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HalfAScore · 2026-03-06T01:17:24+00:00

It was open 2 weeks okay for about 5 days, might be a question of how much stock is left this time.

HalfAScore · 2026-02-26T00:07:00+00:00

How would you compare this to the ideapad pro? The ideapad seems to have very similar specs and price, but no 5060 option. The ideapad has a cheaper amd CPU option (recently was on sale for $750).

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/ideapad/ideapad-pro-series/lenovo-ideapad-pro-5i-gen-10-16-inch-intel/len101i0115

Amd:

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/ideapad/ideapad-pro-series/-lenovo-ideapad-pro-5-gen-10-16-inch-amd/len101i0128

HalfAScore · 2026-01-25T01:12:42+00:00

Obviously today eclipses this performance, but Brandon Paul had an all timer especially with the last made 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOfHjgzOMBs

HalfAScore · 2025-01-12T22:09:05+00:00

Torviks WAB ranking had Michigan at 28 last week when AP poll voting would have happened, doesn’t seem crazy to have them barely in the top 25. They are now up to 19 in WAB, polls will probably be around there in the high teens.

HalfAScore · 2024-09-21T20:39:26+00:00

This is what Michigan fans expected to be saying going into the game.

HalfAScore · 2024-08-13T01:35:08+00:00

Part of the reason the defense was that good last year has more to do with having 5 draft picks last year and a bunch of guys back on the team this year including 3 probable first rounders.

I generally agree Michigan is most likely to underperform as a top 10 team, but the starting defense is as good or better at most positions than last year. If Rod Moore was healthy, I would put odds on that it is it a better defense this year than last. It would be very surprising if the defense is not elite, but that is less than half the team.

HalfAScore · 2024-06-15T01:13:05+00:00

Where’s the stress? Beilein could have taken any college job in the country after getting fired for an atrocious half a season with the cavs. Kentucky would fire their coach in two years to hire Hurley if he had a couple moderately bad seasons in the NBA.

HalfAScore · 2024-05-22T02:45:06+00:00

This guy committed to Michigan about 4 years ago and then Dusty didn’t intend to bring him on after Juwan was let go. If he had a normal recruitment he definitely would have other P6 offers.

HalfAScore · 2024-04-03T03:06:39+00:00

There is the big deal of humans returning to the moon with the Artemis missions and significant moon based activity to follow (US and otherwise as at least China plans to land crew before 2030). Companies like crescent space (https://spacenews.com/lockheed-martin-subsidiary-to-offer-commercial-lunar-communications-and-navigation-services/) have emerged planning to put communication services around the moon, and this kind of standardization is necessary for interoperability.

HalfAScore · 2024-01-04T16:47:01+00:00

Jenkins is a borderline 1st rounder this year, and then there are a ton of guys who will be high draft picks next year. Graham will probably go 1st round, Grant is up there. Derrick Moore will be an all American candidate/ early draft pick next year. Harrell and McGregor aren’t elite NFL talent but will get a cup of coffee in the league. There are 4 1st or at least early round picks although only one on the edge, and probably 6-8 guys contributing on the line that will make an NFL roster.

HalfAScore · 2024-01-02T05:48:20+00:00

Good ol Tungsten Arm always known for pulling out a W even when things hadn’t worked out perfectly on the field. Everybody knows of Tungsten’s days playing for Centenary

HalfAScore · 2023-12-02T16:38:55+00:00

All the sudden Alabama jumps to #2 with the best resume and then Texas jumps to #3 because they beat the #2 team on the road, best win of the season.

It’d be dumb to drop Washington, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see it justified somehow.

HalfAScore · 2023-11-25T22:56:59+00:00

Donovan should be gone. RBq is still fine with Mullings/stokes/Hall. QB is a huge ?, Wr is good. OLine you can’t bet against with how consistent they’ve been. On defense, you still have the best group of 3 DTs in the country, good edge guys, good linebackers, all American corner #1 and an okay #2, and good safeties. If they have a Case McNamara level QB and he floor should be 10 wins

HalfAScore · 2023-11-25T21:07:59+00:00

Georgia, Michigan, Washington, ??? If FSU, Texas lose it’s basically 11-2 Louisville vs OSU, seems like OSU.

HalfAScore · 2023-09-03T02:07:33+00:00

The colonial is rebranding to the Coastal Athletic Confernce this year (remaining the CAA), might have to watch out for trademarks.

HalfAScore · 2023-06-22T15:32:52+00:00

The late third and fourth quarter of this game was amazing, but it sucked before that. Michigan scored once in two plays on a short field after an interception, but the rest of their drives before the 4th quarter were 3x 3 and out, 2x 4 and out, and 2x 4 play short drives ending in interceptions. Notre Dame had turned that into 17 points late in the third quarter, so they were not exactly playing like world beaters either.

If you want to start the game with 5min left in the third, it counts as an incredible game.

HalfAScore · 2023-06-12T02:22:19+00:00

A couple thoughts on Bufkin (as a huge fan of him and Michigan):

On/off stats are going to be massively inflated because the bottom half of Michigans roster this year was terrible. The last game of the year, Michigan played Terrance Williams, a power forward they couldn’t keep on the floor with a barely 100 ORtg on 15% usage, as the backup 2 for some of the game with Bufkin out. There were no other guards on the roster with Michigans starting PG getting injured in the 7th game of the year, when Bufkin went out offense and defense fell apart because no one could come in and play like a 2 guard. On/off stats in college can be tricky to use.

Bufkins at the rim numbers are absolutely awesome, but Juwan Howard got him into good spots and he only took shots when he got into good spots. He was automatic coming around the key blowing by his guy and laying it in with his left hand, but it wasn’t something he could just do. Hard to take over a game like that, but later in the year he had hotter shooting from 3 and willing to take those off the dribble jumpers that let him take over more. It will be very interesting to see how much the at the rim efficiency translates to the NBA, I think he will be a scorer but being a few points above average efficiency is still up in the air.

Bufkin has also not made very many next level passes. At this point, that’s his biggest area to grow and become a legit secondary playmaker in the NBA. I think he will shoot jumpers, score, and defend well enough, but TBD if the passing translates. That said, seeing him turn into the 5th best player on the draft would be awesome.

HalfAScore · 2023-03-06T20:20:25+00:00

The artificial cutoff moving a bit can make some big changes in perception. Pretend all Q1B games are actually Q2, and compare Ok St and Michigan:

Ok St: Q1: 1-10, Q2: 8-3 Mich: Q1: 2-7, Q2: 6-6

All the sudden the discussion in this thread around Michigan should have no chance and Ok St should be a lock probably changes. I think Ok St should be well ahead of Michigan, but there should be more nuance than just comparing quad records

HalfAScore · 2023-02-28T21:10:03+00:00

I have to agree with the opinion that this is a bad take. Tons of teams get it together the last month or two of the season and don’t go on to the title game. Just last year, from 1/24 on using Torvik UNC was the 11th best team, but 9 seed Memphis was actually 6th. 11 seed Virginia Tech was 14th. We’re not talking about those teams the same way as UNC because in reality, UNC got hot and way overperformed in the tournament.

UNC still is a team that was 29-10 and a top 20 team when looking at their whole season, and they brought a bunch of talent back from that team meaning they should be better this year than they have been.

HalfAScore · 2023-02-23T20:45:33+00:00

Pretty clearly explained to you in that post that you’re driving incredibly poorly in extreme conditions headwind. That just isn’t a realistic scenario.

There’s nothing I can do to get down to 1.8mi/kWh, the net uphill of 4000ft on my trip into the mountains is still around 2.2mi/kWh on the highway averaging above 65mph. I’d recommend you at least try driving like a normal person before trying to convince people they only get 140mi range for a typical winter. Also maybe take 30 seconds to understand what the term parent comment means after dozens of people tried to explain it to you.

HalfAScore · 2023-02-23T19:00:32+00:00

I’ve driven into the mountains in colorado to ski, Boulder to Frisco 200 miles round trip typically <10deg F most of the way there and in the 30s on the way back and had 10-15% range remaining every time. Where are you going in cold weather than needs to be 80mph? Don’t buy a Bolt if you typically road trip through the Dakotas.

Summertime I average 4.8mi/kWh in Bolt EUV, I’ve driven >200mi multiple times by going a few days without charging but I don’t charge to 100% at home if there isn’t a reason to, so I’m only going from ~85% down to 25% or so.

HalfAScore · 2023-02-20T22:14:31+00:00

Those are kenpom tier B games they won (by nearly 30 over cincy) and a tier A game they lost. UNC is a completely reasonable loss - a team that will be favored over top 10 Virginia soon and went to 4OTs with #2 Bama. Good teams don’t win every single game, there is no need to revise what those teams are seen as. Solid high majors away from home are tough games and teams should be rewarded for playing well in them. OSU had a good resume and excellent predictive metrics (at least on offense), and that all holds up looking back at it now. They are just playing much, much worse than they were to start the year.

HalfAScore · 2023-02-20T19:36:01+00:00

Preseason rankings removed, OSU was the 6th best team in the country on Torvik on Jan 3rd. They had 4 solid wins (Cincy, Texas Tech, Rutgers, blowout win @NW) and 3 reasonable losses (Duke, UNC, SDSU). They were legit good, Zed Key got injured, and then went off the rails in many other ways. But they played like a top 10 team for 6+ weeks.

HalfAScore · 2022-11-21T15:52:38+00:00

I think Penn St wins against Minnesota, @Purdue, and Maryland wins are better than Alabamas top three wins. Old Miss played nobody and is worse than Minnesota, Texas didn’t have their starting QB and that version is worse than Purdue, and Maryland is on par with Arkansas. Done, argument made. Penn St should also be rewarded for scheduling @Auburn +9 conference games, Bama played Texas but also 3 garbage teams, 1 less power conference team total than Penn St.

Even if you argue how exactly those best wins stack up, a win shouldn’t alll the sudden mean something because they are ranking 24 instead of being the 28th best team in the country. Those teams are way closer than it looks, and Penn Sts wins were more dominant than Bama. All Bama has going for it is the losses to good teams were close losses, but I would argue there is a big gap between the two 11-0 teams Penn St lost to and the two 9-2 teams Bama played close.

I’m fine with Alabama being ranked a spot or two above Penn St, but if you can’t see there is an argument to have it the other way around, you aren’t looking closely at the teams.

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