Month: September 2007

Is basketball analysis taking another leap?

It certainly looks that way.  Nate Silver announced yesterday on the Baseball Prospectus: Unfiltered blog that BP would be helping to launch basketballprospectus.com next month.  It will be focused mostly on college basketball because their main writer will be Ken Pomeroy of the tremendous kenpom.com site.  John Gasaway of Big Ten Wonk will also be […]

Braves Check: A decent week for a decent team

The Braves have won three of five since my last update on Tuesday, but they need about eight wins each week if they’re going to make the playoffs.  A sweep against the Mets this week will only get them within a sniff of the division title, and it would be a fairly distant sniff. This Week’s […]

NFL Predictions 2007

As has become my tradition in baseball, I will post my 2007 NFL predictions for the world to see.  There probably aren’t a lot of surprises, but I do lean heavily upon the work of Football Outsiders, which undoubtedly is the best NFL site on the internet.  It is one of the few NFL sites that bases predictions […]

I know no one cares, but…

I know I keep violating all the rules of sports blogging by posting about my fantasy teams, but in case anyone does actually care, I’m putting up a page for them. I drafted two more teams this weekend (CBSSports.com Silver, if anyone’s familiar with that format), and I’m pretty happy with both of them.  One […]

Braves Check: Falling flat in September

Fantasy drafting took up pretty much all of my time yesterday, so I didn’t get the chance to update the stats as I had expected.  Today’s post should rectify that.  That big “whoosh” sound you might have heard in Atlanta over the weekend must have been the Braves falling in the standings, as they dropped all the way to […]