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38-13, bro
~ Will Furrer, 11/24/1990
really interesting analyses - the catch efficiency is just awesome. Trying to get trends and make decisions is just as interesting but the degree of difficulty goes up tremendously.
in terms of trends, there is a practical limit to getting trends out of data that isn't always reflected in the math. Sure, you can fit a line/trend through anything but the questions is how meaningful is it? On one of the last airplane programs I worked, an over-zealous engineer fit some curves through a smattering of flight test data that showed the air vehicle was 20 - 43% down on range. After the dust settled, everyone's conclusion was that the data was too scattered and a change of fuel flow meters tightened up the data and real trends were able to be calculated.
If I look at the charts above, I see an awful lot of scatter. For example, if you throw out the outlier of the second chart ("sir tripsalot" at 39% and 13yds/catch) 2012 could be trended to show BETTER % out of reach numbers as yds/catch increases.
Also, 2 data points for 2012 at 19 yds/catch with an average of 22% out of reach is a good indicator that the trend does not accurately reflect what is going on.
Anyway, just my $0.02 that it would be really difficult to conclude much in terms of trends from this data.
For the truly bored or energetic, take the charts above and make the marker size a function of the number of catches for each receiver - that "bubble chart" would give us an indication of the relative importance of each data point. Also, the trends through the data could take into account the number of catches/data points to graph the line ....
I'm pretty sure Emelogu won't be first off the bench since he'll likely be starting. What coach would name a freshman a captain just for him to be the 6th man? JJ expects Ben to contribute a lot this year. I think the starting lineup will be Emelogu, Rankin, Barksdale, Eddie, Raines with Adam Smith being the first off the bench.
Wee first game I get to go to since the Dook game last year, so excited to get a real tailgate in this time around!
University Bookstore had both #14 & #15 for sale when I was in town for the UNC Game
I was bummed out as well when I went on my only trip to Blacksburg this season for the UNC game. All they were selling at the game were #3 which I already have and #99. I wanted and Facyson or Fuller jersey so bad, funny thing is while walking to the stadium I was still undecided on #31 or #11. I still kinda am but was and still am leaning toward Facyson.
Turkey leg for being Homozygous funk positive.
I'm not sure if I should be jealous, or in awe. I'll just be both.
Trevion Armstrong
Dorsett looks like he may have a serious knee injury. Judging by the reactions on the sidelines he may be done for the year.
I think Duke Johnson has already had one concussion this year - he can't take too many more of those.
whose twitter is that?
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# | Bitter blog - A couple of "Battle at Bristol" stories, with contract details Downside to that is that Tennessee can sell the same pitch but get a leg up on us because they're from the ESSSSSSSSSSS EEEEEEEEEEEEEE CEEEEEEEEEEE... Big whup. Down with the $EC Giant! Whatever conference faces them in the national championship better win. And I hope it's the ACC.
The canes won..this is still possible ;)
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# | Bitter blog - A couple of "Battle at Bristol" stories, with contract details I remember the big east days of the 90s where everyone in the media said Virginia Tech doesn't play anyone. Now they say we can't win the big games..soon they will say in coming years..when will someone else take the Hokies off their national throne.
When was that pro-UVA article written? It's obviously from a fan of theirs..
That's awesome... Good to see some smarts from the coaches on the recruiting trail.
This should be everywhere for recruiting purposes.
i love that they're already using the battle at bristol to recruit
Please LOLUVA, play this song when you run out on the field or for first downs or when the Jefferson wings dance.
I just really hope that the team suprises the heck outta me. After the past two years and without erick green and the other loses we have suffered I hope we can be as good as last year. I love college basketball and I hope we can really suprise everyone and pull a few upsets this year at cassell.
In that order?
This comment from the Hampton Roads page...
The Hokies are destined to be a top 20 team, no better, more likely worse. Until Beamer is replaced with someone better, that's the way it will be. The problem is that there aren't many better coaches who will want to come to Blacksburg.
of course not taking Duke and BC for granted.....22 days till Miami
LETS GO.
Since I can't give a turkey leg for a post, here's one for a reply!
One thing that's pretty easy to see in the 2nd chart - the slope of the line tells you how quickly our effectiveness falls off with deeper shots down the field. A steeper line means you rapidly lose effectiveness as your QB tries to reach deeper receivers. It means more deep incompletions. So 2012 really sucked in that regard - as we go downfield, we miss more passes. 2011 was great in that regard - we stay effective as we lengthen the field and are able to go deep more reliably. 2013 is closer to 2012. So, hooray!
I just saw all those videos. That was a lot of work.
Thank you