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12-14-2012, 03:52 PM #1Senior Member
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Nate Silver weighs in
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12-14-2012, 03:55 PM #2Senior Member
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You beat me to it. Nate Silver does "Money Ball" with the proposed new basketball league. He made the most sense of the whole business. This is a winning formula.
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12-14-2012, 04:17 PM #3Senior Member
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Based off those numbers the new conference would compare VERY favorably to the other major conferences. Now I don't know what goes into calculating that number and if its really a good judgement, but based off of that if they went to a 10 team league with Butler, Xavier and Creighton we would be at 81.59 which puts us just behind the B12 and ahead of the SEC and P12...
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12-14-2012, 05:44 PM #4Senior Member
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Nate Silver does numbers better than any cruncher in the country
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12-14-2012, 05:50 PM #5Senior Member
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Actually, you would have to say Jeff Sagarin would bo it the best. After all, Silver USES Sagarin's numbers for his story. I would also have liked to see him put the numbers of possible additions in with the c7 to see how it stacks up.
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12-14-2012, 06:24 PM #6Senior Member
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This was a quick and dry way to look at things, but it backs up my hypothesis that this new league should annually fall in the 3-6 range in conference rankings. Also, I think Johnnies and PC should start outperforming their previous rankings thanks to the recruiting efforts of Lavin and Cooley. This league is a perfect chance for Marquette to still play excellent competition, but also realistically compete for conference titles every year (and the corresponding top seeds that come with that).
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