stever20 wrote:last year the average bracketologist got a score of 337.8. Lunardi had 344 and Palm 343. So that's above average.... Even with the rating, if you add in all the new people- Lunardi would be #92 of 187. Which would be even with that just above average. People here for some reason want to act like he's awful. But he's just not. The numbers just don't show that at all.
kayako wrote:X-man wrote:Stever20, why do you go onto another BE board to trash BE posters-me in particular-on this board (Link: https://csnbbs.com/thread-774558-post-15252214.html#pid15252214)? Better yet, why don't you just stop pretending to be a BE fan. Everyone knows that you are really an AAAAAAAACCCCC fan pretending to be a BE fan. You ought to be embarrassed.
I feel like the AAC has had to some degree buzzards luck while the Big East has had extremely good luck.
lol
Big East has had a lot of things go just right over the last 5 years to get more bids. Year 1, if Providence doesn't win the BET, they are out of the tourney. 2017, if the injuries don't happen at Xavier and Creighton, Providence and Marquette don't make the tourney. This year Butler gets a last 30 seconds shot to beat Seton Hall, or they're sweating bullets on selection Sunday.
Wizard of Westroads wrote:Here's the rest of Stever's BE luck:Big East has had a lot of things go just right over the last 5 years to get more bids. Year 1, if Providence doesn't win the BET, they are out of the tourney. 2017, if the injuries don't happen at Xavier and Creighton, Providence and Marquette don't make the tourney. This year Butler gets a last 30 seconds shot to beat Seton Hall, or they're sweating bullets on selection Sunday.
Cue the Stever gif!
MarquetteRustler wrote:Wizard of Westroads wrote:Here's the rest of Stever's BE luck:Big East has had a lot of things go just right over the last 5 years to get more bids. Year 1, if Providence doesn't win the BET, they are out of the tourney. 2017, if the injuries don't happen at Xavier and Creighton, Providence and Marquette don't make the tourney. This year Butler gets a last 30 seconds shot to beat Seton Hall, or they're sweating bullets on selection Sunday.
Cue the Stever gif!
stever20 wrote:last year the average bracketologist got a score of 337.8. Lunardi had 344 and Palm 343. So that's above average.... Even with the rating, if you add in all the new people- Lunardi would be #92 of 187. Which would be even with that just above average. People here for some reason want to act like he's awful. But he's just not. The numbers just don't show that at all.
Bill Marsh wrote:stever20 wrote:last year the average bracketologist got a score of 337.8. Lunardi had 344 and Palm 343. So that's above average.... Even with the rating, if you add in all the new people- Lunardi would be #92 of 187. Which would be even with that just above average. People here for some reason want to act like he's awful. But he's just not. The numbers just don't show that at all.
No statistician would call 344 and 343 “above average” when the mean is 337.8. Statisticians refer to “average” as a score that falls within a pre-defined middle range - typically +/- one standard deviation. Otherwise, only 1% (the 50th percentile) of any population would be considered “average” - which is obviously not what we’re talking about when we refer to someone as “average”. Average normally refers to the vast middle of any population. Someone who falls at the 55th percentile is as average as someone who falls at the 50th percentile, or the 45th percentile, etc. The numbers you quote for Linardi and Palm are as average as average can be, nowhere near “above average”. Being slightlyabove the mean or median (mid point) would never qualify as “above average”.
So much of sports analysis revolves around statistics. Unfortunately too many people who throw around stats - including some of the people who publish them - never took a statistics course in their life and don’t really understand statistics.
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