It would be absolutely absurd to start the Super Bowl with anything that resembled a surprise. Why do it? What could one gain? The Super Bowl is simply a normal football game, and the teams who have already made it this far know how to win football games; they must have won a bunch in […]
Entries from January 2009
Start the Super Bowl With a Super…Surprise?
January 31st, 2009 · 1 Comment
Tags: Football
MLB Front Office Manager
January 30th, 2009 · No Comments
Published by 2K Sports, and with A’s General Manager Billy Beane as the posterboy, MLB Front Office Manager is a Major League Baseball-licensed sports management game that has just been released. It is available on Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, and PlayStations 3.
There are some excellent and informative reviews and summaries already available, which I provide […]
Tags: Baseball
The ‘proportional point-spread hypothesis’
January 23rd, 2009 · 1 Comment
My below response is regarding an HSAC discussion about ‘proportional point-spread hypothesis’ that we’ve been having over the past several days. It started as follows: Professor Morris, inspired by the early lead Arizona took over the Eagles, posed a question regarding point spreads, specifically, how the points should be thought of as being distributed over […]
Tags: Basketball · Carl Morris · Football