Dr. Z's initial power rankings
by Chickadee on Sep 3, 2008 12:44 PM PDT
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Sure, the seahawks are at 11, whatever, we could talk about all those medai drags we put up with. What I want to note is our devision rivals. 27, 28, 29 cards, niners, rams. That's pretty rough. Take a look at the list and tell me where YOU think they belong. I need eight more words, apparrently, for this.
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Personally, I think it was lacking more than just eight words.
But this guy’s rankings look somewhat off. Vikings that high? I don’t know; early season power rankings seem silly to me since so much is unknown at this point and will chance in the first few weeks.
Last night some dude on NFL Live said the vikings were going to be in the NFC championship game
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 3, 2008 12:53 PM PDT up reply actions
vikings could definitely play for the championship
if tarvaris jackson doesn’t screw it up for them. they probably have the best dline in the league, one of the best olines and 2 very good running backs. they’ll be hard to beat every week.
Tavaris Jackson will screw it up for them.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 3, 2008 1:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Tavaris Jackson is bad
And so are their receivers and secondary.
He likes the Vikings to win the super bowl
he wrote about it a month or so ago. They’re kind of his darling team this year I guess.
Here we go.
Capitalize the team names.
Spell check.
Use the link button.
Take a second to correct the formatting.
And if your going to do ranking posts.
Include more sites. ESPN, Yahoo Sports, CBSsportsline all have there rankings. So we can at least compare.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 3, 2008 1:22 PM PDT up reply actions
Personally
If its valuable info/breaking news/good debate topic then I don’t care how many words you use. But if its the Sportsline Puts Wrong logo post. Write something more.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 3, 2008 1:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Breaking news stuff is acceptable, I think Jeff/Matthew/Graham have the same exception over at LL.
Debate topic should have at least 75 words in my mind, at least enough to direct a clear path of discussion.
As do I.
As such, I bestow upon this blog a wonderful gift that I hope will be used by Mr. Morgan and Scruffy Lefty judiciously.
So lets make sure I get this right
When the Shift key is applied. Then logical discussion must follow in the subthread bellow?
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 3, 2008 1:44 PM PDT up reply actions
The Chad Jackson FanPost
is a good example of what a shorter FanPost should be.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 3, 2008 1:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Damn SBN 2.0
This should be up more
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 3, 2008 1:47 PM PDT up reply actions
That's a part of the auto-update feature I don't like.
I hate it when my screen jumps when I click reply.
I will say this line is classic
All they do is win division titles and games. The key here is keeping Matt Hasselbeck on the field since he has back issues. The receiving situation isn’t good.
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God dammit that's all we do.
Good teams miss the playoffs every other season.
Hit the panic button
The receiving situation isn’t good
Sweet Jesus some guy that knows nothing about this team doesn’t like how many 6th round draft picks from Auburn this team has at WR. Were boned.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 3, 2008 1:55 PM PDT up reply actions
power rankings
I stopped consulting them once I started tracking the DVOA ratings more closely. Even if flawed, that’s a better strategy then following whatever whimsy strikes a columnist.
Granted
but Paul Zimmerman has been doing this for years and has developed a good bit of humility with his selections. That is to say Dr. Z is kinda the outlier in my opinion when it comes to the whimsies of columnists.
Why? Because the Seahawks rock my socks.
Oh and Chickadee
don’t think that were trying to tell you not to make FanPosts we just want more thought into them. And I still love your additions to the Video Previews.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 3, 2008 2:05 PM PDT up reply actions
I knew you still loved me
but this is just icing on the cake.
P.S. I hear you, I just get lazy :(
Why? Because the Seahawks rock my socks.
I feel like averaging all these media rankings
could work like a small sample version of when LL does group projections. Obviously these dudes can (and often do) get shit wrong, but it’s still a pool of minds that expends a lot of energy thinking about the game.
Or do these rankings have too much publication value over projection value?
It would fun to take the average rankings of these systems.
And compare them to FO at the end of the season.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 3, 2008 2:32 PM PDT up reply actions
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