Prediction League RESULTS Thread

[Stuhoo 82,548]

5 minutes ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

I've heard better trash talk at my grandson's chess matches or at an afternoon English tea party.  What is this world coming to?

 

Old Fart getting properly trash talked:

[Dave from Dayton 3,383]

6 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

 

Old Fart getting properly trash talked:

Which one is Old Fart?

(Probably the one on the right.  Reaching to knock over the king.)

[go iu bb 6,910]

3 hours ago, Dave from Dayton said:

Which one is Old Fart?

(Probably the one on the right.  Reaching to knock over the king.)

The one on the right. His is an ironic name.

[BottomLine 687]

7 hours ago, Stuhoo said:

Thanks for notifying me.

It's been hard to see that far down the rankings below me.

Quietly and in the background you have done a great job and have made up a lot of ground.  Alas it is too little and too late.   No victory this year.

[BottomLine 687]

9 hours ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

Man, the trash talk among the leaders is really soft this year.  Bunch of pansies!

Usually don't like to engage with my inferiors.  Just make them feel even worse about their inability to keep up.  But now I'm upset.  Who are you calling a pansy - pansy.  We may need to meet at dawn to settle this gentlemanly dispute.

[Stuhoo 82,548]

30 minutes ago, BottomLine said:

Quietly and in the background you have done a great job and have made up a lot of ground.  Alas it is too little and too late.   No victory this year.

Thanks!

No.

No thanks.

[Class of '66 Old Fart 86,269]

44 minutes ago, BottomLine said:

Usually don't like to engage with my inferiors.  Just make them feel even worse about their inability to keep up.  But now I'm upset.  Who are you calling a pansy - pansy.  We may need to meet at dawn to settle this gentlemanly dispute.

Sorry.  I'm retired and don't get up until 9:00 am but go ahead and feel free to start without me.

[Stuhoo 82,548]

16 minutes ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

Sorry.  I'm retired and don't get up until 9:00 am but go ahead and feel free to start without me.

You have an old guy nine hours of sleep prostate?

Impressive!

[RaceToTheTop 26,904]

My calculations of IU's best five wins and worst five losses, based on the chance that the last at large bid in the tournament would win the game:

Best wins:

at Purdue:  13% chance to win

at Xavier:  23% chance to win

Purdue:  32% chance to win

at Illinois:  32% chance to win

at Michigan:   35% chance to win

Worst losses:

Northwestern:  64% chance to win

Iowa:  53% chance to win

at Penn State:  38% chance to win

at Northwestern 38% chance to win

at Rutgers:  33% chance to win

For comparison, Purdue's best and worst five:

Best wins:

Gonzaga (neutral court) 24%

at Michigan St 28%

West Virginia (neutral court) 33%

at Michigan 35%

Marquette 39%

Worst (only) five losses:

Rutgers 55%

Indiana 51%

at Northwestern 38%

at Indiana 29%

at Maryland 24%

 

[Class of '66 Old Fart 86,269]

38 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

You have an old guy nine hours of sleep prostate?

Impressive!

Don't tell anyone, but I sleep in a bathtub.

[BottomLine 687]

1 hour ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

Sorry.  I'm retired and don't get up until 9:00 am but go ahead and feel free to start without me.

Fine by me.  I figure I'm the oldest one on here.  IU class of 69.  That means I'll be 76 this July.  Usually in bed by 2 and up around 10-10:30.  Of course that doesn't take into account the bathroom trips in the middle of the night or getting up at 6 to take care of the dogs and the cat.  They are my pick'em mentors.  I "read" their droppings.

 

[HoosierHoopster 7,277]

3 minutes ago, BottomLine said:

Fine by me.  I figure I'm the oldest one on here.  IU class of 69.  That means I'll be 76 this July.  Usually in bed by 2 and up around 10-10:30.  Of course that doesn't take into account the bathroom trips in the middle of the night or getting up at 6 to take care of the dogs and the cat.  They are my pick'em mentors.

Thanks for making me feel young again

:)

Who wins the arm wrestling match between you and @Class of '66 Old Fart - over/under on 2 bathroom breaks?

[Stuhoo 82,548]

16 minutes ago, HoosierHoopster said:

Thanks for making me feel young again

:)

Who wins the arm wrestling match between you and @Class of '66 Old Fart - over/under on 2 bathroom breaks?

I’m betting on Old Fart. Sleeping in that bathtub gives him a notable bathroom break advantage.

[coonhounds 9,530]

Curse any of the ones who got iu score right in the michigan game! Even more pissed at race now than I was yesterday lol

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[BottomLine 687]

17 minutes ago, HoosierHoopster said:

Thanks for making me feel young again

:)

Who wins the arm wrestling match between you and @Class of '66 Old Fart - over/under on 2 bathroom breaks?

Depends are a good thing! 

Just realized Class of '66 Old Fart and I were probable on campus at the same time.  Maybe we knew each other.  At our ages it is so easy to forget.

[Class of '66 Old Fart 86,269]

3 minutes ago, BottomLine said:

Depends are a good thing! 

Just realized Class of '66 Old Fart and I were probable on campus at the same time.  Maybe we knew each other.  At our ages it is so easy to forget.

No doubt we did since there were only about 50 of us on campus in 1866.

[HoosierAloha 30,077]

1 hour ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

No doubt we did since there were only about 50 of us on campus in 1866.

Doing a little math here... after taking the Race route to graduation you started with the inaugural class at IUB in 1820?

[BottomLine 687]

1 hour ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

No doubt we did since there were only about 50 of us on campus in 1866.

I'm a retired history teacher.  Always told my students I knew Abraham Lincoln.  Does that count?  I do know quite a bit about him.

You going to tell me you helped dig the well for the well house?  Did buffalo still roam the campus back then?  No, wait, you were around to pump up the first basketball for the Hoosiers.  I give up.  You are older than me, but we are both still older than dust.

[Stuhoo 82,548]

This thread has turned pretty freaking off-topic awesome

[HoosierAloha 30,077]

3 hours ago, RaceToTheTop said:

My calculations of IU's best five wins and worst five losses, based on the chance that the last at large bid in the tournament would win the game:

Best wins:

at Purdue:  13% chance to win

at Xavier:  23% chance to win

Purdue:  32% chance to win

at Illinois:  32% chance to win

at Michigan:   35% chance to win

Worst losses:

Northwestern:  64% chance to win

Iowa:  53% chance to win

at Penn State:  38% chance to win

at Northwestern 38% chance to win

at Rutgers:  33% chance to win

For comparison, Purdue's best and worst five:

Best wins:

Gonzaga (neutral court) 24%

at Michigan St 28%

West Virginia (neutral court) 33%

at Michigan 35%

Marquette 39%

Worst (only) five losses:

Rutgers 55%

Indiana 51%

at Northwestern 38%

at Indiana 29%

at Maryland 24%

 

This seems to backup my thought purdoodoo was steadier than us while we had the win/lose to anybody.

Do you have the numbers on games we should have won easily but squeaked out? Thinking mostly about the Minny game.