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I hate useless snark.
Oh, too funny.
I can relate. I've built entire posts and theories here and at the JCB around ATS numbers that probably arent really related to one another, but are interesting nevertheless.
I mean, I've already put the Northwestern game in the loss column--at least ATS--for Michigan, who cares about, you know, the real stuff like actual matchups.
Brian has been visited by the spirit of Henri, the Otter of Ennui:
Let's hope that the records the last few years have no correlation to MGoBlog. In my defense, I sat in the same seat and ate the same types of food during the ND game as I did for Ohio State. That one wasn't my fault this year
This sometimes is how discussing law with people feels like as well.
A happy and safe Memorial Day to all. Let's hope SI gifts us early next week and a Hello Post follows.
idgi
//ESPN Random Column Generator #include <time.h>
If (Columnist_name == "Feldman") {
int superlat;
string team;
srand ( time(NULL) );
foreach (team = NCAAfootballTeams[]) {
superlat = rand % 5;
cout<< team<<" looked really ";
if (superlat == 0) { cout<<"great"; }
if (superlat == 1) { cout<<"awful"; }
if (superlat == 2) { cout<<"slow"; }
if (superlat == 3) { cout<<"ape-like"; }
if (superlat == 4) { cout<<"filled with ennui"; }
cout<<" during practice this week."<<\n;
}
}
Thanks for the debug, it's been a while...
//ESPN Random Column Generator #include <time.h>
If (Columnist_name == "Feldman") {
int superlat;
string team;
srand ( time(NULL) );
foreach (team = NCAAfootballTeams[]) {
superlat = rand % 5;
cout<< team<<" looked really ";
if (superlat == 0) { cout<<"great"; }
if (superlat == 1) { cout<<"awful"; }
if (superlat == 2) { cout<<"slow"; }
if (superlat == 3) { cout<<"ape-like"; }
if (superlat == 4) { cout<<"filled with ennui"; }
cout<<" during practice this week."\n;
}
}
please tell me you complied this.
Unfortunately, I haven't memorized the GCC error messages yet.
It took a little more work to get it to actually compile though:
//ESPN Random Column Generator #include <ctime> #include <cstdlib> #include <algorithm> #include <iostream> #include <string> #include <vector> using namespace std; void printSuperlative(const string team); int main() { string Columnist_name = "Feldman"; const char* teams[] = {"Michigan", "Michigan State", "Ohio State", "Purdue", "Indiana", "Illinois", "Northwestern", "Wisconsin", "Minnesota", "Iowa", "Penn State", "Nebraska"}; vector<string> NCAAFootballTeams(teams, teams + 12); if(Columnist_name == "Feldman") { srand ( time(NULL) ); for_each (NCAAFootballTeams.begin(), NCAAFootballTeams.end(), printSuperlative); } return 0; } void printSuperlative(const string team) { int superlat = rand() % 5; cout << team << " looked really "; switch(superlat) { case 0: cout << "great"; break; case 1: cout << "awful"; break; case 2: cout << "slow"; break; case 3: cout << "ape-like"; break; default: cout << "filled with ennui"; } cout << " during practice this week." << endl; }
I just realized how closely these opinions mirror the mass-media opinion on each of these teams. (or at least how they did before bowl-season)
That's kind of creepy.
Taking it to a whole other level. Think you could add an escape clause in there for Ohio State, where it automatically mentions another former player who sold/bought something that they shouldn't have, followed by a mention of how it looks like Tressel's time is up and the Gee is still standing behind him 100%?
osu's output should always mention that all news and results, until further notice, are pending NCAA sanctions--we don't want to get all worked up about a season that will be struck from the record books in three years.
We need mgointellisense on the board so that these things don't happen. Think of the children.
I got a null pointer exception for MSU.
This might be what they're getting at (I'm both slow & unfamiliar with XKCD), but this is how I feel about the complete lack of attention to sample size in sports.
The latest example: the idea that LeBron James just learned how to close games during this playoff run. The Heat lost a few more close games than they won during the regular season and have won a few more close games than they've lost in the playoffs, so the obvious conclusion is that LeBron is an entirely different player.
I was also a big fan of the hysteria after the Red Sox started 0-6. That was the first 3.7% of their schedule or, in NFL terms, roughly the equivalent of the first half of the opening game.
That's why i love looking at the margin of error in things like batting averages during april, or carreer numbers against a certain pitcher.
"going by the book" based on 7 at bats. Drives me crazy!!!
here is the alt-text which, sadly, doesn't lend too much more fun to this particular sports-oriented website. Unless there are a bunch of geeks here, and that can't possibly be the true about the mgocommunity.
Also, all financial analysis. And, more directly, D&D.
The alt text for the pervious comic on wikipedia was great, and I found to be true more often then not.
Judging from the Code (and debug) posted above, I think we can safely assume we are in no way geeks.
but it does feel good to know i'm not the only one out there that thinks in code sometimes! :D
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