I am going to write a three part post-Athens’ New Years Classic article. I am unofficially titling the article, “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.” Today is the first part–The Good. You will see that these mirror NYC in many ways, but not completely. Brant Callaway and I compiled stats and together came up with a ranking of the …
ANYC Predictions, Part 2
For Part 1, Read here. The pre-bracketed tournaments take on a weird form. You always have a team get an early loss and feast on easy teams that lost and gradually increase the competition level. Then you have another team do well all day, get a loss, and then lose immediately. To me, this is the weakness of the pre-bracketed …
Around the Horn–Athens New Year’s Classic Questions
In what I think is the beginning of the season, the Georgia event always has great surprises and is one of the better days of the year. I asked some people what their impressions were. I actually emailed ten people and determined that the first four to respond would be included in the competition. I got three responses from quizmasters …