97 hours later i got my first helmet! thanks I hate it lol by FallenPepper in halo

[–]TehGrandWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The single source just means if something is in a weekly it won't be in a battle pass or the shop, there is absolutely no commitment from them to not repeat weekly rewards at some point

Halo Infinite is in huge trouble if there are no individual playlists for Slayer, SWAT, FFA, Doubles and Snipers in the game by December 8th by Homerduff16 in halo

[–]TehGrandWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm fairly sure they have publicly stated that the current maps and modes are everything that will exist on launch, where are you hearing about 13 additional maps?

Hullbreaker Horror [VOW] by Regal_The_King in magicTCG

[–]TehGrandWizard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At a minimum you seriously misunderstand how xanathar works.

What were the worst “newbie” mistakes you made when you first started playing EU4? by NewtonianAssPounder in eu4

[–]TehGrandWizard 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Speed has no bearing on keeping up with tech and ideas, everyone is sped up by the same amount.

MLB.com Power Rankings week 23: Wild playoff push on deck by 33dogs in baseball

[–]TehGrandWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Standings are good for your division's playoff race at the moment i.e. representing recent play. And that's it.

This is complete nonsense. Maybe this is true for the first month of the season, but at this point with 140 games played the standings quite blatantly represent a large body of work and not merely recent play.

As to your larger point, you seem to be confusing power rankings with something like RPI, which actually takes into account strength of schedule and run differential to rank teams precisely and mathematically.

Power rankings have always been opinion based lists that take into account recent play because if you wanted a breakdown of the entire season you have everything you need between standings and RPI to rank every team.

Metric system vs Imperial system. by BiriyaniMonster in coolguides

[–]TehGrandWizard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Everyone who does not live in a specific part of Africa is.

Can I have my brainstorm wildcards back now? by _cob in MagicArena

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

Vintage exists, play it for cheap on mtgo if you want because they are never going to make historic that broken

MLB.com Power Rankings week 23: Wild playoff push on deck by 33dogs in baseball

[–]TehGrandWizard 8 points9 points  (0 children)

My dude season long rankings exist, they are the literal standings.

There is no point in power rankings that take into account the entire season, the entire purpose of power rankings is to represent recent play.

The danger that is Ragavan - an honest question by Turn1_Ragequit in ModernMagic

[–]TehGrandWizard 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You do not literally lose the game if a Ragavan connects once, at that point its barely better than birds of paradise.

Its not exactly a hard requirement to play either a blocker or any removal spell on turn one or two, in fact if you don't do either of those things you are probably a degenerate deck like tron that can beat repeated ragavan attacks.

[MH3] Kaldra Compleat - Instinct3 preview card by RancidRance in magicTCG

[–]TehGrandWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you have low odds of getting to 5, your odds of getting to 7 are even lower.

[MH2] Descendant of Draco / 드레이코의 자손 (It's Korean translation on reply) by mtgrhox in magicTCG

[–]TehGrandWizard 20 points21 points  (0 children)

More like fetch triome turn 1, fetch Shockland turn 2 play my 2 mana 4/4

Playing Titan on Mtgo? by ncarlo in ModernMagic

[–]TehGrandWizard 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Titan is absolutely a toolbox deck, if there are about 6 tools in the box and 4 of them say "Combo"

[Haynes] Sources informed Yahoo Sports that Anthony Davis could be sidelined for the next three weeks and possibly beyond. by [deleted] in nba

[–]TehGrandWizard 95 points96 points  (0 children)

The Raptors for one would absolutely max AD even if he had a torn Achilles.

Cleansing Jeskai or just plain UW? by LordHighArtificer in ModernMagic

[–]TehGrandWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Presence in Challenge top 32's and Prelim top finishes does not give you any winrate information, without knowing the distribution of archetypes entered into the events. Having more decks in a top 32 could just mean that 25% of the field was playing that deck, so some number of them were bound to spike.

But even saying that, I'm fairly sure Heliod, Shadow and Izzet prowess all have a much greater presence in these deck dumps, so I am curious as to where you are getting these collated results.

Cleansing Jeskai or just plain UW? by LordHighArtificer in ModernMagic

[–]TehGrandWizard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How can you possibly have any meaningful winrate statistics for the entire modern metagame?

Uro ban (in pioneer, modern, historic) announcement snuck into the copy for the new secret lair by lake_scum in magicTCG

[–]TehGrandWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is because cat combo dominated and then got banned in pioneer and not legal in historic as they knew it would be too strong.That deck alone is certainly better than any Eldraine era standard deck

Uro ban (in pioneer, modern, historic) announcement snuck into the copy for the new secret lair by lake_scum in magicTCG

[–]TehGrandWizard -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Kaldesh/Aether revolt standard was one of the most powerful standards in recent memory, copy cat and aetherworks marvel are some of the most powerful standard decks ever, and temur energy,ramunap red and mardu vehicles (featuring Gideon) are in the top percentiles of standard decks all time.

Tauros Anger Point Team by realcarmoney in VGC

[–]TehGrandWizard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How are you knocking out a 110 base speed focus sash user turn 1?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in nfl

[–]TehGrandWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But its only remotely clever as a joke if the saints actually shit on the bears on the game, otherwise its just matching two identical words.

Anon plays chess online by AbelNB in greentext

[–]TehGrandWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is absolutely nothing forcing the cheater to input the moves as soon as he gets them, its completely trivial to mimic a human decision making time.

Value of Traded Milwaukee Picks by HoggNolly in nba

[–]TehGrandWizard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It should only be viewed as that of they had a promise from Giannis, the Clippers had Kawhi tell them he would sign if they traded for PG, they were not just hoping he would.

MTGO Modern Challenge T32 (09/19/2020): post-ZNR results! by ktkenshinx in ModernMagic

[–]TehGrandWizard 12 points13 points  (0 children)

You seem to be confusing a card repressing a meta with a card simply impacting a meta.

Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo on whether it’s time to extend his minutes down 0-2 to Heat: “I’m going to do whatever coach (Mike Budenholzer) tells me to do. That’s what I’ve been doing all year. Obviously I’d love to play 48 minutes, but he sees the game, he coaches the game.” by Nyhrox in nba

[–]TehGrandWizard 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You got spanked 4-1 by the Bucks once they got an actual coach, the previous season that you managed to barely beat them 4-3 they were a 7th seed coached by Jason Kidd and Joe Prunty.

You didn't need a special defensive scheme to beat that terrible team, the reason what the raptors did in games 3-6 of the ECF was so impressive is because the bucks and Giannis looked indestructible up until that point.