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18 weeks 1 day ago Good luck...

...work hard and be diligent in both training and your studies. Fair winds to you, fair sir!!

18 weeks 1 day ago Interesting!!

Next week could you do an analysis that tells us the key variables that indicate likely success in the areas you highlight?



Am sure mblogatlarge can suggest appropriate hypotheses to test.



C'mon mgobloggers. Consider it a crowdsourcing Mathlete challenge!



FG

21 weeks 2 days ago Sounds..

...like Michigans sugar bowl victory last year. How sweet that victory was...how terrible was the game....and nobody (UM fans included) said we deserved to win.



But we are all happy we did..right?



22 weeks 5 days ago Interesting (i think) but What

...does this lovely data actually tell us lay people? Perhaps adding a section "Conclusions" would be valuable for us non-maths geeks who are interested in math-geek findings.



Also, was the objective to roll around in the data to try and find correlations or were there specific hypotheses you wanted to test?

25 weeks 3 days ago Ace

Great post. Thanks goes to you, Brian

and Heiko (and whoever else I forgot) for all the work this year. Without you the year would have been ...well you know.



Thanks guys.

25 weeks 3 days ago Guys

Get over it. I'm upset at some of the play calling in the second half, but we didn't deserve to win given the last 30 mins of football. It sucks but life continues. And their D played great coverage in the second half.



Move on. It sucks though.



26 weeks 2 days ago RR was a great offensive coach.

That's really all we can say.  Our defense was terrible, which is put at the feet of RR since he hired the DCs.

I agree with the opinion that burning DG's RS in 2010 was a complete waste for the handful of snaps he got to play.  It is also my opinion our spread offense under RR was better than our offense with Denard under Borges.  Though we have only recently got  an insight to Borges potential with an accurate and mobile pocket passer in as QB...and that is exciting. 

I understand RR didn't get the support he needed to be successful at UM, but he didn't put in the pre-requisites that success requires either.  I'm happy we have Brady, and I'm happy RR is at Arizona.  I wish him the best. 

 

 

 

28 weeks 15 hours ago Great comment

Respectful and insightful.



Brian - can we sign this guy up for a regular view?

29 weeks 5 days ago That would be some block...

Here's how it'd have to go down...

Run  full pace with guy 2-3 steps behind you.  Stop.  Complete 360.  Set.  Get solid block before guy pushes you into your own man for a friendly-tackle.

 

Its a nice theory.  I just don't know how its going to happen in practice. 

Try it yourself with a buddy and see if you can get any meaningful contact on the chasing corner.

 

30 weeks 5 days ago I hate to be that guy...

...however some of the sums are wrong in the secondary chart (e.g. Floyd / T. Gordon). 

That aside, great write up again Brian.

 

 

32 weeks 1 day ago Thanks Heiko

Awesome work as usual...reading these is just so much more enjoyable than watching them for some reason.

32 weeks 4 days ago Let me get this in first...

...nothing good happens after midnight.

33 weeks 4 days ago So let me get this...

Two losses in you burn a Michigan sweater? C'mon man!!

34 weeks 3 days ago So what

Do we read about nd's win over Sparty last week given this performance?

34 weeks 5 days ago All due respect....

...but can you all fuck off. This is a football blog fergodsakes!!



Great writing again - loved the the humor! I'll take those against animal cruelty for a thousand.

35 weeks 5 days ago Baby seals make me laugh

" A baby seal walks into a club and says, "Ow." "

This made me laugh out loud in tbe buritto shop.  Got funny stares. 

Then I read: .."A couple reps with a five-pound dumbbell in the middle of a workout that has so far consisted of bench-pressing an elephant and 60 minutes of CrossFit."...and almost fell on the floor.

Great writing Heiko and great weekly. 

 

 

 

42 weeks 3 days ago The question...

...remains, how did they get the cat to squat over the bottle?

47 weeks 5 days ago Morris

Forward looking and unique to date.

47 weeks 5 days ago Is there...

...a better way to do it then?

1 year 4 weeks ago was it just me...

Was it just me or did the O line make Devin look worse than he was - seemed like he had no time.  Certainly took some wrong options (held it instead of giving to fitz) and some of his dump offs were bad,  but it seemed he had some big bad, free running D in his face on many of those early snaps.  

Bellomy looked much more comfortable out there than Devin.

1 year 4 weeks ago was it just me...

Was it just me or did the O line make Devin look worse than he was - seemed like he had no time.  Certainly took some wrong options (held it instead of giving to fitz) and some of his dump offs were bad,  but it seemed he had some big bad, free running D in his face on many of those early snaps.  

Bellomy looked much more comfortable out there than Devin.

1 year 20 weeks ago Yep

Nuff said

1 year 33 weeks ago Love these...

...they're great.  Fundamentally don't know how you come up with these concepts, being an analytic myself.  However, they look fantastic and I look forward to them each week.

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