Old guy Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 @Bonwich. You like Pomerol, I fully agree. La Coseillante is defintely more than I can afford, at least in a regular basis. Never had Certain LeMay. Fine taste for wines, you may try buying 5th Cru Pomerol (good years) and cellaring them for about 8 to 10 years. Aging makes up for lack of pedigree many times. I am serious about models, a lot of money is being thrown out the window nowadays on the basis of model based predictions that are, let's say less than reliable to justify such expenses. If you get your graduate slave (hate this word, please refer to him as a serf or something less offensive) that is capable of doing such a feat, please make sure to hire him to others wanting similar feats of calculation, you may be able to afford Petrus after all. As far as predicting outcomes in basketball, there is no way to do it accurately and reproducibly. Of course you can place your bets with Pomerol or whoever you like Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonwich Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 If you get your graduate slave (hate this word, please refer to him as a serf or something less offensive) that is capable of doing such a feat, please make sure to hire him to others wanting similar feats of calculation, you may be able to afford Petrus after all. Okey. Grad school. It's not just a job -- it's an indenture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeniceMenace Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 Not the official A10 poll that picked SLU 12th, but A10 coaches anonymously.....sounds like a prediction of 5th through 9th place: http://www.cityofbasketballlove.com/news_article/show/567043-cobl-college-preview-atlantic-10-coaches-thoughts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JettFlight5 Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 I would think that that quote from that article about the 4 man killing them came from Mike Lonergan at GW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowboy Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 Not the official A10 poll that picked SLU 12th, but A10 coaches anonymously.....sounds like a prediction of 5th through 9th place: http://www.cityofbasketballlove.com/news_article/show/567043-cobl-college-preview-atlantic-10-coaches-thoughts -thanks for posting as I think a good look at the conference Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianstl Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 I just saw that while Hanner/Winn (SI) overall ratings are not out yet, the A-10 conference preview is out. They do not like the Billikens and they are projected last in the A-10. http://www.si.com/college-basketball/2015/10/16/atlantic-10-preview-rhode-island-davidson-vcu Overall rankings are out now. We come in at 214. I tend to think we can be better than that. It hurts that Winn wrote that we are a sad bunch. http://www.si.com/college-basketball/2015/11/03/every-team-college-basketball-ranked-north-carolina-kentucky-kansas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianstl Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 Highest ranked A10 team is Rhode Island at 44. Davidson 48, VCU 49, Dayton 51, and Richmond 58. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kshoe Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 ESPN has their rankings of every D1 team: http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/insider/story/_/id/14097655/ranking-every-division-college-basketball-team-1-351 It's an insiders article but they have us as 129. Davidson (42), Rhode Island (46) and Dayton (56), Richmond (58) and VCU (66) are other notables. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old guy Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 It appears that we did make it inside the 144 mark after all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwyjibo Posted November 13, 2015 Author Share Posted November 13, 2015 Team Rankings predicted SLU at 152 and generally has high regard for the A-10 (as SLU was predicted 6-12, 12th in A-10). https://www.teamrankings.com/ncaa-basketball/ranking/predictive-by-other/ The ESPN rankings are interesting as they rate SLU highly precisely because they have a lot of people coming back (method built around returning minutes and manually adjusting to good recruiting classes). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheChosenOne Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 ESPN has their rankings of every D1 team: http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/insider/story/_/id/14097655/ranking-every-division-college-basketball-team-1-351 It's an insiders article but they have us as 129. Davidson (42), Rhode Island (46) and Dayton (56), Richmond (58) and VCU (66) are other notables. Where did we rank among the A-10? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kshoe Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Where did we rank among the A-10? Looks like 10th. What's become obvious to me with all these various lists is that 1) there probably isn't that much difference between 125 and 200 and 2) nobody really knows how good/bad we are going to be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old guy Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Agree no one knows how good or bad we are going to be this season, but we are going to find out real soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbofive Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Agree no one knows how good or bad we are going to be this season, but we are going to find out real soon. I'm looking forward to seeing which teams score the most points in all the games next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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