Top 25 talk

[ElRetornodelEspencio]

I'm not sure the best place to post this, but I've made a (strong, I think) attempt at re-creating the Ken Pomeroy ratings for D3 MBB.

http://detroitjockcity.com/division-iii-mens-basketball-efficiency-ratings/

Data set includes D3 vs. D3 only. Numbers will be a bit wonky here in the early going. Hopefully they'll stabilize nicely as we go.

Yeah there are a few that don't really seem to make sense (like CMS, which on the numbers I can't figure out how they're #1; a few points of adjusted D doesn't seem like it should counterweight those schedule numbers), but on balance this looks pretty solid, actually.

[ElRetornodelEspencio]

**** it. you're the god of d3 basketball. I don't give a **** anymore.

I'm about to throw my computer out into the rain and just not give a **** about anything anymore.

Anyone up for biking from Barrow to the Tierra del Fuego? I'm pretty much done with the world.

Spence, seriously, why do you keep coming around here if you can't handle conversation and non-Marietta-favorable opinions? Maybe this isn't the place for you.

Would you rather I have gone blow by blow through another post that I thought was so full of holes it could have been Suicide Squad? What would have been gained from that? This was at least a discussion related to the topic of the board. You now have made it a personal one, even though I'm sure I will blamed for that when this reply is posted. **** it. I don't care.

It's not about non-Marietta-favorable anything. You sound like Jim Dixon after I tell him he's full of it for saying that the 06 title was a fluke. It's about being right vs. being wrong. But that doesn't matter here if you're of a certain rank or stature, and I recognized that and disengaged, only for you to bring it back up. **** that, I stopped giving a **** about rank about 3 years before I left the military.

Seems to me the only ones that get prickly about assessments and analyses that are critical of people on the approved list from people that aren't ... well that was a labored sentence but it's the era of Trump, sentences don't even have to end anymore. Believe me.

Just remember, you all are the ones that came to me asking for content and I told you I couldn't do it because of the lack of respect YOU gave me in situations just like this, and then people threw their respective hissy fits about it and now I'm a huge villain. Which is whatever. I don't care. I don't care about much anymore. Trump is president and I'm in a program possessed by the devil and winter is coming and I've decided not to care abotu any of it. And so I really don't care about what someone on the internet thinks of me.

So I hope it made you feel good to pile on after the whistle and jack the thread entirely. Because **** it, at this point I just want to watch the world burn.

[sac]

Bump

How They Fared (So Far)

No result yet from Nebraska Wesleyan @ Wartburg.

Top 25

Rank	Pts	Team	W-L	Results
#1	611	Amherst	4-0	def. Westfield State, 84-59; 12/03 vs. Emerson
#2	599	Babson	7-0	def. Bates, 87-53; 12/02 vs. Salem State; 12/03 vs. TBA
#3	558	Tufts	5-0	def. #23 WPI, 75-71; 12/02 at Brandeis; 12/03 vs. TBA
#4	542	Marietta	5-0	12/03 at #20 Baldwin Wallace
#5	510	Whitman	3-0	12/02 at Willamette
#6	485	North Central (Ill.)	3-1	LOST to UW-Platteville, 40-57; 12/03 vs. #16 Illinois Wesleyan
#7	447	Christopher Newport	4-1	def. Southern Virginia, 80-55; 12/03 vs. Frostburg State
#8	437	Whitworth	3-0	12/03 at Willamette
#9	380	Washington U.	4-0	12/02 vs. UC Santa Cruz; 12/03 vs. Rhodes/UW-Eau Claire
#10	378	St. Norbert	1-1	12/02 at Knox; 12/03 at Illinois College
#11	357	Wooster	3-2	LOST to Denison, 59-65; 12/03 at Wabash
#12	297	St. Thomas	4-1	def. Macalester, 72-61; 12/03 at Augsburg
#13	292	Keene State	5-0	def. Trinity (Conn.), 76-66; 12/03 at Mass-Dartmouth
#14	207	Benedictine	3-2	def. Rockford, 96-65; 12/03 at Marian
#15	201	Hope	4-1	won at T#41 John Carroll, 85-72; 12/03 vs. #32 UW-La Crosse
#16	184	Illinois Wesleyan	5-0	12/03 at #6 North Central (Ill.)
#17	175	Augustana	5-1	def. #50 UW-Oshkosh, 77-64; 12/03 vs. #39 North Park
#18	168	Rochester	6-0	12/02 vs. #51 St. John Fisher; 12/03 at Nazareth
#19	162	Salisbury	5-0	def. St. Mary's (Md.), 64-59; 12/03 at Penn State-Harrisburg
#20	116	Baldwin Wallace	4-0	12/03 vs. #4 Marietta
#21	112	UW-Eau Claire	4-0	12/02 vs. Rhodes; 12/03 vs. UC-Santa Cruz or Washington Univeristy
#22	96	Mount St. Joseph	5-1	LOST at Anderson, 74-78; 12/03 vs. Rose-Hulman
#23	84	WPI	4-1	LOST at #3 Tufts, 71-75; 12/01 at Framingham State; 12/03 at Fitchburg State
#24	81	Endicott	3-1	def. Curry, 85-56; 12/03 at Eastern Nazarene
#25	70	Susquehanna	4-1	12/03 at Goucher

Others receiving votes

Rank	Pts	Team	W-L	Results
T#26	50	Ohio Wesleyan	2-3	LOST to (n) Otterbein, 66-72; 12/03 at DePauw
T#26	50	Swarthmore	4-0	12/01 at Muhlenberg; 12/03 vs. Dickinson
T#26	50	UW-Whitewater	4-0	def. Beloit, 82-70
#29	44	Scranton	5-1	LOST at Hobart, 58-70; 12/03 vs. Juniata
#30	31	Franklin and Marshall	3-1	12/01 vs. Ursinus; 12/03 at Haverford
#31	29	New Jersey City	5-1	def. William Paterson, 71-69; 12/03 vs. Rutgers-Camden
#32	28	UW-La Crosse	4-1	LOST at Luther, 58-67; 12/02 at Albion; 12/03 at #15 Hope
T#33	25	Capital	4-2	LOST to Wittenberg, 60-63; 12/03 at Ohio Northern
T#33	25	East Texas Baptist	4-0	12/01 at Hardin-Simmons; 12/03 at McMurry
T#33	25	Emory	4-2	won at Birmingham-Southern, 75-70; 12/03 at Piedmont
T#33	25	Virginia Wesleyan	4-2	won at North Carolina Wesleyan, 83-63; 12/04 at Roanoke
#37	24	Skidmore	4-1	def. TCNJ, 96-84; 12/03 vs. Houghton
#38	21	Lycoming	5-1	won at Messiah, 87-75; 12/03 vs. Hood
#39	20	North Park	4-0	def. Alma, 88-81; 12/03 at #17 Augustana
#40	19	Wartburg	6-0	def. Nebraska Wesleyan, 92-76; 12/03 at Simpson
T#41	18	John Carroll	1-3	LOST to #15 Hope, 72-85; 12/03 at Muskingum
T#41	18	Lynchburg	4-2	LOST to Shenandoah, 71-74
#43	16	UW-River Falls	4-1	def. Viterbo, 72-46; 12/02 vs. La Verne; 12/03 at Redlands
#44	14	Middlebury	5-1	def. RPI, 79-72; def. Johnson State, 99-83
T#45	10	Neumann	5-0	won at Clarks Summit, 107-67; 12/03 at Gwynedd Mercy
T#45	10	Plattsburgh State	3-1	LOST at St. Lawrence, 73-91; 12/02 at Buffalo State; 12/03 at Fredonia
#47	9	Misericordia	4-1	12/02 at Utica
#48	7	Carroll	4-1	IDLE
#49	4	Claremont-Mudd-Scripps	4-0	12/02 vs. San Diego Christian
#50	3	UW-Oshkosh	2-3	LOST at #17 Augustana, 64-77; 12/03 vs. Calvin
#51	1	St. John Fisher	3-1	12/02 vs. #18 Rochester; 12/03 vs. Rochester Tech

[HOPEful]

   

So I hope it made you feel good to pile on after the whistle and jack the thread entirely. Because **** it, at this point I just want to watch the world burn.

[ElRetornodelEspencio]

Looks right. US up in flames. Yep. Just put a little Satan in Minneapolis running a prediction algorithm.

   

So I hope it made you feel good to pile on after the whistle and jack the thread entirely. Because **** it, at this point I just want to watch the world burn.

[Flying Dutch Fan]

It's about being right vs. being wrong.

Last time I checked, both the top 25 poll and the all American awards were the OPINIONs of voters - just because they don't share your opinion or mine does not make it right or wrong.  Come to think of it, these board are all about sharing opinions.

Anyway enjoy your bike ride...

[Pat Coleman]

Just remember, you all are the ones that came to me asking for content and I told you I couldn't do it because of the lack of respect YOU gave me in situations just like this, and then people threw their respective hissy fits about it and now I'm a huge villain. Which is whatever. I don't care. I don't care about much anymore. Trump is president and I'm in a program possessed by the devil and winter is coming and I've decided not to care abotu any of it. And so I really don't care about what someone on the internet thinks of me.

So I hope it made you feel good to pile on after the whistle and jack the thread entirely. Because **** it, at this point I just want to watch the world burn.

I mean, really, you get the respect you earn. (And I didn't come to you for content.)

I made one post, you made however-many, and I'm the one jacking the thread. Got it.

[HOPEful]

So I hope it made you feel good to pile on after the whistle and jack the thread entirely...

You can jack the thread, but I can Jack Sparrow the thread!

[ElRetornodelEspencio]

Just remember, you all are the ones that came to me asking for content and I told you I couldn't do it because of the lack of respect YOU gave me in situations just like this, and then people threw their respective hissy fits about it and now I'm a huge villain. Which is whatever. I don't care. I don't care about much anymore. Trump is president and I'm in a program possessed by the devil and winter is coming and I've decided not to care abotu any of it. And so I really don't care about what someone on the internet thinks of me.

So I hope it made you feel good to pile on after the whistle and jack the thread entirely. Because **** it, at this point I just want to watch the world burn.

I mean, really, you get the respect you earn. (And I didn't come to you for content.)

I made one post, you made however-many, and I'm the one jacking the thread. Got it.

Jim did and he writes for your site, right? Would you like me to specify when I'm using the plural you every time? I would think the fact that someone provides free content for sometihng you generate ad revenue off of would earn a certain amount of gratitude and respect. Guess you read a different book. Whatever, don't care, no ragrets.

My posts were on the topic of the thread. Yours was to personaly call out someone and uninvite them from posting in so many words. If you can't tell the difference between those two, I don't know how to help you. At least dave couched his undercurrent of contempt with something that could actually be said to be relevant. You just come out of the locker room with your theme music blaring running with a metal folding chair over your head.

YOu do get the "most ironic signature quote" award, however.

[ElRetornodelEspencio]

So I hope it made you feel good to pile on after the whistle and jack the thread entirely...

You can jack the thread, but I can Jack Sparrow the thread!

Piracy is an interesting idea. Only problem is most pirates wound up dead after a not too long period of piracy. One exception was Benjamin Bridgeman, who did his plundering, then re-integrated into British society without them knowing who he was. Hero.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Every

Also not sure what the hell has happened to the quote attribution here.

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[Pat Coleman]

I get that you think you're being picked on, but if you go look back and see that I only addressed you once you started dropping asterisk-replaced words, maybe you'll see how I ended up here. Or if you don't, at least others will.

The topic of the conversation became you, at that point, and I addressed the topic. We don't have a super high bar that you have to surpass to post here, so I hope you can remain over that bar.

[HOPEful]

We don't have a super high bar that you have to surpass to post here...

This made me giggle 

[ElRetornodelEspencio]

I get that you think you're being picked on, but if you go look back and see that I only addressed you once you started dropping asterisk-replaced words, maybe you'll see how I ended up here. Or if you don't, at least others will.

The topic of the conversation became you, at that point, and I addressed the topic. We don't have a super high bar that you have to surpass to post here, so I hope you can remain over that bar.

It became me when you made it me, and not before.

And I very much doubt you do hope what you claim to. I neither care what you hope, or whether I run afoul of a bar that is subject to movement at any time.

[ziggy]

Just remember, you all are the ones that came to me asking for content and I told you I couldn't do it because of the lack of respect YOU gave me in situations just like this, and then people threw their respective hissy fits about it and now I'm a huge villain. Which is whatever. I don't care. I don't care about much anymore. Trump is president and I'm in a program possessed by the devil and winter is coming and I've decided not to care abotu any of it. And so I really don't care about what someone on the internet thinks of me.

So I hope it made you feel good to pile on after the whistle and jack the thread entirely. Because **** it, at this point I just want to watch the world burn.

I mean, really, you get the respect you earn. (And I didn't come to you for content.)

I made one post, you made however-many, and I'm the one jacking the thread. Got it.

Jim did and he writes for your site, right? Would you like me to specify when I'm using the plural you every time? I would think the fact that someone provides free content for sometihng you generate ad revenue off of would earn a certain amount of gratitude and respect. Guess you read a different book. Whatever, don't care, no ragrets.

My posts were on the topic of the thread. Yours was to personaly call out someone and uninvite them from posting in so many words. If you can't tell the difference between those two, I don't know how to help you. At least dave couched his undercurrent of contempt with something that could actually be said to be relevant. You just come out of the locker room with your theme music blaring running with a metal folding chair over your head.

YOu do get the "most ironic signature quote" award, however.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Yikes Spencer, seems a little extreme man... Marietta is still 5-0... seems like that's something to care about.

And I don't know why I feel compelled touch on the subject, but, it's my understanding that there is a 54 mile stretch between Panama and Columbia where roads cease to exist (rainforest)... do you plan on just taking a boat from Panama to Columbia?

The forest there is so dense the last person who attempted to cross it took three month - and this was just a couple years ago, with the benefit of all-terrain vehicles.  You need a ferry at some point.