Just so we're all on the same page

I played The Star Spangled Banner on the cazoo...

 

It doesn't matter which team you think is the best, none of them would have anything more than a small chance of winning an eight or more team playoff. That's simply due to the nature of the format. When you have to win three or more consecutive games to avoid elimination, the chances of that happening for anyone are small. That's where luck comes into the picture. The team that wins a tournament is usually the luckiest one, because an advantage in talent only matters so much in that format.

The BCS is a compromise between those who liked the old bowl system and those who were frustrated by it. Everyone who isn't an idiot acknowledges that a playoff would make even more money.

Good grief, I just answered this same question the other day. Tournaments make money for the NCAA, even in sports like lacrosse. It's the schools themselves that lose money, not the NCAA, and the schools go along with it because everyone talks themselves into believing that they can get lucky and win. It's the same reason why morons waste money on lottery tickets.

Plenty. Tons of people have argued that the Giants weren't the best team in the NFL last year, and they're right. Plenty bitched about the Cardinals winning the World Series in 2006 because they only won 51.6% of their regular season games. Controversies persist regardless of the format you use, and it's because people love to bitch. Do you ever listen to talk radio? People bitch about the refs, they bitch about the seeding, they bitch about any number of things that supposedly determined the outcome of a game. That's the nature of modern sports, unfortunately.

 

So, to sum things up, it is mutually agreed by all present that a playoff would be far superior to this God-foresaken BCS system. Thank you for your input and support. I now have to go. I have a final in my college level statistics course tonight.

 

On the other hand, it greatly reduces the ambiguity. The whole thing's silly, really. If Texas had lost to TT early on and then beaten OU in the final week, they'd be #1. Florida lucked out and lost early so they get to be #1.

I completely get what you say that playoffs introduce randomness, but most people would take that randomness over "what if".

 

Nothing dishonest about it. Your statistical analysis is basically correct about the interjection of randomness. I just think you miss the entire point of what sports and competition is about.

To you, it's quarterback rankings and 3rd down conversions, strength of schedule and point differential. You're just another in a long line contributing to the bastardization of sports. Instead of enjoying sports for what they are about, it gets turned into numbers and formulaes by slide rule fucktards who think numbers are what really matter instead of actual competition.

[chris]I wish that Bill James and his Stats Inc minions along with those fuckers that started Roto baseball back in the '80's had been aborted with a rusty shit encrusted coat hanger. [/chris]

 

stats are good predictors, but they're not a substitute for on-field play, no.

 

Not at all. Why would people say "what if" about Texas Tech pulling it out against Texas but not say the exact same thing if it happened in a playoff game? People talk about the time about "what if Player X wasn't hurt?", "what if Wide Receiver Y didn't drop that touchdown pass?", and "what if Team A had been matched up with Team C instead of Team D?" What do you think the term "Monday Morning Quarterback" means? That kind of second-guessing happens regardless of whether you have a playoff or a rankings-determined championship game.

Yes, it is, because unlike most you aren't ignorant enough to believe the nonsense you're spewing. You know that these other people are idiots and that the arguments for a playoff are full of crap. You don't care because you're a fundamentally dishonest person who gets amusement from supporting nonsense. You're a nihilist.

That's rich coming from a useless fat fuck who doesn't even give a shit about sports. Of your 20,465 posts, only 62 have been in the Panthers forum, 105 have been in College Football, 1 in Baseball, 289 in Basketball, 1 in Hockey, and 110 in SportsTalk. That's about 3% of your total posts, with many of those only being shots at me, like this one. You played football 30 years ago in high school because you were a bloated tub of lard, but you haven't given a shit about sports since then. You certainly don't care about sports now, this is just a chance for you to once again be antagonistic towards me because you enjoy pissing me off.

You don't show any interest whatsoever in sports. You don't go to games. You don't coach youth or rec teams. You don't post about sports with any frequency. You don't write about sports. You haven't created websites devoted to a team. You don't save games and watch them later because you're interested in studying the players more closely. You don't give a flying shit about sports, you're just posing that way to manipulate a group of gullible idiots.


The calls for a college football playoff are not about the integrity of the sport, they're an assault on that integrity. They're about selfish, fat assholes whose only experience with sports comes through the television, and they want more quality TV. They want more games, more opportunities to gamble, more things to watch. They don't give a flying shit about the kids or the parents. They don't give a flying shit about maintaining the quality of the regular season because they're not fans and they don't give a shit about watching regular season games.

Competition is about the drive to go out and win every game. Playoffs result in teams resting their starters because they already have a spot and don't want to risk any injuries that last week. But by all means, go right on pretending like you give a shit about sports with that impressive 3% of your posts being about them. Pretend like you understand sports because you were some fat fuck who played high school football thirty years ago and has had nothing whatsoever to do with them since then. And while you're at it, feel free to gloat about accomplishing that goal of pissing me off.

 

"What if this play had actually made the play" is NOT the same thing as "What if Auburn had a chance to play for the national championship in 2004".

I can't believe you're comparing the two.

 

You're the one who brought up the "what if" about Texas losing to Texas Tech, genius. You didn't mention anything about Auburn, but don't let facts stop you from another rant. I can't believe that you still have the nerve to talk to me without double-checking whatever you want to say. Thank whatever it is that you believe in that you'll never know how frustrating it is to try and explain anything to you.