Sounds good, but I think it will be August or September before Roberts gets confirmed and then the year period starts. It will be fun to track and I think we will have a good indication fairly quickly.
Yup, that'll be fun. How 'bout I bookmark this thread and after every ten rulings I'll post the alignment summary for each case and the affinity statistics for justices Roberts, Scalia, and Thomas. That way everything will also be aboveboard and we can quickly resolve any dispute about classification for a given ruling. In the past couple terms the Court has heard 80 cases so I'm sure it'll be about that many this next term (unless something very dramatic happens).
We probably won't get much sense of how it's going until we get to about 30 rulings though. The earliest decisions of a term will lean heavily toward unanimous and per curiam rulings. Oh, and we should formally agree to exclude any case where any one of the three justices doesn't take part.
I'll be sure to ping our bookie along the way! ;^)