Recent content by upnorthkid

the deal isn't done and all of these guys are just throwing shit out there (Pagnotta, Friedman, etc) with guesses based on the cap. They also guessed McDavid would sign at 16mil (signed at 12.5). we'll see when the deal is done. This may be his best shot at winning, so does he slice the deal...

The only reason it got one was because he carded the other guy (which was also not a card based on him letting seemingly everything go all night). They haven’t been carding flops all tournament despite claiming they care about the integrity of the game

World Cup officials seemingly cannot get out of their own way making controversy game after game

Arkansas was 42nd in FPI and went 2-10. Florida was 37th at 4-8 (both Sagarin and FPI). There are some teams they do a bad job of ranking because of the SOS inflating them.

It’s a very interesting discussion given how different the league is (looking at salaries and caps at that time versus now and that there was no luxury tax penalties, etc) as well as the caliber of athlete, massive change in playing style (MJ was not a 3 point shooter, how would he fare in...

Just pulling from their site. I’m sure it’s now including 247 and on3. Regardless, it’s as close to worthless as can be. Wisconsin was rated ahead of us in FPI last year at 4-8 as was Rutgers at 5-7 and Nebraska. Mind you they all lost to Minnesota but hey great metric espn.

Mn in that spot makes perfect sense if you look at how the sausage is made Per ESPN: In the preseason, these components are made up entirely of data from previous seasons, such as returning starters, past performance, recruiting rankings and coaching tenure (more on the preseason component...

This is a wildly cherry picked stat that means next to nothing Of note because it’s fun McCarthy inside the opponents 19 15/34 9 TDs, no picks, 4 rush tds Burrow 21/41 14 TDs 2 picks, no rush TDs Rodgers 44/74 14 TDs 1 pick, 1 rush TD If I throw a great ball into double coverage at the 1...

hopefully the rest of the quarters are better. was like Morocco didn't even try today. just a brutal attempt at strategy from their coach trying to play a style they had no business playing

Maybe younger LeBron. Just haven’t seen that level of engagement/arrogance like you’d expect from some of the old guys. Add to it that Wemby gets an aggressively friendly whistle and I don’t really see it

Problem is Wemby can shoot over both bam and bron. Add at this age bron isn’t going to commit to thumping with Wemby to displace him and I just don’t see him being much of an asset there anymore. His defensive stats have really been the part that’s fallen off massively (though some of that is...

The CHL and USHL are not going to be able to keep guys in both directions as it sits now. The leagues realize that and benefits are going to have to improve on both sides of the border as they compete for players. That’s what I was meaning. College will still be the end target for many guys...

Would be wild how poorly balanced they’d be on the floor with those three out there at the same time

Kind of depends on how all these leagues want to play it. Benefits are going to change in Jr and you’re seeing tons of us kids go up north (who will still be counted as US). Most of the also ran schools were already mostly Canadian

If this is restricted to D1 men, Means roughly half of college hockey players are Canadian.