing is, there is something to say about strength of schedule. As much as Boise State has proven they can play with the big boys, they're still only playing 1-2, maybe 3 games a season against them, sometimes including the bowl game. Meanwhile, the other undefeated/one loss teams in the strong conferences are fairly consistently playing 4-6 teams of higher quality than the bulk of Boise State's schedule. If you somehow calculated an accurate "percentage of the time these two teams played that team A should win", Boise State's odds of running the table, obtained by multiplying that stat from each game, would be considerably better than the team having to play more games where their odds are, say, 60% rather than 80%. Also, odds of injury are probably higher against the better teams, if for no other reason than they probably have more of the 300 pound behemoths playing.