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    How Much Do You Want Your Team To Bid For Yamamoto?

    That's about 10/250 present value, someone would beat it.
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    CFB 2023 Week 4: A thread for fairly serious CFB fans

    i assume they're checking if there should be time left? pretty clearly in.
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    NESN to offer standalone streaming service for games (IN MARKET)

    Per the terms, appears to be time limited, and exclusively limited to New England (excluding some parts): "Beginning on July 3, 2023 and continuing until July 27, 2023, NESN is offering an initial month of NESN 360 priced at $1 to new customers in Connecticut (excluding Fairfield County)...
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    Celtics vs Heat ECF Redux Discussion Thread

    Per this (https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/MIA/2023_referees.html) it looks like they were 0-5, not 0-10. And that the C's were 5-1, not 7-2. I'm not sure where the discrepancy comes from though. More generally though, MIA all time is 62-51 with Brothers, while BOS is 64-51. And in...
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    Celtics vs Hawks, Round 1 Discussion

    BOS +3.7 ppg offensively vs PHI +3.3 ppg defensively = BOS +0.4 PHI +0.9 ppg offensively vs BOS +2.8 ppg defensively = PHI - 1.9 So Bos 114.6 vs PHI 112.3. There are better versions of this out there though that use pace, etc, this is just quick back-of-the-envelope stuff.
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    Celtics vs Hawks, Round 1 Discussion

    Especially when i corrected your math to show that it should be 122-115.5.
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    Celtics vs Hawks, Round 1 Discussion

    I might be extending my hazy log5 recollections incorrectly, but i think this math undersells it because you need to consider league average. I.e., (when boston has the ball) 118 points allowed for ATL is vs an average offense, so they're about -4 ppg allowed (relative to an NBA average of 114...
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    Mavs give up

    I'd add to this and say the issue here is not so much how they're tanking, but the situation. Tanking is obviously extremely common among non-playoff teams fighting for better draft position, but seeing a team actively tank when a playoff spot is well within reach is jarring. Maybe I'm missing...
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    Mavs give up

    Wouldn't actually fix this case, as long as pick protection exists. Dallas owes it's 1st rounder to the Knicks unless they're top 10, which is why there's really value in getting below OKC & Chicago. edit: and actually, it would be hilarious if the punishment wasn't to take the pick away, but...
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    Lawsuit against the Ivy League

    Don't other conferences set limits on how many scholarships can be awarded? Why is it different if a conference (or the NCAA) is saying "we set the cap at 0" vs "we set the cap at 85" (in the case of FBS football)?
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    MLB sets up local media group, could broadcast 17 teams

    I don't mind the tier breakdown here, but those prices would have me dropping mlb.tv in a heartbeat. As someone out-of-market that doesn't care much about blackouts (and is generally fine with the ~$140/year or whatever I pay now), that's a 350% increase compared to what I pay now for unlimited...
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    2/25 @Canucks

    Marchand was listening. (edit: too slow!)
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    The NHL's Falling Viewership

    On top of the other things mentioned, I also just find ESPN+ to be a horrible experience. Practically the only thing I watch on it is the Bruins, and yet whenever I open it up, it insists on showing me a gigantic list of (men's & women's) college basketball or a slew of other random events that...
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    2022 Asian Leagues: NPB, KBO, CPBL

    Trying to parse the current rules, and curious if I've got this right (or close)-- he's not likely to be eligible to come to MLB freely until he has 9 years of pro experience there; he can be posted before that, but given the international bonus pool restrictions, that seems unlikely to be an...
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    Let's Talk About MLBTV

    I've been having both of these issues. Forcing an app update seems to have fixed the score reversal thing, but I'm still getting "join live" going to the start. Luckily you can fast forward pretty quickly (took me a while to realize-- don't hold down FF, just press it repeatedly until it gets to...
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