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re: Bust a sports myth
Posted on 4/2/20 at 4:27 pm to Diseasefreeforall
Posted on 4/2/20 at 4:27 pm to Diseasefreeforall
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Bust a sports myth
The Astros Cheated.
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Posted on 4/2/20 at 4:27 pm to Dawgwithnoname
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QB's must be dual threats to be successful.
Never heard this one, ever.
Posted on 4/2/20 at 5:04 pm to T
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That Coach K is nothing but class and runs a clean program.
Coach K has the JoePa myth running.
In the 80's it was ONLY Penn State ran a clean program unlike those dirty bastards like Alabama or Miami.
Coach K - never gets investigated. He coached the USA team so he's untouchable.
Posted on 4/2/20 at 5:42 pm to emoney
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“Defense wins championships” I don’t think it’s true in football or basketball. (Baseball maybe with great pitching, and hockey a hot goaltender). Those are outliers, but give me a great offense over a great defense every time.
Have you read Scorecasting? Kind of a Freakanomics for sports, anyway, they bust that myth in that book. Teams that win championships tend to be really good on both sides of the ball. For every outlier like the 2000 Ravens, there are others on offense.
Posted on 4/2/20 at 6:30 pm to H-Town Tiger
quote:It's not like the Ravens offense was bad... they were squarely in the middle of every offensive metric. About 15th.
For every outlier like the 2000 Ravens
Sometimes teams are SO GOOD on one side of the ball, that their advantage on that side of the ball makes up for mediocrity on the other.
The Ravens defense was only giving up 10 pts a game. Their offense was scoring a mediocre 20, but that's still scoring double what their defense was giving up.
It can be the same the opposite way. If you have an absolutely dominant offense, you can get away with a mediocre defense.
But no team can win if you're bad on one side of the ball. It's either good on both sides, or amazing on one side and mediocre on the other.
This post was edited on 4/2/20 at 6:32 pm
Posted on 4/2/20 at 7:47 pm to PrimeTime Money
Of the 22 players from the 95 list, only 4 took less than 3 3s per game.
Of the 24 from the 20 list, only 6 took more than 7 a game.
Taking a quick glance at it - there is zero chance of me doing all the math on this - it looks like the elite guys in 95 were taking approximately 5 3s per game and the 20 guys were taking around 6 per game. Not a huge difference.
Btw, for ‘20, the league wide shooting percentage for 3s is 35.7%. In ‘95, it was 35.9%. The guys now have been taking them their whole lives. For the ‘95 guys most of them didn’t start shooting 3s until late high school or until they got to college. NBA didn’t introduce it until 1980. All colleges didn’t have it until either 85 or 86. Believe it was 89 or 90 before every state’s high school league adopted it. If you were 4th year pro in 1995 at say 25-26 you didn’t take your first three until college at the earliest and that’s only if you were a guard, maybe if you were a smaller forward.
Of the 24 from the 20 list, only 6 took more than 7 a game.
Taking a quick glance at it - there is zero chance of me doing all the math on this - it looks like the elite guys in 95 were taking approximately 5 3s per game and the 20 guys were taking around 6 per game. Not a huge difference.
Btw, for ‘20, the league wide shooting percentage for 3s is 35.7%. In ‘95, it was 35.9%. The guys now have been taking them their whole lives. For the ‘95 guys most of them didn’t start shooting 3s until late high school or until they got to college. NBA didn’t introduce it until 1980. All colleges didn’t have it until either 85 or 86. Believe it was 89 or 90 before every state’s high school league adopted it. If you were 4th year pro in 1995 at say 25-26 you didn’t take your first three until college at the earliest and that’s only if you were a guard, maybe if you were a smaller forward.
Posted on 4/2/20 at 10:19 pm to Diseasefreeforall
Duke runs a clean program
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