Archive for the ‘Statistics’ Category

Hold Your Horses, Curt

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

The thing I love about Curt Schilling is that he has lived up to his name better than any ballplayer since Home Run Baker. (I can't speak to how well Zip Zabel lived up to his name). If there's one thing Curt can do even better than pitching, it's shilling. And ...

McD’s Week Five Picks

Friday, September 26th, 2008

[caption id="attachment_2903" align="alignright" width="134" caption=""I leave more personality in tightly-coiled piles on the lawn." - Brian Griffin, who could have been talking about USC's running game on Thursday."][/caption] Happy Saturday, everyone. It's 9am ET and for some insane reason I'm up and ready to go. Damnit. The games don't kick off ...

Worst Game Ever: Fun With Statistics From UCLA/Oregon

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

You probably missed the (9) Oregon/UCLA game on Saturday. It was regionalized by ABC, so essentially only the West Coast saw the entire game. West Virginia/UConn and Georgia/Georgia Tech were the other games and ABC affiliates jumped from the WVU blowout to the Georgia game instead of the Oregon/UCLA game. ...

Fun With Meaningless Stats

Sunday, December 10th, 2006

Here at Rumors and Rants, we aren't huge fans of ESPN The Magazine. It takes the great premise of Sports Illustrated and tries to be a little too "street" and "hip," plus it also has columns by the much-maligned Sports Guy, Bill Simmons, which already appear online. So there's basically ...