2024-25 Non-Revenue Sports Thread

[FearlessF]

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[ELA]

I really liked pool play in the B12 tournament, and so did Augie.  For Texas, the conference tourney was typically irrelevant, and working your way through a large double or even single elimination tournament could burn a lot of arms, before NCAA tourney which is the one that is actually important.

The single-elimination top-4-seeds-double-bye tourney that the SEC is using, is also a decent compromise between potentially helping the teams at the bottom, without risking too much harm to the teams at the top, so I'm okay with it too.

I like the idea of pool play too.  But then make run differential the tiebreaker.

Nice of Miami to come out and get run ruled by the last place team to get championship week started.  Being done before noon on Day 1

[ELA]

I like the idea of pool play too.  But then make run differential the tiebreaker.

Nice of Miami to come out and get run ruled by the last place team to get championship week started.  Being done before noon on Day 1

To put it another way, Pool A is Oregon, Nebraska, MSU.

Whoever wins the Nebraska-MSU game tonight is playing a de facto QF game against Oregon, while the loser is playing a meaningless game against Oregon.  Let's say Nebraska wins.  If they then beat Oregon, they advance at 2-0.  If Oregon wins, they advance, because they either beat MSU and go 2-0, or lose to MSU and win the 1-1 tiebreaker automatically.  So all they did was create a 12 team single elimination tourney, where teams have to play an extra pointless game

[ELA]

Michigan with 3 in the 8th to tie it up, after not getting an out from their starter

[ELA]

To put it another way, Pool A is Oregon, Nebraska, MSU.

Whoever wins the Nebraska-MSU game tonight is playing a de facto QF game against Oregon, while the loser is playing a meaningless game against Oregon.  Let's say Nebraska wins.  If they then beat Oregon, they advance at 2-0.  If Oregon wins, they advance, because they either beat MSU and go 2-0, or lose to MSU and win the 1-1 tiebreaker automatically.  So all they did was create a 12 team single elimination tourney, where teams have to play an extra pointless game

3 of the 4 games today are irrelevant.

Michigan vs. UCLA - UCLA advances at either 2-0 or 1-1
USC vs. Penn State
MSU vs. Oregon - No matter who wins, whoever wins Oregon-Nebraska tomorrow advances
Iowa vs. Indiana - Iowa advances at either 2-0 or 1-1

Hard to imagine nobody realized how dumb formatting it like this was.  Just make it 12 team single elimination

[FearlessF]

[utee94]

Does anyone actually find those "win probability graphs" to be useful?  All they do is reflect the score at any given moment.  I'm capable of doing that myself without the stupid graph.

[ELA]

[img width=500 height=317.988]https://i.imgur.com/yFHcKEd.png[/img]

What was it in the exact moment the game ending pop fly hit the RF glove? 

[FearlessF]

it was a bit of a liner and not a pop up can of corn, but .... it was a routine play and hit the glove in a bad spot
looked like he squeezed the glove before the ball hit the webbing

[Cincydawg]

Does anyone actually find those "win probability graphs" to be useful?  

I find them entertaining on rare occasions where they reach almost 100% and the other teams comes back to win, but other than that ....

But say it shows Team X has an 80% chance to win, as you note, it means it's the 4th quarter and the score is ~27-14.  Duh.  No added useful information.

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[ELA]

Well that's how you take advantage of a break

[MrNubbz]

Does anyone actually find those "win probability graphs" to be useful?  

Quite distressing if you're a Cleveland Sports Fan