By: Larry

Larry — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:26:52 +0000

AD, sorry, but until very recently, if you look at the record, they were right on track. All you had to do was take the number of games won at any given point compared to the number of games played and multiply it out to the end of the season. Obviously, the more games played the more accurate the math will be (as an extreme example, if you base it on the 1st game played and you win, if you do the math, you are going to have an undefeated season). That can change radically if on game 2 you lose (now you only have a 50% win rate). How early into the season did ESPN start the tracker? If it was less than say 10 games in an 82 game season, then it was definitely premature. Just about anything can happen in sports and on any given game day, either team can win. There are upsets and wins that go against the spread all the time. But the probabilities are the probabilities (as any casino in Vegas will tell you), in the long run…

By: AD

AD — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:35:48 +0000

Really it (the infamous record) should not have even been brought up… I thought it a little shameful of ESPN to even have a tracker that early in the season… Now if a team someday gets late in the season and has that poor of a record I can see people talking about it… but, really we werent even close.

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