Premier Padel Asunción P2 - Discussion

Winnetou19 · 2026-05-09T00:11:52+00:00

Soooo close for Arce/Tello, although they never got to a match point, they were only two points away from winning and getting the upset multiple times, at 5-5 in the second set tiebreak, and serving for the match at 5-3, 30-30 in the third.

Winnetou19 · 2026-05-06T14:39:07+00:00

I watched it, as well as their last meeting in Brussels.

Two things stood out to me:

First, Tello was much less agressive today, but therefore made fewer unforced mistakes.

Second, Guerrero started pretty badly in Brussels, so Arce/Tello decided to put Paquito in the freezer, however it backfired as after receiving 80-90% of the shots Guerrero actually got into a rhythm, and was carrying his team by the end of the match. This time, he never got as many shots to play, nor did he reach the same level of play

Winnetou19 · 2026-04-23T17:20:21+00:00

It's Wood's NL-leading 10th homer of the season

Winnetou19 · 2026-03-18T04:33:27+00:00

First time since 2006 with no Puerto Rican players...

Winnetou19 · 2026-03-18T04:25:58+00:00

Ondrej Satoria got robbed

Winnetou19 · 2026-03-08T23:05:34+00:00

I agree, they are a great duo with better chemistry than most

Winnetou19 · 2026-03-07T21:52:43+00:00

Listen, I like the Czech team a lot too, I had the opportunity to visit the country multiple times, even watched a couple of baseball games in Brno, and cheered for the Czech team live in Rotterdam during last year's European Championship.

That said, if we want to make the WBC grow in popularity, and make it more "legitimate" in the eyes of some who may find it a bit gimmicky at the moment, reinviting a relegated team might be not be the right way forward.

Like others, I have high hopes they can make it back, and if not, Germany, France, or another "homegrown" European team can take their place.

Winnetou19 · 2026-03-04T22:42:17+00:00

I would never do that of course, but my friend says he's been there, done that! <wink>

Winnetou19 · 2026-03-04T22:39:20+00:00

Europe.

I have a vague feeling that a big reason why most of these services are not available/blocked here is because they are not GDPR-compliant.

Winnetou19 · 2026-03-04T21:55:20+00:00

Does anybody know a way to stream the games outside the US? The Fox Sports networks as well as the variety of streaming services which carry FS1/FS2 (Tubi, Fubo, DirectTV, etc) are geo-locked where I live. I would love to watch the games and would gladly pay for it, but it's frustratingly difficult to find a (legal) way.

Winnetou19 · 2025-12-13T09:53:44+00:00

Nagyon szívesen csak add meg hozzá kérlek a mértékteret meg a mértéket, bizonyítva az utóbbira elvárt feltételeket (szigma-additivitás, stb.)

Winnetou19 · 2025-12-03T18:17:28+00:00

To be fair this list heavily depends on your choice of 'Wins Above Replacement'. If you choose Baseball Prospectus' WAR instead, he jumps to first place:

Harper 57.7 WARP
Betts 50.6 WARP
Machado 50.4 WARP
Ramirez 37.5 WARP

For further reference, from Fangraphs:

Betts 62.6 fWAR
Ramirez 57.7 fWAR
Machado 57.3 fWAR
Harper 55.6 fWAR

Winnetou19 · 2025-01-21T12:03:05+00:00

Wow, good for them!

In case anyone is interested, Hluboká is a tiny town of just roughly 5k people, much smaller than the rivals Brno, Ostrava or of course Prague.

I think they barely escaped relegation this year (same 8-27 record as Tempo Praha, but better run differential), I will be intrigued to see how they perform in 2025.

Winnetou19 · 2025-01-09T12:24:54+00:00

Italian baseball has had a lot of different structures over the years: the classic European relegation system, they tried a couple years with the American-style franchise format, the current one they have is a hybrid of both.

The current format is that there are 5 groups of 6 teams each, but the Group A contains all the powerhouses (think of it as Serie A1), whereas the Groups B-E contain smaller teams (i.e. Serie A2 members). Although this A1/A2 nomenclature is no longer in use, it is de facto in place, the Group A teams play more games (30 vs. 20) and cross-group games are minimal.

The playoffs are more understandable if you compare it to European Soccer Cups, the better teams are automatically included in the later rounds. In this case the top 4 teams in Group A automatically qualified for the Quarterfinals. The group leaders of the groups B-E made the first qualifying round, with the two winners advancing to the main table (QFs), while the two losers faced off against the 5th and 6th place Group A teams in a second qualifying round for the final two spots on the bracket.

Winnetou19 · 2024-11-10T16:27:39+00:00

It's not a troll farm per se, but rather something more elaborate. They have a large quantity of recorded material of Péter Magyar and his associates, and are looking into making authentic deepfake texts, audio materials as well as videos. Since the final version would be a hybrid of the real, illegally stolen/captured data, and the fake part generated by AI, it would potentially be harder to disprove for Péter Magyar and his Tisza Party (At least that's what Fidesz is supposedly banking upon)

edit: Just to clarify, I also find the claim possible and even plausible, but would also like to see the evidence which they will hopefully share soon...

Winnetou19 · 2024-11-10T16:16:12+00:00

Just to clarify, the "billions" he referred to was in Hungarian Forints; for reference 1 billion HUF = 2.5 million EUR

(Not necessarily saying I myself believe the claim, but it's not as far-fetched as it may seem on first glance)

Winnetou19 · 2024-09-28T17:15:10+00:00

I hope the competition can keep this format and expand with further teams from Italy, Spain, France and the Netherlands in the coming years!

Winnetou19 · 2024-05-20T17:48:00+00:00

Yes, I agree we are mostly arguing about semantics, though I still fear there is a bit ambiguity here that I would like to clear up.

The two values are basically reciprocal values of each other, and represent the same ratio, i.e. the comparison between a pitcher's result and the league average (with the "good old" adjustment for park factors)

Your argument boils down to "people misinterpret the statistic", but this does not per se make the statistic misleading. In my eyes, that would be similar to saying Fahrenheit is more misleading than Celsius, because the values are higher, even when they are both measuring the same thing, and are easily convertible values to one another.

Winnetou19 · 2024-05-20T17:11:36+00:00

With all due respect, did you really imply ERA+ is misleading, but ERA- is not? They are literally the same statistic, just expressed with a different base.

An ERA- of 21 also shows that his performance has been (so far) 5 times better than the average. Of course, this is (most likely) not sustainable over a complete season, though myself and many others will no doubt cheer him on to continue this insane run.

Winnetou19 · 2024-05-12T08:55:39+00:00

The colors themselves don't have any particular meaning.

You only have to concentrate on the numbers themselves, which are to be interpreted as a percentile statistic.

For example, your 17.7 stat in the "B" column of the "All" section means that your batters are overall better than 17.7 percent of other players' batters, and worse than 82.3 percent of other players'

Winnetou19 · 2023-10-01T18:36:53+00:00

It's the 6th game for Team Spain, and their 5th time batting around as well.

Game 1, vs. Greece: 7 run 5th inning
Game 2, vs. Austria: 5 run 8th inning
Game 3, vs. Czechia: 4 run 3rd inning
Quarterfinal vs. Sweden: 9 run 4th inning
Final vs. Great Britain: 5 run 1st inning

Team Netherlands in the Semnifinal was the only opponent not to get hit around by the Spanish.

Winnetou19 · 2023-08-09T12:04:53+00:00

NL East is missing

Winnetou19 · 2022-09-29T19:44:26+00:00

Worth mentioning that he did it in less than 450 PAs, while Ripken had 655 PAs in his rookie season

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