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- Opponent output vs Michigan in 2009 averaged 124% of the rest of their schedule with a standard deviation of 0.3. I used that as the baseline for 2010.
- I assumed opponent points scored is normally distributed with a mean of 1.24 * N-PPG and stdev of 0.3 * N-PPG
- I assumed Michigan's scoring is also normally distributed with a mean of 36.3 and stdev of 0.3 * 36.3 = 10.8 (just used the 2009 opponent data for simplicity)
- The difference between Michigan and opponent's score is normal with mean 36.3 - 1.24*N-PPG and stdev of sqrt(10.8^2 + 0.3*1.24*N-PPG^2)
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| 6 days 18 hours ago | Which achievement? |
Very excited about the defense. If the offense holds up it could be a "Legacy of Rome" year. Or maybe even "S.P.Q.R"... |
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| 17 weeks 6 days ago | Second gen Wolverine |
My daughter got her admit today and is currently prancing around the house in a Michigan shirt and a pair of M pajama bottoms singing the fight song.
It's been her first choice since that cute pre-med student led her campus tour. Apparently the tour my brother and I had provided a month earlier was less...engaging...
Doesn't hurt that she went to her first Michigan game when she was 18 months old.
My favorite line from her essay was 'I belong at Michigan. 20% of the change in my piggy bank is Canadian.'
GO BLUE
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| 18 weeks 5 days ago | Nope |
Got him beat |
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| 18 weeks 5 days ago | Indeed |
Seconded |
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| 24 weeks 1 day ago | Aaaaiiiieeee |
Rail Baron is the avalanche effect at Monopoly speed. You can spend 3 hours losing that game with no hope of turning it around.
Try Acquire. |
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| 1 year 31 weeks ago | Wish I hadn't seen it |
I was there. It sucked. |
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| 1 year 52 weeks ago | I discovered mgoblog before there were computers |
Wow, that was so long ago I don't even begin to remember. I know it was before Brian "left" his CS job...when he announced he was doing MGoBlog full time I sent him $500. Best investment ever. It's been a daily hit ever since. |
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| 2 years 39 weeks ago | Good times, good times |
'87-'01 There was some overlap of mallow and TP...one game I left at halftime and returned with a grocery bag full of marshmallows and TP. The guys at the gate just laughed and waved me in.
I'll second the comment about throwing TP being an art. A dozen arcing rolls of TP/30-ft streamers were glorious. I understand why we had to quit and regret it at the same time.
Occasionally we'd create TP balls and toss them around like the blow-up beachballs. The big dorm TP rolls were ideal for that. |
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| 4 years 45 weeks ago | +1 for the ref |
I love the ref in the Woodson interception. He totally looks like he's thinking OH MY GOD THAT WAS THE MOST AMAZING THING I'VE EVER SEEN! |
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| 6 years 18 weeks ago | Not sure |
I'm extrapolating from a couple comments where he's talked about damaging the long-term brand. Very possible I'm over-extrapolating. |
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| 6 years 18 weeks ago | Actually I think you can |
I'd square the circle by arguing that the "legacy" uniforms and traditions arguments are a question of long-term vs. short-term thinking. If they differentiate college football from other sports consumption opportunities then jettisoning them damages the long-term value of the Michigan 'brand' for short term jersey sales. So there is a perfectly rational free-market argument for actions that cost money in the short term (even if only by way of opportunity cost). That's my read on Brian's argument. To the extent that Michigan gains differential brand equity by a greater attention to tradition in all its forms, it could make sense to do so even when other rivals are exercising those opportunities. So long as there is a way for Michigan to extract value from that tradition (e.g., higher-value TV rights, broader fan base, 110k attendance in down years). |
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| 7 years 5 weeks ago | Dong forest >> dong punch |
If instituting a dong forest means we have to do less auto-dong-punching then I'm in favor. |
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| 7 years 26 weeks ago | Truly epic |
This almost makes up for it being a bye week. 10,000 mgopoints to you, sir! |
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| 7 years 28 weeks ago | Was THE KNOWLEDGE pre or post |
Was THE KNOWLEDGE pre or post haloscan? |
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| 7 years 29 weeks ago | An exercise by the reader |
Very interesting... So with the addition of the 2009 data, I wondered if there was a way to refine the games-won estimate. My read is that mistersuits subtracted Michigan's N-PPG of 36.3 from opponent's N-PPG (or 125% of N-PPG). Just for fun, I wondered what including some randomness might yield... Some notes and assumptions: This yields probabilities of Michigan victory of:
For the 4 games in the bag, this seems pessimistic (based on this, there's only a 16% chance of willing all four games). What happens if we dial all of our opponents back to 100% of expected PPG output?
9.2 expected wins on the season, 6 in conference play. The probability of winning the first four games is now up to 40%. An attack of the Angry-BLANK-Hating-God on the offense (or just tougher Big Ten defenses) that cuts Michigan PPG production by 25% would yield 3.1-4.4 conference wins. The first couple Big Ten games will obviously tell us a lot, but this year has been a lot more fun than the last three... |
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| 7 years 33 weeks ago | Agree to disagree |
I felt no emptiness watching the offense that game, just the sort of glee that makes your head explode. That was a game where the defense was giving us 8 yards a play (at least through the better part of the first half). I have no doubt that there are variants on many of the plays we saw Saturday that end in a ball flying downfield. Let's keep some tools in the bag for the rest of the season. |
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| 7 years 33 weeks ago | Well..... |
....that was....new |
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| 7 years 39 weeks ago | How about "The Real Dileo"? |
How about "The Real Dileo"? |
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| 7 years 44 weeks ago | Hawking! |
Alas, it's the downside to having a reader base smarter than that of Steven Hawking's |
