I've mentioned my company is leaning pretty hard into a particular teamwork based AI system. I don't think I'll ever use it for writing or the like, but there are sooooo many new technical terms I keep coming across as we deal with a wide variety of industries, products, and processes.
I will admit it has been useful for giving me a quick summary of these things so I can keep going through the email, etc. without having to stumble around for an explanation. Obviously I don't trust it 100%, but I think in my case, since the answers are so cut and dry, it does a decent job with brief summarizations.
I was browsing MLB app stats pages and saw Joe Ryan leads in HB with four, but what caught my eye was tied with three just below him is Richard Lovelady in a TC cap - he apparently was a Blue Jay, but who is this guy?
So his parents knew his last name would be Lovelady and they named him Dick?
Ryan also leads in walks surrendered: zero.
Awesome WHIP yet again
There’s another thing to make baseball a lot faster, if the pitcher hits the batter with the ball - batter’s out. You hit twenty-seven guys, you got yourself a perfect game my friend. You get two really good accurate pitchers out there and you could be out of that ballpark in fifteen minutes. -George Carlin
The Wolves just scored FIFTY-TWO points in the third quarter, beating their previous best quarter (done four times) by six.
That is one way to help keep yourself from blowing the game in the 4th quarter.
6-1 in their last 7 games and still stuck in the 8th seed. Pretty nuts.
That Milwaukee loss would potentially really haunt them if the season ended today. If Minnesota had won that game, they'd be up to the 4th seed, because they have 3 wins against Denver and 3 wins against the Clippers, so they would also win a 3-way tiebreak amongst those teams.
That also means if somehow the Warriors and Grizzlies pass the Nuggets and Clippers, and Minnesota's in a 3-way tie for 6-8 with Denver and LAC, they would be 6th and avoid the play-in.
I could really waste a lot of time looking at these tiebreak scenarios.
I think the 7th and 8th might be preferable to the 6th. I'd hate to play the Lakers in the first round.
5 seed Wolves v. 4 seed Warriors has a good possibility and I think a good match up. Agree about avoiding the Lakers.
I do .wonder if someone might nip the Lakers at the wire for the 3rd seed. It would only take the Lakers losing to the Rockets (who have been good) and either the Clippers or Nuggets to win out
I’ve wasted my share of time doing so, when I should really just wait 72 hours and not go crazy. But yes, I’m obsessing about the Milwaukee loss, even though there are another eight or ten losses early in the season that look all too similar.
I’ve wasted my share of time doing so, when I should really just wait 72 hours and not go crazy.
Same goes for NHL scenarios. I've basically "trained" myself to not obsess over these playoff scenarios until the last remaining game. Before that too many moving parts and one loss or win by my team or other teams changes things up so much. With one game left, much easier for my mind to process and get a good sense of what's at stake.
Would be nice to see some odds from Monte Carlo simulations, but with no more 538, I'm not sure who might do that for the NBA.