Hey! It might be his first game of the season! Coaches often like to give a player a start against their former team, especially if there's any bad blood there. But no, probably Fatai doesn't see the eighteen. It was more a joke than anything else, suggesting the absolute nadir of our season. Go Quakes!! We Suck!! - Mark
Well, if we had waited until late summer like most other boards, we'd miss out on the convo for the year since we'll be eliminated by then!
Meanwhile in Vancouver: https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/...rotest-fans-walkout-game-whitecaps-vancouver/
I don't watch , follow or like hockey nor do I care about it. The Quakes after that "playoff" loss, were eliminated though and have only won 5 games ever since.
Seven games in and we are four points out of a playoff spot. The current trend is 43 pts for a playoff spot, our last win gives us 6 pts and a 0.86 ppg. We need to avg 1.37 ppg to get to 43. Next Three Games - Three Wins - outstanding - Two wins - moving up - One win, two ties - moving up - One win, one tie - keeping up - Three ties - losing ground http://www.sportsclubstats.com/USA/SanJose.html Chance of Playoffs: 14.6% Wooden Spoon: 9.8%
Eight games in, 26 more to go, and we are three points out of a playoff spot. The current trend is 43 pts for a playoff spot, our last draw gives us 7 pts and a 0.88 ppg. We need to avg 1.38 ppg to get to 43. Next Three Games: - Three Wins - outstanding - Two wins - moving up - One win, two ties - moving up - One win, one tie - keeping up - Three ties - losing ground http://www.sportsclubstats.com/USA/SanJose.html Chance of Playoffs: 14.8% (+0.2%) Wooden Spoon: 10.1% (+0.3%)
So, after earning a draw in Seattle last night, the Quakes Wooden Spoon odds increased? Sounds like your typical data-driven "science" to me.
One thing the Mueller Report revealed was that mainstream news stories that were claimed to be "fake news" at the time proved to be mostly accurate.
Quite the contrary. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/19/us/politics/steele-dossier-mueller-report.html
Probabilities about who is going to win sporting events weeks or months from now is utter pseudo-science. Complete bullshit. Have I made myself clear?
Last season we have a 0.62 ppg average for the Wooden Spoon, our nearest competitor was a 0.82. Currently we are at 0.86 so just barely missing the Wooden spoon based on 2018 results. Right now we are really benefiting from some lousy performing teams in our division but will they continue to be bad. Only Colorado is a repeat performer from 2018.
I am talking about stories written by the NYT and WAPO, etc. The didn't write the Steele Dossier. As the article you linked states, "Mr. Steele has made clear to associates that he always considered the dossier to be raw intelligence — not established facts, but a starting point for further investigation."
The precision of your data is so exact that it must foretell the future. Trump cannot win. The Sharks cannot beat Vegas. Playing well in Seattle (and over four consecutive games) means the Quakes are actually increasing their odds of being the worst team in the league six months from now. I also hear the world will end in 12 years if we don't act now (which we won't). Science.
I'm happy to discuss this in detail with you over beers, but in deference to the no politics rule, this will be my last post on this sorry subject. You're missing a considerable forest for the trees. The Steele Dossier was an obvious hoax from the outset. There was no news story and should not have been any articles on the subject of Russian Collusion except to say that the Steele Dossier was an obvious hoax, something the Times is only belatedly and less than forthrightly saying now. However, the New York Times and the Washington Post and others in the mainstream media covered the absurd conspiracy theory for two full years on the false premise the investigation had any foundation in fact whatsoever instead of being a political contrivance.