RealGM

Hey there. I'm not exactly Johnny Posts'alot and therefore don't carry enough clout to having something catch on. I personally would get a lot of value from a thread where people suggest good games to watch. The posts would specifically not give away the outcome of games.

Just a little background so you can pity me. I'm a nets fan and have watched 60+ nets losses (including a particularly painful loss at the hands of Taj Gibson no less). I have International League Pass Broadband and am able to watch any game, however I have limited time and download capacity (I live in australia, the land of monthly download limits). It's pretty lame to watch the Nets get blown out only to download a game and watch another team get blown out.

So. If any mods or cool kids want to pick up this idea and run with it in General Discussion (or somewhere more relevant) that would be great.

http://www.shouldiwatch.com/

If you want to know if the game's worth watching, just set your "pain threshold" and check.

That should take care of it. No need for a thread, eh?

Thanks for the reply and the link.

It's a pretty cool tool, but it's designed for knowing whether a person's favorite team has played in a close game.

There are few problems:

1) A close game isn't necessarily an entertaining game. It's easy to imagine a game where the final score is close but the general standard of play was at a poor level. Even in a relatively high scoring game you can imagine the defense being so bad that the identical methods to score were repeatedly effective.

2) The final outcome of an otherwise entertaining can be pushed beyond 8 or more points in the final minute due to aggressive late game fouling, or say the winning team heating up from outside.

3) The website doesn't really cater for someone who wants to see an entertaining game regardless of the participants. You can't create a query "games from this week" and have it return games with a 5 or less score differential. This makes it cumbersome to use.

It's still a decent tool, and you can make reasonable assumptions about games (ie Cavs vs Lakers, both healthy, close final score). What it can't tell me is about epic battles, highly passionate and desperate play and unmissable games.

Well, if that's what you want, what are you waiting for? Why should a mod or "cool kid" do something that you want to do? Go ahead, make a topic on the General Board, and see what happens. If it catches on (and people behave and don't spoil the results), I'll make it a sticky.