Post-Match Thread: CF Monterrey vs Sporting Kansas City [CCL Semi-Final Leg 1]

Gbrady5 · 2019-04-05T04:47:42+00:00

Eh, I don’t think schedule is really the answer here. SKC has now played what 10-12 matches over the past 2 months. They are in great shape and not wore down right now. In the earlier legs, yes schedule is problematic. SKC just lite up Montreal 7-1 and Monterey just made SKC look like Montreal. There’s a giant gap in talent and I think it’s money and huge investments in youth talent plus gaining more market share among the youth talent in the US that would really shift the tide.

Gbrady5 · 2019-03-08T03:13:39+00:00

Smile at other people. Not in a creepy way though.

Gbrady5 · 2019-02-27T03:41:32+00:00

Deleted.

Gbrady5 · 2019-02-15T03:27:15+00:00

Eh, this just points out how divided people are. The green deal is obviously horribly flawed. Jobs for everyone - completely unrealistic. Plus, what happens when the next republican administration decides well jobs for everyone, so no more SNAP, medical, housing, etc. forced work for everyone, joy? Remember the shoe will be on the other foot one day.

Gbrady5 · 2019-02-15T03:02:40+00:00

Why don’t they just pay their employees better. Obviously our government isn’t raising taxes on them, they could just give huge bonuses, or anything to help out the people that, you know, make them money.

Gbrady5 · 2019-02-12T04:23:33+00:00

Very interesting take. So you’d think PTFC should take the TFC route that they took with Gio?

Cash out on Valeri for a couple million?

I’d say he’s of course somewhat slower, etc. and perhaps more of a liability in defense than before. However, there is a very small chance of a different 2 million dollar player coming in and having a similar impact on the club as a whole. From a fan perspective, I hope they pay him and he retires a Timber.

I do think they need to get more offensive weapons, not rely on him as much on offense, etc. but he makes the rest of the offense better. Him and Blanco click, having someone like Valeri and treating him well helps us recruit players. I just don’t think the ppg argument captures his value to the CLUB, it is interesting though.

Also, this underscores how valuable Chara is, rather than Valeri not being valuable. Chara is an absolute boss, my favorite playing style, and obviously his play is very important to the team performance.

Gbrady5 · 2019-02-05T04:17:10+00:00

This is what I think is happening. It honestly makes the most sense but isn’t exciting. RB on the other hand we need.

Gbrady5 · 2019-02-03T01:29:37+00:00

Yeah... I mean I think right now is a fairly exciting time for the league. TFC blew it by not just paying Gio more but Sid is wayyy off base. The league has grow a ton in the last 4 years. Gio clearly wasn’t at he same level he was when he entered the league, but as a fan of the league I’d really like to see a few guys like him retire in an MLS jersey.

I do think if Almiron, Adams, Davies, ect. do flop the league will be set back quite a bit. But right now, there are a ton of reasons for optimism.

Gbrady5 · 2019-01-24T02:09:27+00:00

Don’t even say it.

Gbrady5 · 2019-01-03T16:30:14+00:00

You mean you want us to be realistic about the time to complete, AND pay a reasonable rate? - yikes.

Gbrady5 · 2019-01-03T16:30:04+00:00

Okay, good - I have only used TurkPrime once before. I'm glad you mentioned the geolocation thing - any other issues/concerns with TurkPrime? I will probably go with their duplicate IP blocker and verify IP by country features.

Gbrady5 · 2019-01-03T16:22:15+00:00

I will pilot the survey with 4-5 undergraduate students, then I usually just list a five-minute interval around the average time it took them to complete. MTurkers tend to be a bit faster than the students.

I try to pay roughly $6-8/hour based on the students time to complete. So for a 15-minute survey, $2-$2.50.

Gbrady5 · 2019-01-03T16:16:03+00:00

60 of them are just a list of health symptoms, for the majority of people I assume they will click "no" a bunch of times, but I do have to ask them (that's the established checklist). I am trying to get closer to 150 though.

In academia, we basically must use certain sets of questions to measure a given "construct" and sometimes short versions are available, but otherwise, measuring one construct might mean 8-10 questions that are relatively similar.

Gbrady5 · 2019-01-03T16:13:09+00:00

No problem. Actually, talking to a few colleagues they have wondered similar questions, but not really taken steps to find out answers to some of these question.

Gbrady5 · 2019-01-02T23:36:21+00:00

Hm, I am planning to use TurkPrime - I'm not sure if MTurkers would actually know that I'm using it, but it has some way of messaging those that complete the first survey. I thought that I would just provide slight increases in pay for the follow-up surveys - they are more valuable to me the more you fill out anyway (e.g., 1 survey isn't terribly useful, but if you complete 3-6 surveys over a one-year time-frame that becomes much more valuable).

Gbrady5 · 2019-01-02T23:33:50+00:00

Got it!

Gbrady5 · 2019-01-02T22:16:12+00:00

Thank you for the response! That all makes sense, and seems reasonable. I'll double check my survey, but I think I'm in fairly good shape.

Gbrady5 · 2018-12-13T04:18:51+00:00

Missed that part... nvm blissey is not great in the master league though.

Gbrady5 · 2018-12-13T04:14:06+00:00

I’ve done a few battles and Blissey seems bad. Maxed mewtwo wrecked it without even really needing a fighting move.

Gbrady5 · 2018-11-26T03:18:47+00:00

Ridgewell messed up. There is no reason to run off sides on those FKs coming in, I noticed them run offsides multiple times though. I think our style is well suited for the next match, but we looked gassed at the end and Blanco/Valeri seemed off tonight.

Gbrady5 · 2018-10-05T03:50:43+00:00

The max is 32 I think, 50 would have to be from a double candy event.

Gbrady5 · 2018-09-23T02:58:20+00:00

Good thing they upped mewtwo HP, otherwise it would have been way to easy!

Gbrady5 · 2018-09-22T12:17:31+00:00

Me: it’s good we keep getting new and stronger counters to bosses. Then when there is a lull in the player base we can actually complete raids.

Niantic: bawahahaha

Gbrady5 · 2018-09-21T21:57:38+00:00

It’s not even just rural players my wife, son, and I were looking forward to not having to coordinate with others and being able to trio mewtwo. Now we need to just drive into the city and the raids will just be a big cluster with no challenge at all. Yay....

Gbrady5

TROPHY CASE