Recruiting Football Talk VIII

[Enki_Amenra]

 

[Jackcrevol]

Huge among the younger demos. Always has been. Baseball is being kept alive by the older crowd and basketball is the future for many...soccer's growth may be higher, but volume isn't there yet.

The big thing NBA has going for it is the international following, on top of the below US stats.

At least among my group threads, they're just as obsessed with the NBA as the NFL. They can rattle off all sorts of stats on players. Meanwhile, my brain is filled with UT stats I try to keep up though, because I do enjoy watching the pro sports when I find time...just don't have much of that these days.

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[jave36]

Huge among the younger demos. Always has been. Baseball is being kept alive by the older crowd and basketball is the future for many...soccer's growth may be higher, but volume isn't there yet.

The big thing NBA has going for it is the international following, on top of the below US stats.

At least among my group threads, they're just as obsessed with the NBA as the NFL. They can rattle off all sorts of stats on players. Meanwhile, my brain is filled with UT stats I try to keep up though, because I do enjoy watching the pro sports when I find time...just don't have much of that these days.

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Kids like to say their favorite sport is soccer because it's cool to be counter culture... I don't see the TV ratings supporting what they're saying though. Basketball you do see it in the ratings though.

 

[utvolmaniac]

Notre Dame doesn't want to be in a conference for financial reasons. In a conference they just get a cut of the revenue, being an independent they get the big chunk of the pie...

Agreed, but it’s time they join the rest of the NCAA football world.

 

[Adam Sandler]

No stats are irrelevant for anybody who watched the games. All box scores do is give people who didn't watch information about what happened in the game. However, that information will always be limited compared to actually watching the game.

Do you really need to see the box score from the Bills vs Chiefs playoff game last Sunday to know who did or didn't play well? When you watch a game closely you will have superior information to any stat sheet.

I judge players exclusively on the eye test. I watch them play and determine how good they are based on what I see in game rather than basing my opinion on what I see after the game on the stat sheet.

That’s conveniently subjective

 

[Devo182]

Kids like to say their favorite sport is soccer because it's cool to be counter culture... I don't see the TV ratings supporting what they're saying though. Basketball you do see it in the ratings though.

Soccer is harder to pin down, because Premier and La Liga eat up a lot of the viewership. Soccer fans will say they love soccer.

Not sure if the MLS would really be that high, if in a vaccuum, similar to the NFL/NBA. But the sport is certainly growing in fandom here irregardless.

 

[peaygolf]

To end the 'back and forth' over LeBron?

LeBron’s son > MJ’s son

Jordan's son charged with possession of cocaine

 

[PlanetVolunteer]

Notre Dame doesn't want to be in a conference for financial reasons. In a conference they just get a cut of the revenue, being an independent they get the big chunk of the pie...

The NBC pie

Dirty catholics

Sorry catholics...

 

[Weezer]

@Freak id like to propose a contest.

Winner of the NBA bball argument gets an all expense paid trip to Papermill Awful Waffle with @Weezer .

Does that mean my meal is paid for as well?

 

[Weezer]

LeBron’s son > MJ’s son

Jordan's son charged with possession of cocaine

Depends. If MJ's son was snorting coke off a stripper's ass, I'm giving him the nod.

 

[TN-POSSUM]

I was watching that episode live and I bout fell out of the bed.


*Parts of her story are true, there was a shop in Pigeon Forge that had a live black bear and you could buy it a coke. That was one of my papaw's favorite things to do. We'd go to Pigeon Forge/ Silver Dollar City quiet a bit when I was young and we'd always stop at that shop on the way back home. The bear would get a Coca-Cola and I'd get a Nehi Peach.

 

[peaygolf]

Depends. If MJ's son was snorting coke off a stripper's ass, I'm giving him the nod.

I mean, that’s obvious.

 

[tnvols72]

 

[Girth Brooks]

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

LOL. Here are all the advanced stats cited by basketball-reference.com (the leading basketball stats website):

AD - 27.4 PER, 61.0 TS%, 6.7 offensive win shares, 4.4 defensive win shares, 11.1 win shares, .250 win shares per 48 mins, 5.4 offensive box score plus/minus, 2.6 defensive box score plus/minus, 8.0 box score plus/minus, 5.4 Value Over Replacement

Anthony Davis Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Draft Status and more | Basketball-Reference.com

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LeBron - 25.5 PER, 57.7 TS%, 6.2 offensive win shares, 3.6 defensive win shares, 9.8 win shares, .204 win shares per 48 mins, 6.6 offensive box score plus/minus, 1.8 defensive box score plus/minus, 8.4 box score plus/minus, 6.1 Value Over Replacement

https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/j/jamesle01.html

Anthony Davis leads him in every advanced stat outside of offensive box score plus/minus, box score plus/minus, and value over replacement. That's a 7 to 3 advantage for AD. And the only reason LeBron leads in those 3 categories is because of his higher usage rate. For the season LeBron had a usage rate of 31.5% to AD's 29.3%. It's why in the advanced stats that take usage rate like PER, AD leads LeBron.

No matter how you slice it Anthony Davis was the best player on the 2019-20 Lakers according to the TOTALITY of the advanced stats.

Cool. How many MVPs does AD have? How many teams has he out on his back and carried to championships?

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

I feel really stupid asking this. But when talking about DL, I hear people talk about a 3, 4 or 5 technique. What does that mean?

 

[Jackcrevol]

I feel really stupid asking this. But when talking about DL, I hear people talk about a 3, 4 or 5 technique. What does that mean?

how many fingers they use to hold themselves up.

 

[VolGee4]

Vandy’s left field porch is shorter than LNS.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

2 Trees Osuna,

 

[tnvols72]

 

[Enki_Amenra]

I feel really stupid asking this. But when talking about DL, I hear people talk about a 3, 4 or 5 technique. What does that mean?

 

[Jackcrevol]

2 Trees Osuna,

 

[Enki_Amenra]

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Is that a nazi salute?

 

[jave36]

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[TN-POSSUM]

Soon