Here is the state of the 2nd season of my Dynasty Baseball All Futility League (all teams lost 96 + games). Teams available for those interested are listed. If you click on the link for the various teams you get to their home page and can see their stats, leaders, injuries etc. Can you hold an existing lead or take a trailing team to the top?
I am also running an all average team league called the SD Jones memorial .500 teams league. All teams were no better than 2 games over .500 or no worse than 2 games under. Here are the current standings. Teams still available are listed. This is our initial season.
The invite for the 3rd season of our great teams league. Last season the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers repeated as world champs defeating the 2010 Texas Rangers 4 games to two. Can they three peat? And what team would YOU like to manage to try and stop them? We will be starting this league within two weeks.
Finally in our face to face league one player will be having a medical issue and a 2nd might also needing him to take some time off. We have one alternate available but he has already taken a team. If you had an interest in joining our league that plays every other Saturday in Fitchburg MA (1 pm EST) leave a comment here and I’ll give you details.
won 11 or more game (10 in a 14 game season) 14.6% of the time
won their division 12% of the time
made the playoffs 24% of the time
won a playoff game 9.7% of the time
went to a championship game 7% of the time winning 0%
While the Patriots with Brady:
Had a winning record 100% of the time
The Patriots won at least 12 games 70% of the time
The Patriots won their division & made the playoffs 90% of the time
The Patriots won at LEAST one playoff game 70% of the time
The Patriots went to the Superbowl 50% of the time
The Patriots WON the superbowl 30% of the time (67% of the times they went)
Given those facts combined with the fact that the worst season of the Brady Era was a 9-7 record I set the bottom of the expectations barrel for an OK season being 9-7 a winning record,
However as many people argued for years that Brady’s success was due to Bill Belichck now considered by many the best coach of all time. Many of the anti-Brady crowd gave him a lot of credit for that success so I adjusted these expectations up two games to 11-5 figuring if a good coach can make a one game difference the greatest coach of all time should at least be able to manage to put an extra win or two out of his hat. After all the were only 3 Brady years that they failed to win at least 11.
Instead the Patriots go into this weekend not only eliminated from the playoffs for the 1st time since Brady’s injury kept him out for a season but fighting for the chance, the chance mind you to finish .500 for the season.
This makes the Bill Belichick Era going into today’s game a 24-34 as the coach of the New England Patriots in games not started by Tom Brady and in the three seasons that he coached the team sans Brady he made the playoffs….nearly once.
My expectations scale was “fire the bum” if he failed to win at least 11 but given the Covid situation that while effecting all teams hit his team hard I’d give him another season’s leeway, particularly if he can manage to make .500. If not I think we can safely say that the question of Bill vs Tom in terms of credit has been answered conclusively.
Closing thought #1: It’s worth noting that New England not only missed the playoffs but did so in a year with an extra playoff spot while going into their final three games holding the tiebreakers against all the teams ahead of them..
Closing Thought #2 The biggest difference has been the expectations game. During the Brady era the expectations of the sports fans and sports radio in Boston was “Patriots Win” except for that playoff game in KC (That Brady Still won) Does anyone really think that this team wouldn’t have at least 10 wins and be heading at worst to a wild card game if they had Brady under center this year?
Closing thought #3: For all this critique let’s remember that with a good starting QB with a long term contract in hand Belichick with that 199th pick still saw what every other GM in the league, including those without a good QB signed long term, didn’t.
Posted: December 27, 2020 by datechguy in nfl, Sports
With one exception I’ve had little use for the new Woke NFL this season. As you may or may not know I’ve never been a huge football fan, but I’ve been a fan of three players in my lifetime. The 1st of Steve Grogan who I thought was the toughest player to ever play QB and the 2nd was his favorite receiver Stanley Morgan.
The 3rd is Tom Brady, who single handedly turned around the Boston Sports scene. His success forced the other franchises to get serious about winning. During his time in Boston 12 championships came here, six of them won by him but every major franchise won at least one title (Ironically just as Brady won as many titles as all the major franchise combined his three losses in title game also equals all the other Boston franchise during that time).
While I’ve tuned out the woke NFL I’ve kept tabs on Brady. He’s hated by many in the media/ Left as a Trump friend, although not vocal on it, but it’s no coincidence that Tampa Bay’s is the one franchises whose ratings have been consistently up.
So let’s revisit my expectations for Tampa this season. In their pre-Brady era Tampa Bay:
Had a winning record 30% of the time (13 seasons)
Won 11 or more games 7% of the time (3 seasons 1999,2002,2005)
Won their division 12% of the time (1970,1981, 1999,2002,2005,2007)
Made the playoffs 23% of the time (10 seasons)
Won at least 1 playoff game 9% of the time (1979,1997,1999,2002)
Won the Superbowl 2% (100% of the times they went 2002)
Meanwhile Tom Brady Patriots during his career has
Had a winning record 100% of the time
The Patriots won at least 12 games 70% of the time
The Patriots won their division & made the playoffs 90% of the time
The Patriots won at LEAST one playoff game 70% of the time
The Patriots went to the Superbowl 50% of the time
The Patriots WON the superbowl 30% of the time (67% of the times they went)
and Brady after Age 40 not counting this season has:
Had a winning record 100% of the time
Won at least 12 games 67% of the time (at least 11 100%)
Won his division 100% of the time
Made the playoffs 100% of the time
Won at least 1 playoff game 67% of the time
Gone to the Superbowl 67% of the time
Won the Superbowl 33% of the time
During those three years Tampa Bay has
Had a losing record 100% of the time
Missed the playoffs 100% of the time
We now however have Tom Brady both at age 43 and without Bill Belichick in a division with a Saints team run by the man who he has been fighting for the all time lead in TD’s.
So How is Tom Brady doing at age 43 at the end of a long season.. Well Brady went into yesterday’s game with a chance to send the Bucks to their first post season since 2007. Here’s what he did:
And that’s just in the 1st half.
Bottom line the worst Tampa Bay can do is a 10-6 record and a date with Seattle in the 1st round of the playoffs. Their best case scenario is an 11-5 record and a trip to face the former Redskins.
I set my expectations for Tampa based on three season suggesting they should:
Tampa Bay Should expect to have a winning record 100% of the time
Tampa Bay Should expect to win at least 10 games 67% of the time
Tampa Bay Should expect to make the playoffs 67% of the time
Tampa Bay Should expect to win at least one playoff game 67% of the time
They should expect to win their division at least 33% of the time
They should make the NFC Championship game at least once
As of this moment Brady is 1/3 of the way toward #1 and half way home to 2 & 3. He has two more seasons to manage #5 and we’ll see show he does in the playoffs this season to judge 4 & 6.
But as of right now we must conclude the Brady experiment in Tampa Bay is a success
Closing Thought #1: Brady has had at least one senior moment this season (vs Chicago) and frankly the coaching in Tampa Bay has been abysmal. Does anyone doubt for one moment that if Belichick was coaching this team they would be at worst with 11 wins and be in the hunt for the division title and at best with 12 wins and the Saints chasing them?
Closing Thought #2 It’s worth noting that even if the Playoff Schedule was not expanded then the Bucks would have clinched a berth this year and a trip to Washington.
Closing Though #3 With the Woke NFL ratings crashing and burning the league should thank it’s lucky stars for Brady. Their playoff ratings will likely depend on how far he goes. I hope he goes all the way, not only because I like him but it will make all the right people miserable.
Given Mitch McConnell’s statement warning GOP senators not to challenge electors and force a senate vote I can’t see any incentive for GOP voters to turn out on January 5th for Kelly Loeffner or David Perdue unless they immediately and publicly vow to challenge said electors on the 6th if elected.
Both candidates should be made to commit to do so before a single conservative consents to vote for them.
Apparently Mitch McConnell would rather be the Senate Minority Leader for at least two years rather be majority leader and have his caucus have to vote to challenge electors in a fraudulent election.
Odd that the Democrats are not pushing for such a challenge by the GOP if it will be so fatal for the party isn’t it?
This is in the middle of a pandemic with people stuck at home after supposedly getting 80 million votes
Apparently the mythical Joe Biden voters who gave him the election are like Mayflies they exist and show activity for one day a year and then disappear.
But this year, NFL ratings have taken a hit as pandemic-related postponements have pushed some games to less desirable times and the coronavirus has sidelined some star players. Unexpected competition from other sports leagues whose seasons were delayed from earlier in the year also has taken a toll on ratings.
You have to go to paragraph 20 for the journal to get to the actual reason
Much of the ratings drop is attributed to the 2020 presidential election coverage siphoning away viewers and the pandemic’s wreaking havoc on the league. Aside from reschedulings and some sidelined stars, the league has faced a backlash from some fans over its social justice efforts, including its embrace of Black Lives Matter. These factors are compounded by the secular decline of traditional TV viewing, in which ratings have been eroded by the uptick in ad-free streaming services.
I saw something that made me laugh out loud on twitter yesterday:
Let me introduce you to Vin Gupta Twitter blue check
As you can see Vin is, in addition to a doctor, a NBC news and MSNBC news analyst and he had some big news.
How is this possible that you will gen the Vaccine tomorrow when all the "experts" and networks said that @potus@realDonaldTrump statements that one would be ready by the end of the year were fantasy?
Perhaps he should have also expressed some gratitude on the President who put Operation Warp Speed in place which made it possible.
Of course his gigs on NBC & MSNBC depend on him not doing so. After all “Do no Harm” as a rule for doctors has been replaced by “do no harm to Democrat election prospects”
Unexpectedly of course
Finally As I was writing this post an old tweet of mine from two years ago was retweeted and I found it particularly apt for what might be coming.
It means that genocide against America's current population is very difficult
If there is a more important reminder to those who would enslave us I can’t think of it. I think it’s also worth pointing out that Democrat efforts to convince such heavily armed people that participating in the Democratic Process of a republic is a waste of time by openly stealing an election is short sighted and dangerous.
