How to learn to strategize re and follow college football games
My Annotated College Football Links: http://www.angelfire.com/ma/vincemoon/college_football.htm
How to Have Fun Following College Football While Spending Little or No Money
You might have an interest in gambling on sports, or You might be a purist (sort of like me) who considers gambling on sports impure, but either way you have to learn some things if you want to get a high level of enjoyment out of every minute you put into following college football while in the process spending zero or just a little money.
One of the first problems you would face is finding the statistics relevant to the game you are following. You might be a gambler, you might be simulating gambling with make-believe money, or you might just be into pontificating re what strategy a team should follow if it is going to pull off a stunning upset. Such pontification is a high level of fan-hood found in those amongst fan-dom who are too pure for gambling.
Whatever the basis of your interest, if you were to plunge into Google searches using key words such as college football stats you would probably end up expending alot of time and energy finding the info and then putting together the info for each of the the two teams playing each other, while this info was right under your nose, all put together for you for every game, if you just knew where to look.
Hints: when looking for statistical info related to an event, look for info the way a gambler would look for it, look for sites that cater to gamblers who gamble on such events, nothing motivates like money. And count on the media already having done a good job putting together the stat info re the teams and players in a given event.
Fox, Sportsnetwork (www.bettersreport.com), and USA Today (links to games covered pages) all give the odds for the college football games, and also give tons of stats for both teams in a given game, all brought together in one table on one page.
If you had the time could probably find some nuggets of info that big time websites did not show on their game preview stats summary pages, such would admittedly give you an edge over the masses perusing the big websites, yet still, (USC Notre Dame example pages) Fox, Sportsnetwork, and USA Today all do a better job of pulling such stats together for any of hundreds of games, than you could do for one game, even if you were talent, and skilled and spent several hours on that one game.
The wise course of action would be to first go to the game preview pages at the big websites, then formulate a strategy or a theory, and then use search engines to find info relevant to your strategy/theory, thereby getting an edge on the typical spectator.
Which Games Should I Follow?
A fundamental question is, there are hundreds of games, which one should I follow? The ideal schedule would tell you the ranks of both teams involved in a game, however the best schedules I could find, such as the ESPN schedule, show the rank of a team only if the team ranks in the top 25. This burdens me with the onerous task of researching the ranks of the teams for which the ranks of the teams are not given. It would be a major step forward for mankind, if there were a schedule giving the ranks of teams even if they are not in the top 25. America, where is your common sense? Or is there some alleged, allegedly clever, known-only-MBAs hidden financial reason for such obfuscation? Thus you are still left with looking at ranks of teams, if you want to be thorough and perfectionist. Contact me at this blog or at vincemoon@rcn.com if you know where the schedule shows the ranks of all the teams involved.
Rank of Teams
If you tried to use the search engines to find ranks of teams, you would probably end up wasting plenty of time and energy going to dead links, being referred to some college-whiz-kid's rankings for three years ago, finding rankings that are a problem because they are in a gif or jpeg image and are not text, finding rankings re which who knows how seriously you should take them, plodding through half-assed lists of ranking authorities, lists that, annoyingly, treat a flea of an authority or web page as equal to a lion of an authority or web page. The best webpage by far for college rankings is at http://www.mratings.com/cf/compare.htm. There you can find, for free without paying a penny, the rankings for 119 different teams, by 95 different authorities, all in one HTML table, all together with the mean the median and the standard deviation for all 95 authorities in total, all for free--beyond belief but I kid you not! If you found the mratings.com page after stumbling around adding all kinds of lesser pages to your favorites folder, you would probably be tempted to send the links to these other pages to the trash bin, or worse, if possible, even somehow burn them!
Following the Game live/Real-time
An important part of being a fan who is efficient in terms of enjoyment/minute-spent and enjoyment/dollar-spent is following the game in a real-time play by play basis for free or on the cheap somehow. You have been spending six hours a day, telepathically attempting to catapult some obscure underdog over the top, the way Lee Harvey Oswald used to attempt to move the flame of a candle around through the telekinetic power of his mind. Now you are so psyched up that you would pass up a million bucks just to be able to follow the game on a play by play basis. You want to follow the game for free or on the cheap. But none of the free TV or radio stations in your area cover the game, and you would have to subscribe to the new Hyper-Mega-Ultra Satellite TV service at only $$$ 399.99 per month if you wanted to watch the game on TV. What do you do? Just head for the Yahoo Gameplan web page. If you get to this page too early the links will not be up, but there you will find links you can click on that will allow you to get live real-time audio (occasionally video) and text play by play coverage of most of the important games in the country for nothing or for, depending on the option chosen, less than $2.50 per game. You should at least be able to get the text play by play for most games for free.
I followed the Mississippi Stat vs Florida game for free at Gameplan, watching the real-time text play by play, without plugging in any audio or video, and it was a real thrill, not having to listen to the audio or the video in a way made it even more fun. No wear and tear on the eyes or on the ears, this graphic showed a brown football advancing here and there on a green field as the position of the ball changed, I kid you not it was tremendous!
How Have Your Pet Teams Been Doing?
You might have been attempting to use the psychic powers of your mind to achieve an outcome, you might have been giving speeches, making phone calls, sending out emails and letters pontificating on strategy so as to enable you to take credit for a victory, you might have been gambling with real or paper money, whatever, it is important to be able in retrospective look at how well your pet teams have done not just in terms of the score of the game but also historically in terms of how they have been doing against the point spread. That way, for example, if you had been attempting to telekinetically or through strategic advice push a team to victory and it lost by only 57 points even though it was a 58 point underdog you would have something to boast about. You ccan find a history of how teams have fared against the point spread at a site that is hard to find if you look for such a site using a search engine, at http://www.goldsheet.com/05cfblog.php.
Player Height Weight Equivalents
How much would players weigh if they were proportionately built the same and were average height? How tall and heavy would they be if they were female? What kind of woman would you have to cross an average man with to produce a male offspring of the player's height and weight? Find out at http://www.angelfire.com/ma/vincemoon/htwtequivs.htm.
@2005 David Virgil Hobbs
How to Have Fun Following College Football While Spending Little or No Money
You might have an interest in gambling on sports, or You might be a purist (sort of like me) who considers gambling on sports impure, but either way you have to learn some things if you want to get a high level of enjoyment out of every minute you put into following college football while in the process spending zero or just a little money.
One of the first problems you would face is finding the statistics relevant to the game you are following. You might be a gambler, you might be simulating gambling with make-believe money, or you might just be into pontificating re what strategy a team should follow if it is going to pull off a stunning upset. Such pontification is a high level of fan-hood found in those amongst fan-dom who are too pure for gambling.
Whatever the basis of your interest, if you were to plunge into Google searches using key words such as college football stats you would probably end up expending alot of time and energy finding the info and then putting together the info for each of the the two teams playing each other, while this info was right under your nose, all put together for you for every game, if you just knew where to look.
Hints: when looking for statistical info related to an event, look for info the way a gambler would look for it, look for sites that cater to gamblers who gamble on such events, nothing motivates like money. And count on the media already having done a good job putting together the stat info re the teams and players in a given event.
Fox, Sportsnetwork (www.bettersreport.com), and USA Today (links to games covered pages) all give the odds for the college football games, and also give tons of stats for both teams in a given game, all brought together in one table on one page.
If you had the time could probably find some nuggets of info that big time websites did not show on their game preview stats summary pages, such would admittedly give you an edge over the masses perusing the big websites, yet still, (USC Notre Dame example pages) Fox, Sportsnetwork, and USA Today all do a better job of pulling such stats together for any of hundreds of games, than you could do for one game, even if you were talent, and skilled and spent several hours on that one game.
The wise course of action would be to first go to the game preview pages at the big websites, then formulate a strategy or a theory, and then use search engines to find info relevant to your strategy/theory, thereby getting an edge on the typical spectator.
Which Games Should I Follow?
A fundamental question is, there are hundreds of games, which one should I follow? The ideal schedule would tell you the ranks of both teams involved in a game, however the best schedules I could find, such as the ESPN schedule, show the rank of a team only if the team ranks in the top 25. This burdens me with the onerous task of researching the ranks of the teams for which the ranks of the teams are not given. It would be a major step forward for mankind, if there were a schedule giving the ranks of teams even if they are not in the top 25. America, where is your common sense? Or is there some alleged, allegedly clever, known-only-MBAs hidden financial reason for such obfuscation? Thus you are still left with looking at ranks of teams, if you want to be thorough and perfectionist. Contact me at this blog or at vincemoon@rcn.com if you know where the schedule shows the ranks of all the teams involved.
Rank of Teams
If you tried to use the search engines to find ranks of teams, you would probably end up wasting plenty of time and energy going to dead links, being referred to some college-whiz-kid's rankings for three years ago, finding rankings that are a problem because they are in a gif or jpeg image and are not text, finding rankings re which who knows how seriously you should take them, plodding through half-assed lists of ranking authorities, lists that, annoyingly, treat a flea of an authority or web page as equal to a lion of an authority or web page. The best webpage by far for college rankings is at http://www.mratings.com/cf/compare.htm. There you can find, for free without paying a penny, the rankings for 119 different teams, by 95 different authorities, all in one HTML table, all together with the mean the median and the standard deviation for all 95 authorities in total, all for free--beyond belief but I kid you not! If you found the mratings.com page after stumbling around adding all kinds of lesser pages to your favorites folder, you would probably be tempted to send the links to these other pages to the trash bin, or worse, if possible, even somehow burn them!
Following the Game live/Real-time
An important part of being a fan who is efficient in terms of enjoyment/minute-spent and enjoyment/dollar-spent is following the game in a real-time play by play basis for free or on the cheap somehow. You have been spending six hours a day, telepathically attempting to catapult some obscure underdog over the top, the way Lee Harvey Oswald used to attempt to move the flame of a candle around through the telekinetic power of his mind. Now you are so psyched up that you would pass up a million bucks just to be able to follow the game on a play by play basis. You want to follow the game for free or on the cheap. But none of the free TV or radio stations in your area cover the game, and you would have to subscribe to the new Hyper-Mega-Ultra Satellite TV service at only $$$ 399.99 per month if you wanted to watch the game on TV. What do you do? Just head for the Yahoo Gameplan web page. If you get to this page too early the links will not be up, but there you will find links you can click on that will allow you to get live real-time audio (occasionally video) and text play by play coverage of most of the important games in the country for nothing or for, depending on the option chosen, less than $2.50 per game. You should at least be able to get the text play by play for most games for free.
I followed the Mississippi Stat vs Florida game for free at Gameplan, watching the real-time text play by play, without plugging in any audio or video, and it was a real thrill, not having to listen to the audio or the video in a way made it even more fun. No wear and tear on the eyes or on the ears, this graphic showed a brown football advancing here and there on a green field as the position of the ball changed, I kid you not it was tremendous!
How Have Your Pet Teams Been Doing?
You might have been attempting to use the psychic powers of your mind to achieve an outcome, you might have been giving speeches, making phone calls, sending out emails and letters pontificating on strategy so as to enable you to take credit for a victory, you might have been gambling with real or paper money, whatever, it is important to be able in retrospective look at how well your pet teams have done not just in terms of the score of the game but also historically in terms of how they have been doing against the point spread. That way, for example, if you had been attempting to telekinetically or through strategic advice push a team to victory and it lost by only 57 points even though it was a 58 point underdog you would have something to boast about. You ccan find a history of how teams have fared against the point spread at a site that is hard to find if you look for such a site using a search engine, at http://www.goldsheet.com/05cfblog.php.
Player Height Weight Equivalents
How much would players weigh if they were proportionately built the same and were average height? How tall and heavy would they be if they were female? What kind of woman would you have to cross an average man with to produce a male offspring of the player's height and weight? Find out at http://www.angelfire.com/ma/vincemoon/htwtequivs.htm.
@2005 David Virgil Hobbs
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