Peter Keating
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Mar 2025
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Yeah, look, last year, what were the criticisms of UConn? They were injured and they didn't have their best lineup on the court at all the time. And what was their strength of schedule? This year you can't hold either one of those things against them. They finally have Beckers and Putt on the court at the same time.
And by some measures, Sarah Strong has been the most efficient player in the entire country. And they've played a tougher schedule. They're right up there in our spreadsheets with South Carolina.
Finally, they're supposed to finally get Ayoka Lee back for the tournament, right? I mean, she was the inside presence to their fantastic fleet of guards that surrounded her. And they were a top 10 team until she got hurt. And I think they, you know, they did not end the year looking good. But when they have everybody playing, they're really good.
I actually did not know that. That's fantastic. Yes. That was quite a tournament history.
I mean, well, now I'm a Sarah Strong fan, too. So now we're going to be even harder. Go go harder on you.
Right on time. A win is the most basic stat of all, so it kind of is. We're going to claim wins.
I want to say, I think there's something a little deeper going on that we should pay some respect to, which is that modern analytics have moved baseball away from base stealing, have moved football away from rushing, have moved basketball away from the inside game. A lot of people grew up where sports meant a lot more violence and physical contact and beat the hell out of the other guy.
And over time, more information discovered other ways to defeat your opponents. There are people who just don't like that. People who don't like how thinking about these things and the kind of bruising competitions they're used to enjoying go together. But it's all just information. It all just makes it smarter. It all just makes it more fun. Oh, and you're right.
But I also, there's something a little more general to keep in mind that a way through this is to embrace the crazy, embrace the randomness. People want to ascribe events to reasons and character and moral turpitude. Sometimes shit just happens. I mean, yeah, we've been studying college basketball for 20 years.
The closest we've been able to get in explaining the variance and what happens in order is it's not anywhere close to 100%. So you can embrace the fact that crazy stuff happens, appreciate it, doesn't have to be sustainable. And it still should be really enjoyable when unexpected things happen, even if it's a little more predictable.
Well, the three point revolution. I mean, if that's that's kind of the paragon example of of how things have changed. Sure. But you got to remember, sports can also legislate against too much change. I mean, baseball just passed rules against the shift and instituted a, you know, for 150 years, baseball intellectuals were writing that the great timeless thing about baseball was there's no clock.
Well, they changed it and it kind of made things better, right? So, you know, if we can't all get together and decide if this is too much, you know, we don't have robot umpires yet. If we don't want robot umpires, nobody's going to force us to have robot umpires. We can all get together and decide this is too much change. Let's keep things a little more fun if we want to. Sports have done that too.
I would love to see the unintended consequences. You know, when's the last time a baseball team actually succeeded when they tried to recruit a free agent because they said, oh, look... I'm going to ignore this video trickery. I just want everybody to know my hat's still pointing up. You know, often that doesn't work out, which just adds to the fun.
Listen, I think if it's within certain bounds, you know, there are rules about how far the fences can be in baseball. You can't just do whatever you want. There's certain minimums and maximums. That could be really interesting.
And unless you really like bicycling and no, no Florida Panthers, because we decided because we are we do a lot of analytics work. We decided Connor McDavid wasn't overrated.
The Dan Le Batard Show · Hour 2: Jon Gruden Is Feelin Nicey (Feat. The Underdogs) · 12 Dec 2024
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I did their show and he couldn't even show up. I had to do it alone. Wait, you did their show alone? Yes, because there was a technology issue. I like him just doing underdogs. Hey, David Sampson, it's underdogs.
I mean, if I needed it, which I don't, but hypothetically if I needed it, because I wasn't already a Bowl Season expert, Dan. What do you make of trying to put bets on Bowl Season when there are dozens of opt-outs of every game, coaches changing minute by minute and sort of like the... The incentive to winning the games has slightly diminished since the playoffs started.
It's under negotiation.
Das ist aggressiv. Wenn du gesagt hast, Tony Awards, habe ich fast auf Tony geschaut.
Gib mir ein Bowl Game, das ich betten kann. Nur eins.
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