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"So That Happened...": The Regular Season In Basketball
With the Big Ten Tournament now looming and a bid in the NIT (yes, the NIT) rather dependent on at least a decent showing in Chicago, I thought we might reflect on some of the statistical high and lows...
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Round And Longevity: Another Look At NFL Career Length
ROUNDS AND LONGEVITY: ANOTHER LOOK AT NFL CAREER LENGTHIn the twelve year span from 1995-2007, about 2,600 players that heard their names called in the NFL Draft have seen the field on Sunday somewhere...
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A Potential Model Of NFL Draft Behavior
A POTENTIAL MODEL OF NFL DRAFT BEHAVIORAs the next installment on an admittedly slow-moving series of diaries on the NFL Draft, I’ve decided to do the behavioral component of this study next. I have...
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Conference Scorecard At The One-Quarter Mark
Last year, I did (mostly) weekly stats reviews of the conference, but creating a dozen or so PNG files, uploading them to Photobucket then posting all of them in some order that made sense in the diary...
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Big Ten Scorecard At The Halfway Point
BIG TEN SCORECARD AT THE HALFWAY POINT Now that nearly everyone has half of their schedule behind them, this is a good time to go back and take a look at the updated scorecards for some summary...
View ArticleGiving MGoThanks 2015
GIVING MGOTHANKSAfter seeing a couple Thanksgiving messages on the board this morning, I was a bit hesitant to post my own, but I did want to point out some of the things that we as a community of...
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Random Musings About NCAA Tournament Seeding
FREQUENCY OF SEEDS AND PERFORMANCEIt occurred to me that it might be interesting to do a high-level survey of the seeding of both the Final Four as well as the tournament champions and then look at...
View ArticleOT Diary: Looking Back On My "Episode"
LOOKING BACK ON MY “EPISODE”This is not a sports-related diary per se, but I am posting this because it was a sports blog that helped me get through what might be termed my first official “health...
View ArticleMETA: "Songs From Bolivia", Volume 1
I've sat here pondering this particular OT season for sometime now and struggling to come up with an occasional feature that isn't too hard for me to find time to do, and then seeing the last couple...
View ArticleRegarding The Forthcoming Near Total Cessation Of Certain Threads: Your Guide
So you are aware, the OT Season officially comes to an end at midnight on the 27th of August, or one week before the first game as per tradition. There will be some cleanup of a preliminary nature...
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The State Of Our Open Threads: After Colorado
MOD EDIT - Moving to diaries. Good idea. - LSAWell, let it never be said about this place that we don't handle adversity creatively because that's something that I would expect from MGoBlog. The first...
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The State Of Our Open Threads: A Little History With A Hint Of Statistics
In the latest installment of “The State Of Our Open Threads”, someone had asked for some historical perspective on some of the data, and I decided that it would be a good idea to go back through the...
View ArticleThe State Of Our Open Threads: After Penn State
MOD EDIT - Moving to diaries - LSAWell, one of my biggest fears after this game was that we really wouldn't have too much to discuss given how well the game went, but as it turns out, there are a few...
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The State Of Our Open Threads: After Wisconsin
We saw a little glimmer of how the blog handles its adversity during the first half of the Colorado game when things did not go all that well, needless to say, but yesterday in a game against a...
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The State Of Our Open Threads: After Rutgers
Last night's game proved to be one of those times where the MGoBlog open thread for the game became something of a repository for the swearing that occurs when you are enjoying yourself and the pain...
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The State Of Our Open Threads: After Illinois
Although yesterday was a relatively breezy day - sometimes literally, if you spent any of yesterday outside - we do have some things to run through in the aftermath of the game thread from just about...
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The State Of Our Open Threads: After Michigan State
Well, we managed to get over the MSU hump this year and now sit rather pretty, if you will, at 8-0 and definitely in control of our own destiny in the Big Ten East at this point in the season.We didn't...
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The State Of Our Open Threads: After Maryland
One of the great things about continuing this feature through the Harbaugh years is that it can be somewhat repurposed to indicate just how much fun we're having, and nowhere is that more evident than...
View ArticleThe State Of Our Open Threads: After Iowa
NOTE: I will add charts later perhaps - having trouble with my Photobucket account, probably because it is far too unwieldly at this point. Well, the one thing that we were hoping not to dissect and...
View ArticleThe State Of Our Open Threads: After Indiana
The tenor of this game in terms of how we felt about it can be summed up in the following factoid - there was all of one "awesome" used in the game thread last night, and it was used in a manner which...
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