john gall is off the farm and up with the big club. ricky ricardo is on the dl with a sore arm but its obviously not sore from pitching too hard. skip dont call me jared schumaker is in the lineup tonight. scott rolen is doubtful for the series. all these updates per bernie miklasz. tonights lineup eck miles albert edmonds spiezio rodriguez molina skip marquis im ...
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the washington post is updating a winprobability graph in real time as part of its coverage of nationals games. no summary of how much each player affected the game however. hat tip to the nats blog whos also tracking something similar to wpa for every nationals game. studes has a new version of his wpa spreadsheet available for download. the input sections are all the same but the backend ha...
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a couple weeks ago i never could have known that my haphazard march madness picks might actually get me somewhere. in one tournament discussion i entered using these same picks i stand a shot of winning if ucla takes the championship this despite the fact that all my other final four picks washed out. im definitely rooting for hometown underdog george mason in the final four whod have thoug...
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ive just joined dans march madness pool. since i dont generally follow sports i tended to follow the close your eyes and pick at random method of refining my picks for the college basketball tournament. in my world arizona connecticut duke and ucla make it to the final four and ucla goes all the way. there really isnt much rhyme or reason except for an expectation that the better seeds generally w...
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