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Around SBN: Bracketology 2012: Duke Finally Steps Up To The No. 1 Line

It's not NOT guilty, but it's not guilty: according to KVAL.com, the starting running back for the Ducks will take a plea deal of some sort on Friday. You know why the Ducks are experiencing such astonishingly bad luck? RANDOM PROBABILITY. It has jackshit to do with a coach not caring, or not knowing his players, or with a "thug" (read: black) element on the team, or with the particular house the zodiac is resting in this month. Programs sometimes just randomly spit up years like this, since any given sample of elite D-1 talent is comprised of a pretty homogenous slice of people across programs. <----boring statistical-ish killjoy.

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STOP INJECTING THE DEBATE WITH LOGIC

"I'm colonel cool! And I'm the captain on this rocket to the stars!"

by psuphiman80 on Mar 10, 2010 5:26 PM EST reply actions  

As A) a probabilist and B) a Duck, I approve this message. Thank you sir.

The U of O: Where idle hands are the devil's workshop.

by ProbablyMonty on Mar 10, 2010 5:27 PM EST reply actions  

In the interest of full disclosure, charges are on the way for a certain thick-ankled QB of ours.

The U of O: Where idle hands are the devil's workshop.

by ProbablyMonty on Mar 10, 2010 5:53 PM EST up reply actions  

Yup. (I study probability theory. For a living. Because I make bad choices.)

The U of O: Where idle hands are the devil's workshop.

by ProbablyMonty on Mar 10, 2010 9:59 PM EST up reply actions  

feels great to be back.

oh come on….what else can people fill in the next 4-5 months of college football purgatory with other than the “Program (du jour) is lacking discipline” articles? you don’t think the sports columnists in Eugene are in hog heaven right now?

by rjsplow on Mar 10, 2010 5:51 PM EST reply actions  

Y'all stuck at stats

Actually the answer is “maybe it’s probability, maybe it’s not.” The sample is too low for any statistical significance test to determine conclusively whether it’s variance rearing its head or some novel aspect. Without the ability to make that determination, an assertion that it’s variance or that it’s some other factor doesn’t have support.

If you’re gonna go after BCS guy for logical fallacies then I gotta your brunt assertion as begging the question here. Sorry.

Paid for by the committee to keep Boise State out of the national championship.

by Old South on Mar 10, 2010 5:56 PM EST reply actions  

Vagueness is truthy and sucky

It leads to the bottle and possibly one’s drug(s) of choice. And I must applaud anything leading to that recourse.

by Old South on Mar 10, 2010 6:28 PM EST up reply actions  

Polite golf clap

muted and in the background, of course.

"I like the taste of danger most of all." - Jonatha Brooke

by MtnEer_in_SC on Mar 10, 2010 6:39 PM EST up reply actions  

God damn it.

You know it is a bad sign when half of the damn articles on EDSBS are covering your program for all of the wrong reasons!

This off-season officially sucks for FIVE reasons and counting...

by CaDuck on Mar 11, 2010 12:08 AM EST reply actions  

Solution = moar Pflugrad pics?

Tracy Porter's gonna score! TRACY PORTER'S GONNA SCORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (HT Takimoto)

by AllSaintsDay on Mar 11, 2010 12:21 AM EST up reply actions  

I would say Amanda pics are the path to world peace

but the most vestal of virgins would surely cause holy wars far and wide if her visage were leaked outside these hallowed blogs.

by HoodRiverDuck on Mar 11, 2010 3:17 PM EST up reply actions  

The downside for Masoli:

Unlikely to be released prior to trial, since it’s doubtful anyone makes a XXXXL ankle bracelet.

everything is history, eventually.

by benzduck on Mar 11, 2010 1:56 AM EST reply actions   2 recs

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