Lysander

It’s an old complaint on behalf of schools that historically might have played out of state games but I feel (perhaps inaccurately) that more teams than ever are playing out of state. If a team is playing 2 games out of state during the regular season that means that over 20% of the comparative data is wholly missing. There’s simply no way you can consider that an analysis lacking 20% of the games played (Sags) to be as predictive as a system that does incorporate those games (CalPreps) so long as the system including all games isn’t simply poorly constructed intrinsically. Admittedly, Sagarin, even with its faults is likely a heckuva better at evaluating than me holding my finger to the wind but it’s still…..flawed.

Gotta be honest, as someone who pays a lot of attention to Sags and CalPreps, I’m totally down with the transitive value being utilized to predict outcomes. You just need a lot of games (more inputs) played before it begins to become predictive…not a few or single game. In the end, I’ll trust the transitive value used en gros over most alternative. With that, I’m still very uncomfortable with Sags this year…even at this late stage of the season. Maybe just confirmation bias on my part but I really think the lack of incorporating out of state games in Sagarin seems to be more problematic than most any prior year I can recall.

Wow, that is absolutely amazing! Kudos again to the Crusaders.

Shout out to @Cyoguru and the St Michael Crusaders for their 14-6 Cadet AAA victory over the St. Pius Panthers yesterday in a hard fought win. Wistfully (to me), the PA system yesterday echoed names that have been heard on Indianapolis Catholic HS football fields both currently and for some decades. It’s a bit of a time warp to attend these great CYO games. Two questions for the Guru, though. First, just how many times have the Crusaders played in and or won the Cadet Championship in the last 20 years? Seems they are always playing this time of year. Second, and most importantly, is this most recent Championship the swan song for the Guru?

No disagreement on this end.

Interesting….EC.

He’s been my choice all year.

Chatard 35 Delta 6 Final Delta’s a great looking school/facility, btw. Really cool electronic Eagle logo on the building entrance.

Ditka’s school (among others) if I recall correctly.

I don’t necessarily disagree but, for good or ill, something was inevitable. I favor this vs the alternative automatic one class bump for P/Ps (which I actually originally favored). I’d also add it gives teams a chance to win in the class above….which so far only you guys have done in 3A to 4A.

I agree. The success factor still needs tweaking but I believe it’s the best solution. I strongly disagreed at its inception, admittedly.

Sorry…I’m out of emojis for today. Still, love the comment. Another comment I wish I could “emoji”. Well done, sir.

Genius is almost always unrecognized in its own time.

My Old Man owned several school bus routes in Franklin County. That’s how he, quite literally, smuggled me into the big elementary school in Brookville. His declaration was that there was no damn way he would allow me to “sit my little @ss” on the wooden outhouse in our hometown/village/refugee camp of Metamora elementary school. That’s why I only stop at Buc-ees when traveling south to this very day. That said, there were certain homes on those Franklin County gravel roads you stayed WELL outside of shotgun range when picking up kids. Another call may be happening as well based on what I’m hearing….

Truth.

Firstly, despite Memorial causing me to lose extremities in a freezing 2008 loss and then squashing the dreams of my kid back in 2009….and just generally doing it to every Chatard team they have played the last 15 years, I’m a huge fan of Memorial. In part, as a massive underdog, I was rooting for Memorial against Reitz. After watching the game I felt even more strongly about that. With that, Southeast Indiana is the Rodney Dangerfield of Indiana HS football - NO RESPECT. Everybody NE, NW and SW p!sses and moans about not getting any respect. These are generally big@ss populations (I observe as a small town kid) crying about this….50-250,000 populations feeding into the various schools. Just check out southeast Indiana. 20 squirrels, 10 deer and a school bus driving 3 miles between pickups on a gravel road. East Central is basically a P.O. Box that gets checked once a week. And yet they are probably able to play Ben Davis and Center Grove within an inch of their lives this year. Their easy win over Moeller v. Center Grove’s OT win seems to justify that. That said, being the sole default Indiana suburb (other than Lawrenceburg and South Dearborn) for Cincinnati doesn’t hurt. That considered, I really don’t think that has any d@mn thing to do with it. They just kick whatever @ss is put in front of them. Still…love you guys at Memorial….

…..but Reitz (public)? Without naming particular parties. The whole public/private thing is tiresome as regards the “recruiting” thing. Public school recruiting of hoops players is legendary in Indiana. People literally brag about it.

”Doing more with less.”

Sadly, I’m all out of “laugh” emojis for the day, Gentlemen.

I’d hope so…those folks over there are generally morons. I’ve always got a kick out of the Peyton Manning one.

More here than on Facebook?

Churchill had a saying about the “Hun”. Watching Reitz’ season I am, perhaps unfairly, reminded of it.

Yeah….I ran late to that one….had some transportation issues.

Seems I might have heard about that sometime way back when….

Yep. Fun night to jump around to watch a lot of games.