Who is the biggest BY Math geek (tournament style) ELITE 8!!!!!

[August_West]

MODS PLEASE PIN @fleudslipcon

First round results/discussion is here:

Who is the biggest BY Math geek (tournament style) round 1!!!

MODS PLEASE PIN @fleudslipcon We all know all the culprits, the "fans" who get their loins stirred about movement in AdjOffEff metrics but are ho hum about wins. Guys who worship at the feet of Bart Torvik and Ken Pomeroy instead of J.C. By and large they are good posters and good guys...

the-boneyard.com

OK we have our Elite 8! It was a barn burner of of a 1st round. we had the obligatory 12 beating 5 scenario play out in overtime after a tie score when HobokenHusky won a coin flip tiebreaker (actually it was my newborns crinkly panda teether that I flipped, as I didn't have a coin) .

We had a really competitive 14-3 matchup with tzznandrew giving supernerd navery12 all he could handle, but the 3 seed moves on.

The top 2 seeds Auror and BfieldHusky showed why they went into the tourney so highly regarded as both decimated their opponents.

Husky429 moved into E8 after his opponent was ejected.

We have some stellar matchups here! Im looking forward to the poindexter level heavyweight battle betweem Navery12 and HeyAdrien. It's anyones game!

This is edge of your seat stuff.

Here is the updated bracket. Opening up polling for 8 hours so we can get to Final 4 tonight.

This Elite 8 looks to be one for the ages. All great matchups.

Let's do this!

 

[ctchamps]

I’m gaming it so the four seed wins!

 

[August_West]

@Fishy @fleudslipcon @temery

It looks like its happening again, what words did I use to trip this filter this time?

 

[JustbrewitMan]

@ToolzieFan - classic 8-9 dogfight, someone had to win, and the reward is facing the #1 seed.

I have a ton of work to get done today before departing for AC for a long weekend of debauchery.

Didn't plan to also have to take on @auror as the #1 seed in a BY battle. Oof.

 

[August_West]

We’ve got a couple tight ones at bottom of the bracket!

 

[storrsroars]

I don't understand how Bfield made this field. His posts are so innocuous I had to search his post history for anything remarkably analytic. Didn't find it. I would've taken Hans' counting syllables as more math-induced.

 

[ctchamps]

That 4 seed better win! The 1, 2 and 3 seeds better lose. This is not about sentiment! This is about mojo! We've been screwed over by the NCAA tournament panel not the math nerds.

We need to make a statement against that treatment. Let's go UConn! Take the 4th seed slight as motivation.

 

[CTBasketball]

I don't understand how Bfield made this field. His posts are so innocuous I had to search his post history for anything remarkably analytic. Didn't find it. I would've taken Hans' counting syllables as more math-induced.

Hang me for adding him then!

 

[FfldCntyFan]

 

[auror]

I don't understand how Bfield made this field. His posts are so innocuous I had to search his post history for anything remarkably analytic. Didn't find it. I would've taken Hans' counting syllables as more math-induced.

He's been posting metrics update posts.

 

[husky429]

I don't think I deserve to be on this. I don't really even understand analytics any farther than TS%. I'm not very smart guys.

 

[Hey Adrien!]

Fun fact: I was a math major in college but failed my last math class (skipping nearly every class didn't help).

Graduated with an English degree and then went to grad school for secondary English education, but haven't taught English in ten years. I'm now the math curriculum leader at my school.

I guess you can say, everything has gone "full circle"

 

[August_West]

I don't think I deserve to be on this. I don't really even understand analytics any farther than TS%. I'm not very smart guys.

whelp you are in a Dogfight with Bfield.

 

[ctchamps]

I don't think I deserve to be on this. I don't really even understand analytics any farther than TS%. I'm not very smart guys.

And we're smart enough to know this.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

I don't think I deserve to be on this. I don't really even understand analytics any farther than TS%. I'm not very smart guys.

This is the Boneyard. Qualifications aren't neccessary, in fact they are often frowned upon.

 

[HuskyHawk]

I don't think I deserve to be on this. I don't really even understand analytics any farther than TS%. I'm not very smart guys.

This is the challenge in the bracket, neither you nor @BFieldHusky are really analytic math nerds. Neither should win but you're facing each other.

 

[Tyler2Rings]

I don't think I deserve to be on this. I don't really even understand analytics any farther than TS%. I'm not very smart guys.

To borrow from an earlier post...

We're an angry mob and we can do what we want!!

 

[nomar]

 

[tzznandrew]

View attachment 85143

 

[Tyler2Rings]

Fun fact: I was a math major in college but failed my last math class (skipping nearly every class didn't help).

Graduated with an English degree and then went to grad school for secondary English education, but haven't taught English in ten years. I'm now the math curriculum leader at my school.

I guess you can say, everything has gone "full circle"

View attachment 85143

A real math nerd would use radians instead of degrees.

Glad things have come 2π for you!

 

[FfldCntyFan]

I don't want to out anyone but rumor has it that one of the elite eight recently bought this:

 

[JustbrewitMan]

Just like Ed Cooley, my record in “not close games” is is fairly abysmal

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

@August_West
8½ hours have passed since the 8-hour poll opened. Are things on task?

 

[ctchamps]

@August_West
8½ hours have passed since the 8-hour poll opened. Are things on task?

Poll closed 31 minutes ago.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Poll closed 31 minutes ago.

Ok, good. Thanks for easing me up.