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Straight from a mathlete....
Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 2:07 pm
by Diggler
If you're bored, here's a mathlete's (lol) take on our team.
http://waynewinston.com/wordpress/?p=364 According to his math:
1) K Love and Gomes are our best players
2) Hollins and Pavlovic are our worst players
3) Sessions is much better than Flynn
Re: Straight from a mathlete....
Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 3:32 pm
by Foye
Cool. Lol.
Nothing really new to me.
Re: Straight from a mathlete....
Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 7:37 pm
by C.lupus
IDK. Any analysis that says Gomes is the second-best player on the team seems flawed to me.
Re: Straight from a mathlete....
Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 10:04 pm
by horaceworthy
This is the guy that used to work for the Mavs, right? Didn't his system have Foye and Bassy in the top 20 for most valuable players last year? Or had he left the Mavs by then?
Re: Straight from a mathlete....
Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 4:56 am
by GopherIt!
mathlete? is that kinda like femistry?
Re: Straight from a mathlete....
Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 5:21 am
by Diggler
Looking at his tables gave me a season-ending brain fracture. Sigma, zScore... Either he's just making stuff up or he's been blessed with some incredible mathletic ability.
Re: Straight from a mathlete....
Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 5:37 am
by jade_hippo
GopherIt! wrote:mathlete? is that kinda like femistry?
oddly enough i got a degree in femistry my sophmore year of college. my intimate knowledge of making girls swoon is second to none! math team was also way harder than any basketball or football game i've ever played, takes way more preperation both physical and menatally, I even broke a finger at a Math meet in Bemiji one year when a monitor fell on me, in addition to my former girlfriend breaking my thumb the next year, she was also a Mathlete.
Re: Straight from a mathlete....
Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 6:15 am
by GopherIt!
lol I didn't even know there was such a thing. I'm just envisioning a mathlete pick up line:
girl: so what do you do for a living?
mathlete: during the day I work with imaginary numbers but at nite I like to work with Pi.
Re: Straight from a mathlete....
Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 6:39 am
by jade_hippo
hey whats your sine?
thats a big calculator you have there
doyou think you could help me intigrate this?
you've got more curves than a triple integral
how about you come over to my house so you can help me solve for my variable
lets get together to see what our common denominator is
i'm not being obtuse, but you're acute girl
I'll take you to your limit if you show me your end behavior
wish i were an integral, so i could be the space under your curves
Re: Straight from a mathlete....
Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 10:12 am
by Calinks
Reminds me of an episode of Sliders. Quinn and company went to this dimension where being smart was like the coolest thing you could be and all the major celebrity's were scientist and crap. Anyway, they had this sport where it was a mix of basketball, a live action board game, and math/other knowledge. You would get the ball, have to solve some equation and then make a play before the other team could lock you down. Quinn's double was pretty much the Michael Jordan of the sport, he was in college but he was already a huge star. He was billboards, commercials, everything .They had "Just think it!" posters and all of that. Pretty entertaining.
Re: Straight from a mathlete....
Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 11:29 am
by hijacktheparade
You just referenced Sliders. Hell yeah.
Re: Straight from a mathlete....
Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 8:26 pm
by Narf
So the "Mathlete" took +/- by itself and declared who was good and who wasn't based on that alone?
Sigh
And yes, I did read the blog. It should have said "these are the lineups that play the best together" instead of "these are the best players".
Re: Straight from a mathlete....
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 3:47 am
by shrink
Calinks wrote:Reminds me of an episode of Sliders.
Those first seasons are great, tongue-in-cheek social commentary.
Sad what it turned into.
Re: Straight from a mathlete....
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 3:49 am
by southern wolf
I miss Sliders. Great show.
Re: Straight from a mathlete....
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 3:57 am
by Esohny
I need to make more classic sci-fi references. For instance, almost any Quantum Leap episode is worth mentioning.
Re: Straight from a mathlete....
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:23 am
by shrink
Have you seen "Men of a Certain Age?" Oh boy.
Re: Straight from a mathlete....
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:50 am
by Calinks
Yea, Sliders was really fun for like what. the first 3 seasons? Then it all went waaaay down hill. It had a great premise and some really great episodes but i fell the hell off. At least the Crying Man stayed around, the only thing that got me through the 5th season. I couldn't stand Mallory.

Re: Straight from a mathlete....
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:53 am
by cpfsf
jade_hippo wrote:my intimate knowledge of making girls swoon is second to non
jade, you put the liar in outlier

Re: Straight from a mathlete....
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 6:52 am
by Breakdown777
jade_hippo wrote:hey whats your sine?
thats a big calculator you have there
doyou think you could help me intigrate this?
you've got more curves than a triple integral
how about you come over to my house so you can help me solve for my variable
lets get together to see what our common denominator is
i'm not being obtuse, but you're acute girl
I'll take you to your limit if you show me your end behavior
wish i were an integral, so i could be the space under your curves
Boing!

Re: Straight from a mathlete....
Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 5:26 am
by jade_hippo
first off... the crying man aint got nothing on me...
secondly, Sliders season 1 is on netflix instant watch. i've been watching it for the last couple days now, that show has actually aged pretty well compared to quantum leap.