There has been a lot of talk surrounding the College Football Playoff the last few weeks, as there has been for the last four years around this time, and whether the selection committee chose the “correct” four teams to play for the national championship. Storylines like Georgia’s strong showing against Alabama in the SEC title game, Ohio State’s domination of Michigan and the nations top … Continue reading 6-Team College Football Playoff
Baseball has always been the sport that is the slowest to change and takes a hard nosed stance on tradition and its value to the game. That being said, Major League Baseball teams have embraced the shift. In the 2018 season, every team in baseball shifted to some varying degree, many over 1,000 times. The Houston Astros, unsurprisingly, led the way, shifting 2,191 times with … Continue reading Banning the Shift in Major League Baseball
There is not a great slate of games in the Big Ten this week. Last week kicked off the new conference schedule that features a 20 game schedule. Each team played two conference games last week, and will pick up with conference play again after another couple weeks of non-conference bouts. Six Big Ten teams are still currently ranked, with Maryland and Nebraska dropping out … Continue reading Big Ten Bouts | Dec. 10-16
This post delves further into the multi-level fantasy baseball league that I proposed before. If you haven’t read the first part, read it here, otherwise this won’t make much sense to you. I left off explaining how clients are assigned to their agents and vice versa. Now I will explain how contracts are negotiated between GM’s and agents. If a player is drafted and the … Continue reading Multi-Level Fantasy Baseball – Contracts
Fantasy baseball is one of the many virtual sports that has taken off considerably in the last decade or so. Major entities like ESPN, CBS, Yahoo, MLB, and others have the traditional head-to-head (H2H) leagues and rotisserie (ROTO) style. Many people love these methods and have developed dynasty leagues where rosters carry over from year to year and you can draft minor league players to … Continue reading Multi-Level Fantasy Baseball League
I will be the first one to tell you that soccer has never been my first love and I can say with relative surety that it never will be. However, I have really enjoyed watching soccer in the recent past and I can see why millions of people do call the sport their first love. The English Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, and other European … Continue reading The MLS is Back and You Should Care
The recent news surrounding the NCAA and a number of affiliated universities is astonishing. The breadth and depth of the information that the FBI has found is unprecedented in collegiate sports to date. A slew of elite programs across the country have been a part of the underground market that is collegiate basketball. For years, people have, correctly, assumed that there is dirty dealing going … Continue reading Where Does the NCAA Go From Here?
Balance sheet from federal investigation into NCAA basketball (Credit: Yahoo Sports) Anyone that has watched NCAA basketball for the last few decades can tell that there definitely has to be some underlying system that helps these star athletes that grew up with nothing, attend nationally acclaimed athletic programs on full scholarships and continue to live with nothing. To leave their families behind in squalor or … Continue reading The NCAA’s Negligence is Finally Showing Through
The only way to describe the basketball game last night between Wittenberg University and the College of Wooster is a game for the ages. Something that those in attendance will never forget and will tell people about for years to come. Most people don’t know what or where Wittenberg University or the College of Wooster are. To quickly educate you, they are NCAA Division III … Continue reading The Best Basketball Game You Didn’t See
For many people, their first reaction (including myself) was to write off the USA men’s hockey team after it came out early last year that the NHL was not allowing for its players to participate in the Pyeongchang Olympics. The thought was really that with college players or minor league making up the roster, they would have little chance of even qualifying for the olympics.Well … Continue reading Why You Should Watch USA Hockey in the Olympics
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