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How do you just walk up on someone like that? I'm at a loss.
I agree 98% feels too high...unfortunately there are few computer ratings out there that (a) do preseason ratings and (b) convert them to a projected score difference. So at the moment this is using three computers that are not particularly high on Purdue, even by Purdue standards. They project a score difference in the high 20's.
That said, Purdue finished last season poorly and most preseason ratings start with how you finished the previous year. So I suspect that 98% will come down once a game or two has been played and will likely end up somewhere in the 80's or low 90's. Conversely, although I think Georgia Tech will be very good this year, I see our odds of winning that coming up as a couple of games get played.
The good news is that those graphs will be getting updated as the season progresses and included in each game's statistical preview!
Absolutely agree with your opinion on Ford becoming a 1000 yd receiver. Brewer has a lot of good qualities, but he does not have enough confidence in his deep ball. He won;t even try it much this year.
Truly heartbreaking.
caught in a landslide, no escape from reality
Just awful...my thoughts to the family and friends of these individuals!
Don't forget this is a board full of football junkies with a lot of engineers. We take numbers seriously.
Otherwise, i'm in full agreement with this statement.
Several of the computer ranking systems out there (Massey and whatifsports are a couple that I'm familiar with) include odds of winning as part of their rankings. I suspect this is where that data might come from.
I almost always joke around on here, but that is an excellent post, krak_t. Young people should take the message to heart.
A-friggin-men!
I think we're reading a little too much certainty into the individual game probabilities...let's all agree it's greater than 0% and most likely less than 1%. If we beat Ohio State let's shift it to between 96 and 98%.
That was 50 Cent...
I'd be curious to see the last chart (odds of X wins) for LOLUVA. How hard would it be to throw that one together for comparison sake? Queue histogram uvafail jokes...
That is exactly what I do. Are we related? Does that make me The Sixth Fuller?!??!?
Funny story. I have a co-worker in Bristol/Blountville, TN who is obsessed with everything batman. More obsessed than I am with VT stuff (that's saying something). I think you are him every time I see you post. Unfortunately he is a UT fan, so you guys are evil twins probably.
This is where it gets creepy weird, his name is Matt.
I'll be there. It will be the first home game I have ever attended!
...this season.
"...highly recommend for anybody to spend some real time here to get an outside perspective of the USA."
I sent my kids overseas for their first year in college, so I couldn't agree more. They spent time in London, Florence, and Valencia, but interestingly they both chose to spend the majority of their time in Panama. But the cool part about being a student in Europe, was going on super cheap excursions on the weekends...Octoberfest, skydiving and skiing in the Alps, hopping across the Med to Morrocco...and on and on. I loved doing that for them, as I felt it would give them a certain "je ne sais quoi" (ha, why not go there?)
as they made their way through life. I hope to get back, but it doesn't look to be in the cards right now. You brought back great memories, though. Enjoy!
That's if you assume there is zero chance of losing to Furman. If you account for the slim possibility that we lose that one (not that such a thing is concievable. I'ts never happened before, right?), the likelihood goes down slightly. I used 98% chance that we beat the Vermin and got 0.400% chance of 12-0.
I disagree with this:
It's all about figuring out what... what you like to do.
Work is for paying your way through life for the things you choose to do outside of work. It is what responsible people do to provide for themselves and their family.
The concept that work has to be "fun" is allowing the perfect to be the enemy of the good. Work has never historically been "fun" for the vast number of people in history. But it beats the hell out of starving, or living off charity of others.
A very small minority of people are lucky enough to find a means of income that is "fun". This isn't normal, and shouldn't be the expectation.
Yes, absolutely, make it a goal. But don't let that goal limit your options for self-sufficiency. And don't let falling short of that goal make you a miserable person.
Making a living, regardless of your happiness with the manner of your work, is rewarding in itself.
I work in telecom designing, deploying and maintaining networks ranging from major international companies who possess billions of dollars of infrastructure, down to enterprise level clients with no concept of the difference between bits of data & 2 tin cans connected by string.
9 days out of 10 I don't like my job. It's stressful. The opportunities to cause major outages affecting millions of people with attendant gargantuan fines from the FCC is an ever-present hazard requiring an attention to detail that I don't generally apply to any other part of my life.
I'd much rather be a farmer or a restaurateur, but the odds of those endeavors paying the bills are vanishingly small.
But at the end of the day, I turn off the work computer, play with my baby girl, do a little gardening, drink a little bourbon, and toast the good fortune I have enjoyed to be able to simply stay employed and provide for my loved ones through all the upheaval in the job market the past 10 years.
I can see a couple trick plays with both Big Ben and Vick on the field at the same time.
I am an architect, working mainly on healthcare and K-12 educational facilities. Blacksburg, VA.
Thanks! Yea I just began my second year. I already kinda hate it here. The administration operates on principles that are outdated and the curriculum is miserable. I'm not sure that I would've done anything differently when choosing grad schools other than maybe applying to more schools than I did. I tried to stay close to home (girlfriend/family) but I think I would've been fine somewhere farther from home.
Civilian: Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney- Augusta County, VA
Military: Judge Advocate VA Army National Guard
Lucrative and interesting is the holy grail for everyone. I love my job but I know my future is never going to be lucrative. Enough to make it reasonably well, but the trade-off for enjoying it is worth it to me.