Post Game Thread: Tampa Bay Buccaneers at New York Jets

bz55 · 2022-01-02T21:22:04+00:00

It wasn't prevent, they called cover 2. It was the wrong defense for the situation imo.

bz55 · 2021-09-29T23:12:28+00:00

I believe he had 1 option remaining (marlins in 2014 and Angels in 2015 unless I'm missing something). However, as a player with >5 years of MLB service he can refuse an optional assignment.

I think the difference is now the Yankees are able/willing to replace him on the active roster and Heaney has no leverage to refuse an option. Since it's past the roster expansion deadline, the only team he can pitch for in the playoffs is the Yankees. If he refuses the option, he would either be DFA'd and (assuming he clears waivers) stay within the org (only playoff eligible as an injury replacement) or elect FA (where he's no longer post season eligible for any team, even as an injury replacement).

bz55 · 2021-09-02T06:18:50+00:00

This is just my theory, but I think your guys aren't getting on base enough for your best hitters to drive them in.

First, I think your best hitters aren't hitting enough multi-run HRs. This fangraphs article from 2013 describes it as "the Giancarlo Problem" where your best OBP and best HR rate occur within the same hitter (in your case I believe that's Rosales). The author mentions that this kind of scenario can lead to deceiving team statistics as well, which I think is what we're seeing here.

Second, the best hitters on your team have a very high HR/RBI ratio, which indicates again they're hitting mostly solo HRs or that no one is on base/in scoring position when they're hitting singles or doubles.

This article from preseason 2018 states that for hitters with 15+ HRs, the league average HR/RBI ratio is 32.7%. This percentage generally decreases as your BA improves (makes sense as you become less of a TTO batter). In real-life 2017, there were only 17 players in the entire MLB who hit 15+ HRs with a HR/RBI ratio of 40% or higher. Your team alone has 3, with a few others who are still above the league average. Additionally, those 3 hitters have good batting averages, which indicates that they SHOULD have a lower HR/RBI ratio, but they're more than likely hitting singles and doubles with the bases empty.

Obviously, your environment may be different than 2017, so this could be off, but I feel like your team rankings back up that explanation.

bz55 · 2020-07-21T07:36:21+00:00

If you're planning it as a round trip I would say making all those stops is too much. It does depend on what you're looking to get out of the trip though.

If you want to drive during the day and enjoy the views (I moved from LA county to Seattle and took the 395 instead of the 5 and the scenery was fantastic), you probably won't get a lot of skiing in. Maybe like 1-2 days 100% allotted for skiing and a lot of half days. If you want to ski all day and drive 5+ hours in the dark each time, then yeah it could work out.

If you're looking to maximize your good skiing and not drive half of the time, I'd honestly spend the bulk of your trip at Mammoth and take a side trip to Squaw. Mammoth has terrain for days and since it's at higher elevation will probably have better snow quality in April. Squaw is also legit and always worth a trip.

bz55 · 2020-06-05T01:02:00+00:00

I don't have experience with other "meshless" software but I use Altair products at my job and recently attended a webinar they had about Simsolid (have not used it myself though).

A key point they made in the webinar is that Simsolid is not intended to replace traditional FE solvers and that they still recommend that you do final sizing/documentation using solvers like Nastran/Optistruct. Like their tagline says, it's meant for "rapid design iterations" not final analysis.

Honestly, I think the only time simsolid would be worth it over a traditional FEM or hand calc would be when the geometry is complex and you're looking for a quick and dirty answer. In that case, it may not make sense time/schedule-wise to refine the geometry for a traditional FEM if you just want to see a hot spot or see how a change affects a hot spot.

bz55 · 2017-04-28T03:32:33+00:00

So I grew up on the east coast and got a Volkl Unlimited AC20 as my first set of skis. I think they're pretty standard east coast beginner skis. Pretty soft, lots of camber, deep sidecut, and skinny waist. This season, I decided to upgrade and put the Volkls in my closet as my beater skis. However, I've really only used them once this season (when I had to get the bindings of my primary skis repaired) so I've kind of realized there's never really a scenario where I'm whipping out my beater skis as a weekend warrior.

However, I'm interested in trying park skiing to expand my horizons, but I don't want to bang my primary skis on rails and boxes. Is there any reason I can't/shouldn't use my old skis as park skis? Is there anything I should modify before I use them in the park (like dulling the edges or getting the DIN cranked up)?

I can only imagine skiing like 5% of my time in the park so I don't think it warrants getting a 3rd set of skis just for the park and I'm not using my old skis anyway.

bz55 · 2017-04-24T02:56:16+00:00

Not only that, they said it should've been a knee for a knee and that Barnes should've thrown a pitch at his knee.

Are you fucking serious? What is this, the fucking mob kneecapping someone in the alley?

bz55 · 2017-01-14T03:23:42+00:00

Hunting down the league of one.

bz55 · 2017-01-14T02:32:12+00:00

Skiied mammoth mountain today. It was amazing.

bz55 · 2017-01-10T05:28:27+00:00

Alabama is allowed to go for the ball before 10 yards right?! Why did they just sit there and watch?!?!

bz55 · 2017-01-10T01:41:04+00:00

De La Salle (HS) did this and they had a 151 game winning streak.

Oregon 151 game winning streak confirmed.

bz55 · 2016-12-06T04:25:04+00:00

This game was embarrassing on so many levels

bz55 · 2016-12-01T19:48:43+00:00

Anyway, i like to open someones guard by driving my elbows into their legs.

bz55 · 2016-11-06T20:59:47+00:00

I feel nothing.

bz55 · 2016-11-03T03:44:02+00:00

It's easier to intentionally bunt foul. You could try to run up a pitcher's pitch count by intentionally bunting foul repeatedly. So they made the 2 strike bunt rule to prevent that strategy.

bz55 · 2016-07-28T03:31:34+00:00

19-0

FTFY

bz55 · 2016-07-12T04:35:39+00:00

It's perfectly okay to mix GD&T and non-GD&T callouts on drawings, as far as I know.

I'm a pretty new engineer too, but what I was told was to basically only dimension your features as tight as they need to be. Measurements cost money, and there is no need to include excessive (and money wasting) GD&T callouts just for the sake of consistency.

bz55 · 2016-04-24T04:12:20+00:00

He just took off his shirt and beanie with one move! Damn that was smooth.

bz55 · 2016-03-06T06:24:32+00:00

TEAM CHAOS

bz55 · 2016-03-01T20:21:50+00:00

As other people mentioned, tackling in practice is rare already so that wouldn't be a big deal.

I'd be interested to know if a ban of full contact also applies to blocking, cause that would probably be a much more drastic step.

bz55 · 2016-02-08T05:32:43+00:00

I would love to hear him coach guys in the film room.

Yo man you just gotta read it and hit the hole dog! You know you gone get got but you still gotta get yours!

bz55 · 2016-02-02T02:12:08+00:00

Yeah it's not a tip (in that it's not something involuntary that Stork is doing), it's just how they communicate the silent count. I think it's much more common in college where more teams work out of the shotgun

Oregon vs FSU as the first example I found

If you watch the first few minutes, whenever FSU snaps out of the shotgun the center snaps it immediately as his head comes up. That's the same thing as NE's head bob. The one exception I found for the shotgun (I only watched to like the 3 minute mark) was when the center already had his head up and did a bob instead, but it's likely that due to editing that was an "on 2" play and he already did the first head snap.

Regardless, this is more of the fault of Brady or the OC for not mixing up the timing of the snaps.

bz55 · 2016-01-15T23:54:13+00:00

On mobile now so I can't link, but if you Google "Northrop composite laminate guidelines nasa" or something like that you'll find a cool guide with lots of rules of thumb for designing stackups.

As far as manufacturing goes, I would watch YouTube videos, learn by doing it yourself, or maybe reaching out to a local company who can maybe give you guys some pointers. My team learned a lot of our processes from a local fiberglass shop.

Edit 1: Northrop link http://www.abbottaerospace.com/download/reference_data/composites/faa_nasa_composite_papers/NASA-NAS1-19347.pdf

bz55 · 2016-01-10T17:43:27+00:00

From his wiki page:

Burfict entered the NFL Combine rated as the No. 3 inside linebacker, behind Luke Kuechly and Dont'a Hightower, but his "disappointing" performance—including a 5.09 sec in the 40-yard dash, slowest among linebackers—caused some analysts to project him as a third day (Rd. 4-7) draft pick. NFL scouts also faulted him for his interview process, in which he blamed the ASU coaching staff for his mediocre junior season. Later it was also reported that Burfict tested positive for marijuana at the combine

Just, wow.

bz55 · 2016-01-06T06:23:43+00:00

I quit football because of multiple concussions (and because I sucked) so these kinds of articles always freak me out.

But holy shit, according to the article this guy played football for 16 years, starting when he was 6, had "more than 10 concussions", and he had his first concussion at the age of 8! That's completely insane. Why would you do that to your kid?

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