Save the Shield! A Vanderbilt sports blog

From now on I’ll try to warn you about posts that are only interesting to the stats geek community.
I’ve been thinking about how to improve my estimation of Vanderbilt’s winning probability for remaining games.   As I dig deeper in some of the computer rankings, I think the Sagarins provide the closest thing to the data [...]

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Three thoughts I want to get down before I post some blog exchange Q&A:

I want to state again how glad I am that Star & Stripe is back in action, and especially how much I appreciate their Naval Intelligence press review.   From the amount of time that they spend finding neat VU-related stuff on the [...]

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I didn’t see any of the game today. I’m glad I had social and freelancing commitments to keep me from watching the carnage.
It’s funny how VandySports was damn near unanimous in its hatred toward Ken Pomeroy three weeks ago for seemingly indicating that we weren’t that great. (”How many Vanderbilt games [...]

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