Burton had a good game and I think that's great! Let's all hope she continues to shine from the bench and the Sun sign her to a longer contract after the season ends. I think they got a steal in picking her up after Dallas waved her. She's young and will only get better.

Clark's season is over. I suspect next year's Fever will be a much more dangerous team given all the experience she, Boston, Hull, and Mitchell gained working together.

Need more basketball! Hopefully, the Cats stuff starts picking up soon.

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Offense 24
Defense 21

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I am taking the under on points this week

ubercat said:

Karma’s a Birch

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More like a Douglas Fir (from Washington)

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Sheffielder said:

This third-game/redshirting thing is a concern to me, as well.

I will say for myself...college football is the only sport I really follow. I've never particularly cared for the NFL, largely because of how quickly the players move from one team to another (same for MLB, etc.) And well...here we are.

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I thought the policy used to be “5 years to play 4”, and that six-year seniors were only medical redshirts.

Considering the sport is nominally tied to education, it would be good if we reverted to that rule.

Quitting three games in really sucks. I hope he’s enjoying his single UNLV online class.

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CappyNU said:

Per Massey, which used to be one of the BCS rating systems, we have a 12.8% chance of losing out - roughly 1 in 8 shot; a 32.4% chance of winning 1 more game; a 32.8% chance at winning 2 more games (0.004% chance that the 2 games are OSU and Michigan); a 15.2% chance of winning 3 games, and a 6.8% chance of winning 4 or more games and going bowling.

Obviously this doesn't take into account win probabilities changing after each additional game.

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Sounds about right.

Here's the thread with my number-crunching program:
https://northwestern.forums.rivals.com/threads/crunching-the-numbers.32309/

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FeralFelidae said:

Use whatever percentages you like. If Sagarin gives a 5% chance of winning a game, then you add 0.05 to the total. If it's 26%, then you add 0.26.

You tell us. Give us the percentage chance you assign for each game and then add them up. That (plus the 2 we already won) is your expected win total.

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Per Massey, which used to be one of the BCS rating systems, we have a 12.8% chance of losing out - roughly 1 in 8 shot; a 32.4% chance of winning 1 more game; a 32.8% chance at winning 2 more games (0.004% chance that the 2 games are OSU and Michigan); a 15.2% chance of winning 3 games, and a 6.8% chance of winning 4 or more games and going bowling.

Obviously this doesn't take into account win probabilities changing after each additional game.

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Purple Pile Driver said:

The 1950’s were a great decade.

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Read The Upswing by Robert Putnam. We are riding the I-We-I curve down to its depths. NIL is a great example of what is down there.