# 1! Bingo. By usual standards, what we have is an uninterpretable poll. What does "unexpected" mean anyway? If conventional wisdom is that Kelly will do everything well but not score a lot of points, and she both did everything well and scored a lot, is that more or less surprising that if Heather averaged 4 points a game? And, how does anybody know what people expect anyway? Could it be that this poll exists to establish that baseline, so that after the fact we can see how wrong we were in our responses? That's why quant pros design polls with so many questions they bore you to death. This kind of poll is a lot more fun, because although nobody can really say what the results mean, they're food for thought and talk. Anyway. I think the best term for "EXPECT to SURPRISE" is not oxymoron but paradox. Bertrand Russell had a lot to say about that: When classes are members of themselves. eg surprises that we expect, we are in deep paradox territory.
Who will be the biggest surprise this year?
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# 1! Bingo. By usual standards, what we have is an uninterpretable poll. What does "unexpected" mean anyway? If conventional wisdom is that Kelly will do everything well but not score a lot of points, and she both did everything well and scored a lot, is that more or less surprising that if Heather averaged 4 points a game? And, how does anybody know what people expect anyway? Could it be that this poll exists to establish that baseline, so that after the fact we can see how wrong we were in our responses? That's why quant pros design polls with so many questions they bore you to death. This kind of poll is a lot more fun, because although nobody can really say what the results mean, they're food for thought and talk. Anyway. I think the best term for "EXPECT to SURPRISE" is not oxymoron but paradox. Bertrand Russell had a lot to say about that: When classes are members of themselves. eg surprises that we expect, we are in deep paradox territory.
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The thread certainly interests me as do most of the opinions expressed thoughout these Boneyard threads. There are times, though, when I have few if any opinions about a subject; This being one of them. In this case, I was responding to Kibitzer's response about not having a clue; My thought exactly.then why bother posting in the thread? if it doesn't interest you then feel free to move on. some fans on this board never cease to amaze me...
i mean, we have no idea what future recruits Geno is going to get so why bother discussing that? We have no idea how long Pat will last so why discuss that? we have no idea if they will win the BET, or NCAA's, so why bother discussing that? we have no idea how many games they will lose so why bother discussing that? we have no idea how many minutes per game or points per game the players will score so why bother discussing that? we have no idea if Doty will be 100% so why discuss that?
i could go on and on and on and on but you get the point.
I also agree with your point about some fans never ceasing to amaze you.
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ah. then strike my comment as being meant for you. i was replying to the comment "why bother discussing it".
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