Category Archives: Quick Slant

Quick Slant: Murray State punches ticket

Posted on February 18, 2012 by Monte

One cool thing we can do with the rest-of-season simulation is look at the effect that the outcome of a specific game can have. As an example, take today’s headline BracketBusters game between Murray State and St. Mary’s that just … Continue reading →

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Quick Slant: QBR versus Current Metrics

Posted on August 7, 2011 by Monte

Neil Paine over at the PFR blog wrote basically what I was going to follow up with  (albeit much better than I would have). I just wanted to add in a couple other correlations with current metrics that I looked … Continue reading →

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Quick Slant: Descriptive versus Predictive

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Monte

This is the first of my posts that I’ll call “Quick Slants”. These posts will be short and to the point, sometimes discussing a current event, a hot topic, or just a random topic I’m interested in. In this post, I … Continue reading →

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