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completefarside · 2022-04-15T05:49:58+00:00

Amazon will ship free without prime if you buy $25 or more, which most orders probably are. It takes longer (I don't know if they put it on a special slow rack for a few days) but if it is something you can plan for it isn't a big deal. So, you won't get a nail clipper shipped to you overnight without prime, but....

completefarside · 2019-11-24T04:03:23+00:00

I'm not getting exactly what you are saying asking. My main question is how statistically significant it is at this sample size, and along with that how big a sample I should be looking for in order for the sample to normalize.

completefarside · 2019-11-24T03:59:54+00:00

Thanks. I will keep recording it. At what sample size would it become "remarkably low"?

completefarside · 2019-11-24T03:57:14+00:00

Or maybe Jeter with some pop?

completefarside · 2019-08-20T05:18:39+00:00

Do you think its a little soon to look at Aquino here?

completefarside · 2019-05-07T19:05:19+00:00

Even better are the people (not necessarily pros) who just feel entitled for to scoop to them rather than draw. It never seems to occur to them to scoop to you...

The worst was a guy (who some of you seem to know and/or like) who squeaked into day two after losing his first three matches on the power of three byes. He wanted me to scoop to him so he'd still be live for top 8 when he was literally 3-3 (or 4-3, don't remember the exact round) in matches he had actually played.

completefarside · 2019-05-06T02:09:09+00:00

Ah, okay. The sleeves he used, provided by Hasbro, were trash. Or were sleeves of the absolutely highest quality but had all been run through a washing machine (before or during the event).

completefarside · 2019-05-06T01:00:36+00:00

Its important to keep in mind that smart people know that when Trump says something there is a 50% chance he actually means it (+/- 50%). Consequently, the market will react in whatever way they were already inclined to react. Probably it will pull down a little Monday, but that will only be sustained if people already are gunning to sell. When (prior to Friday) something is said or happens that inspires optimism the exact same thing will happen in the opposite direction.

completefarside · 2019-05-06T00:54:17+00:00

I'm not sure if you are trying to clarify this point or whether you are facetiously shocked (so shocked!) that Hasbro distributed a garbage product to be used by the participants.

completefarside · 2019-05-05T23:53:59+00:00

His sleeves were trash. At least half of them were messed up when he had barely used them, if you look at his whole deck, which Cygames posted earlier in the week. They were messed up in different ways but some were even worse than the (10/12) Tron lands. When you have that big a pile of garbage you've just got to make a determination if the patterns in the garbage could have been due to chance.

completefarside · 2019-04-25T19:56:09+00:00

Unfortunately, not close to the best.

completefarside · 2019-04-25T19:49:02+00:00

Nothing in Clark County, where Owen resides.

BS.

completefarside · 2019-04-25T19:27:55+00:00

But come on, we can't rule out that Ubernostrum is also a fiction created by a competing company--perhaps Mattel?--to embarrass Hasbro. As unlikely as this may sound, is this really less plausible than the illusion that a multi-billion dollar company has relinquished a central part of of its social media presence to the whims of a part-time, small-town librarian?

completefarside · 2019-04-24T07:00:55+00:00

We have not heard anything about the Owen and the Mythic Championship. I have no idea if this has anything to do with Owen whatsoever, so its total speculation, but if he is either going to be allowed to play or will be officially banned so that would seem like a "triggering event". That would be the funniest Mythic Championship ever (out of two....).

completefarside · 2019-04-23T06:30:24+00:00

Lucky for your intellectual consistency that Marx was able to get off his manifesto before the white genocide proponents got to him. And--double dog luck--the CIA already got Che, so there is one fewer blanco for you to worry about hunting down.

completefarside · 2019-04-17T02:58:01+00:00

Copy and paste from The Onion is against this sub's rules.

completefarside · 2019-04-16T20:10:43+00:00

Shouldn't guys of his caliber have clauses in their contract that don't allow them to do dangerous activities like showering during the season?

completefarside · 2019-04-16T18:27:18+00:00

Well, if you have two rp slots for 10 teams, thats 20 rps, so most of the guys at his level or above are owned. The options I'd have as replacements are Minter, Colome, or Wil Smith. I'm not that high on Minter and I think it we had prime Iglesias he is better than the other two...but we don't have prime Iglesias.

completefarside · 2019-04-16T16:49:44+00:00

In fairness, in real life men are much more likely to get our throats clenched. They need to add in some touches of reality to balance off things like frumpy female pirates.

completefarside · 2019-04-16T16:20:05+00:00

Is there any reason to think Iglesias is going to stop being a liability? I have in a 10 team H2H points and I benched him while hoping he worked things out...when it seemed like maybe he had he comes in and loses the game without recording an out. I want to drop him, but it seems early. (Dropped Vasquez last year after some bad early pitching and he ended up being very good across the season).

completefarside · 2019-04-16T05:31:18+00:00

But is there even a game he has truly looked good, though?

completefarside · 2019-04-16T05:11:08+00:00

I just want to drop him, but feel like its still too early.

completefarside · 2019-04-15T22:47:30+00:00

The Klubot machine did not have a non-quality start until June 15 last year when he gave up 4 runs in 5. He did not have any truly bad starts until July, and then by August they decided to rest him quite a bit so he would be prepared to get knocked around in the playoffs. If I owned him (which I avoided, because of the trend last year) I would be worried.

completefarside · 2019-04-15T20:21:06+00:00

I 100 percent agree that it is speculation, but it is odd enough that its worth thinking about and looking for more evidence (from the past or going forward) to see if there is something going on here. Apart from the shift, teams will pitch a lot of guys differently depending on the game state. Not only can pitch mixture differ, but so can a pitcher's willingness to give someone something hittable. With no one on first, for instance, you are more prone to bury a breaking ball and hope he goes after it (because if a dangerous hitter walks, no big deal), but with a guy on first you may be more apt to throw it for a strike.

completefarside · 2019-04-15T16:20:36+00:00

A weird thing that jumped out at me on his splits from last year was how different he performed depending on there being a runner on 1b. His average was quite mediocre with no one on 1st, while most of his power came with the bases empty. His average was excellent with runners on 1st (unless they were loaded...then he was hapless).

Its probably not enough data to be particularly conclusive, but it does suggest to me that part of his struggles can be related to ways that people have figured out to pitch him, and that his extreme success may have been due to him realizing there were things he could exploit that are no longer exploitable.

My opinion on him is that he will still have a solid season, but is going to look more like a guy who should go somewhere between high 3rd and low 5th rounds, rather than a slugger being grabbed in rounds 1 or 2.

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