SB Nation User Blog: Elihu

Women's Volleyball - 9:00 Thursday

Elihu — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:58:10 -0000

For those who are curious as to the match times for the two semifinals in the NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship: according to the TV schedule on ESPN's web site, the Minnesota-Texas match is at 7:00 pm & the Hawaii-Penn State match is at 9:00 pm on Thursday on ESPN2.

I decided to add a poll to help me reach the seventy-five word minimum, but that seemed not to have worked.

Poll

I'm planning to ...

record the match & watch it later

9 votes

watch the match live without recording it

60 votes

record the match and watch it live

13 votes

let the team down and ignore the match

5 votes

87 votes | Poll has closed

Audio for Elite Eight match vs. Cal at 4:00

Elihu — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:00:54 -0000

Audio for Elite Eight match vs. Cal at 4:00

Audio link for the match against Cal. If we win this, we're in the Final Four.

Sporting New Today articles - Sean Lee (John Cappelletti in second link)

Elihu — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:21:35 -0000

Sporting New Today articles - Sean Lee (John Cappelletti in second link)

Draft preview - Sean Lee - http://today.sportingnews.com/sportingnewstoday/20091212?#pg5

Cappelletti's Heisman - http://today.sportingnews.com/sportingnewstoday/20091212?#pg7

Alisha Glass - SI Face in the Crowd

Elihu — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:02:18 -0000

If you look in the new Sports Illustrated (11/9/09) at the Faces in the Crowd section, they list Alisha Glass. I couldn't find a link on their website, I saw it in the actual magazine. They mention the 88-match streak.

Interestingly enough, when I did a search for Alisha Glass on their web site, I came across an article from '06 about Alisha, Megan Hodge and Blair Brown being the number 1 recruiting class for '06. This quote caught my eye:

This class definitely has a target on its back, though. Many people believe it should equal the success of the 1996 class, which produced three four-year starters, won one NCAA championship and finished second twice.

Do you think they've done that? Let's see:

one first and two seconds

vs.

two firsts & favored to win a third for the first threepeat ever, called the greatest team ever, most consecutive matches won, most consecutive sets/games won, four returning All-Americans this year.

Here's the whole article: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/dave_krider/06/27/krider.notebook/index.html

Why Pryor deserves the Offensive Player of the Year Award (OPYA)

Elihu — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:48:18 -0000

Imagine Even Royster had a bunch of 20+ yard runs that put us inside the 10, but someone else usually scored. Maybe Clark or Suhey run it in, or Clark throws TD's. Even though Royster wasn't actually scoring, if he had enough long runs that set up scores, he would deserve the OPYA.

Well, if your willing to think outside the box & not be so closed minded about it ... you'd realize, with all his interceptions and fumbles, how many scores Pryor is setting up. Why should it be limited to someone who only generates offensive scores for his own team? I haven't looked at the statistics, but it seems like Pryor is really doing his part to help the other teams get a lot of points. Shouldn't that count?

</sarcasm>

Poll

Pryor deserves ...

to barely win the OPYA for all the points from turnovers

22 votes

to barely be benched

18 votes

to be ignored

71 votes

111 votes | Poll has closed

"Something for Joey" on ESPN Classic tonight

Elihu — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:56:48 -0000

ESPN Classic is showing "Something for Joey" tonight (Sunday) at 8:00 Eastern time. For those of you that haven't seen it and have ESPN Classic, now you can finally see it. Of course, if you have seen it and want to watch it again, you could do that, as well.

I wasn't whether to do this as a fanpost or fanshot, but decided that there really wasn't a link or specific image to post so I went with the fanpost. I really hope that by now I have met the seventy-five word minimum.

Yellow-Out -- Lame Excuse Poll

Elihu — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:49:28 -0000

via assets.sbnation.com

As a public service to Pitt fans, I think we should come up with the best lame excuse for this yellow-out picture. I bet some of you can come up with better excuses than what is listed in this poll. Add yours as comments & if enough people reply to your idea, I will add it to the poll. (I'm assuming I can add items later. If not, we're stuck with what I came up with.)

Poll

The explanation for this picture is:

Pitt scientists are working on a top secret invisibility project for the military. This picture shows how successful they are.

13 votes

If too many people gather in one place, it would be too inviting a target for terrorists. If more people were in this picture, the terrorists would win.

26 votes

There are more people attending the game, but they all just happened to go to the bathroom at the same time.

24 votes

63 votes | Poll has closed

You can ask DC a question

Elihu — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:53:03 -0000

You can ask DC a question

Sporting News Today has a feature that lets you send in questions to a sports personality. They pick the five best questions & publish the them with the answers. Today, they have Darryl Clark listed. Go to the link above or below and at the bottom, left of the page they have the info.
http://www.sportingnewstoday.com/20090603/?pg=3

Bradley talked to BC

Elihu — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:57:06 -0000

Bradley talked to BC

I think BC knew they wanted to hire Spaziani, but I thought it was interesting that they talked with Bradley. Maybe Scraps is looking to get out, too.

Take 2: Comparing how teams did against their opponents' averages

Elihu — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:00:58 -0000

I changed the spreadsheet. There isn't any new data, but I added a function to calculate the values. This makes the formulas on the spreadsheet simpler, but adds more processing behind the scenes. What does this mean to you? If you just want to see the deltas for the teams that were listed before, you don't need to get the new copy. There isn't any new data. If you want to be able to add more teams or other stats, it is much easier to do now. There are notes at the bottom of the spreadsheet describing how to add things.

Thanks for all the comments on the original fanpost (http://www.blackshoediaries.com/2008/12/17/695763/comparing-how-teams-did-ag). I realize this doesn't give you an exact comparison of different teams. I'm hoping it could be a starting point for getting others to consider how distorting some straight stats are without a reference point. If somebody wanted to play with the function to use standard deviations, etc. that would be great, but I'm not planning to do that. By adding the function and simplifying the data on the spreadsheet, I hoped to make that easier for someone else to do.

As an Excel spreadsheet: http://home.comcast.net/~elihurozen/delta.xls

As a web page: http://home.comcast.net/~elihurozen/Delta.htm