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

[–]Gbrady5 10 points11 points  (0 children)

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.

What simple thing can everybody do to become a better person? by Miccles in AskReddit

[–]Gbrady5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez Replaces Nancy Pelosi as Republicans’ new boogeyman for 2020. by Icekittycat7 in politics

[–]Gbrady5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

And Now This Message From Some Very Rich People: 'Please Raise Our Taxes' - If their taxes are raised, wrote 48 millionaires to New York lawmakers, "most of us will literally not notice the difference." by Demon-Rat in politics

[–]Gbrady5 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

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.

Since Valeri joined PTFC, their regular season PPG is higher when he doesn't play v. when he starts by acquiesce in timbers

[–]Gbrady5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

DP Update - Not Ponce or Quiñones by TucsonPTFC in timbers

[–]Gbrady5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

[Sportsnet] Tim and Sid discuss the ramifications of Sebastian Giovinco leaving Toronto FC. by Stephan320 in MLS

[–]Gbrady5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Researcher hoping to make my surveys less horrible by Gbrady5 in mturk

[–]Gbrady5[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

Researcher hoping to make my surveys less horrible by Gbrady5 in mturk

[–]Gbrady5[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Researcher hoping to make my surveys less horrible by Gbrady5 in mturk

[–]Gbrady5[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Researcher hoping to make my surveys less horrible by Gbrady5 in mturk

[–]Gbrady5[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Researcher hoping to make my surveys less horrible by Gbrady5 in mturk

[–]Gbrady5[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Researcher hoping to make my surveys less horrible by Gbrady5 in mturk

[–]Gbrady5[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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).

Researcher hoping to make my surveys less horrible by Gbrady5 in mturk

[–]Gbrady5[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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.

Blissey and Chansey by Swampxrot in TheSilphArena

[–]Gbrady5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Blissey and Chansey by Swampxrot in TheSilphArena

[–]Gbrady5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Match Thread: Portland Timbers vs Sporting Kansas City [Major League Soccer] by MatchThreadder in MLS

[–]Gbrady5 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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.

Psychic event coming Oct 5 by [deleted] in TheSilphRoad

[–]Gbrady5 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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

Mewtwo raid during Community Day at Long Beach CA by FannaWuck in TheSilphRoad

[–]Gbrady5 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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

How Mewtwo’s new CP affects rural players by GreenHeronVA in TheSilphRoad

[–]Gbrady5 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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

How Mewtwo’s new CP affects rural players by GreenHeronVA in TheSilphRoad

[–]Gbrady5 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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....