Posted on 03/27/2010 6:40:42 PM PDT by FLAMING DEATH
Total votes 53,738
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GO MOUNTAINEERS!!!
KENTUCKY JUST LOST!!! ALL OF ZERO’S PICKS FAILED
The Mountaineers were the first tough team the Wildcats played in the tourney. ...and it showed.
First Final Four since the days of Mr. Clutch (Jerry West)!
It’s over. Kentucky LOSES
Heck, the WVU coach is a Russian!
Zero is O’FER!!! I love it.
Next year I’m picking the winning teams out of a hat.
Just pick the ones the maoist doesn’t pick.
Who will win this Elite 8 Matchup? (WVU vs. Kentucky)
Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm......West Virginia!
Duke, the only #1 seed left, plays Baylor tomorrow for a Final Four berth.
DUmmie FUnnies 03-26-10 (Marx Madness: Baracket Busted! The Curse of the Obamabino!)
“The 6 Most Statistically Full of Sh** Professions”
#1 Sportswriting
“Millions of guys would love to spend all their time watching games and telling people their opinions about sports, but only a select few get to do it, and they do so partly by keeping up a pretense of having some exclusive knowledge about the game that no one else does.
Any sports fan will tell you what a retarded hack their hometown sports columnist is, but sports fans (as with fans of anything, really) tend to be just as lazy as they are abusive, and not many compile a statistical analysis of their hated sportswriters’ inaccuracies.
One man, however, did take it upon himself to prove the point empirically in 1971 with an actual study on sportswriters’ ability to predict college and NFL games. Their success rate was .476, which you may notice is slightly worse than a coin. The coin’s writing ability is arguably superior.
Before writing sports journalists off as complete morons, keep in mind that even Accuscore, a service that charges for its sports predictions based on complex computer algorithms that crunch stats and predict trends, only claims about 53 to 54 percent accuracy, which is still enough to make its customers money.
So, sports prediction is something that almost nobody can get a handle on, but still... worse than a coin toss?
If you want to tie your brain in a knot, think about this: If those guys sitting behind the desk at ESPN are performing worse than chance when they try to make an “expert” judgment about who’s going to win the game, that means they could improve their accuracy by always betting on the team they actually think is going to lose. Hell, some of them are wrong so often they could beat the Accuscore service simply by going against their instincts every time.
Eh, they’d still probably f*** it up somehow.”
http://www.cracked.com/article_18380_the-6-most-statistically-full-shit-professions_p2.html
Kentucky played terribly tonight, that was painful to watch.
Hatfields defeat McCoys.
Mountaineer Nation!
In Houston, I like Baylor’s chances.
Baylor is a surprise to me. Didn't know a lot about them, but Alabama beat them back in November, and Alabama is very much in rebuilding mode. But there have been many surprises this year.
Bob Huggins is the man.
This team is TOUGH.
Something we sorely lacked in the past.
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