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mlb power rankings week 3

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:10:54 EDT

I'm a little late getting this up this week. I've been extremely busy and just got around to doing it. I only counted the games up until Sunday.

1 Red Sox (7-6) Last Week-1

2 Diamondbacks (9-3) Last Week-7

3 Yankees (6-7) Last Week-2

MLB power rankings, week 2

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:43:51 EDT

A few big movers this week, but all in all it's too early to make any big judgements.

1 Red Sox 3-4) Last Week-1. A rough week, but considering the road they've been on already, that was probably to be expected.

2 Yankees (3-3) Last Week-2. Struggled early, but so did most other contending teams.

3 Indians (3-3) Last Week-4. Need Sabathia to start pitching better.

MLB preseason power rankings

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:44:00 EDT

This is kind of a last minute thing, but I just decided to do it last night. For the first week I'll rank the teams based on my predicted records for this season.

1 Boston

2 New York Yankees

3 Detroit

Predicted NL Standings and Playoffs

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:08:31 EDT

East

New York 93-69

Philadelphia 91-71

Atlanta 87-75

Predicted AL standings

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:50:00 EDT

Without taking when each team is playing each other into account(for example, the Tigers playing the Yankees and Red Sox early when the bullpen will struggle most), I went through each teams schedule and approximated how many wins I thought they'd get against each team they played. The standings that came out of it were this.

East

Boston 97-65

New York 96-66

Detroit Tigers 2008 preview

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:39:26 EDT

Coming off their AL title in 2006, the Tigers were expected to be among the top contenders for the World Series in 2007. Unfortunately for them, the injury bug hit early and often, and the pitching couldn't duplicate their successes of 06. Injuries to Kenny Rogers, Joe Zumaya, Fernando Rodney, and later on Jeremy Bonderman led to pitchers like Jason Grilli, Tim Byrdak, Chad Durbin, and the obviously not yet major league ready Andrew Miller to be thrown into key roles.

But for all the disappointments in 07, there were plenty of bright spots. Magglio Ordonez won the franchise's first batting title in over 40 years. Curtis Granderson became the 3rd player in major league history to have 20 homers, doubles, triples, and steals in a season(the group later expanded to 4 with Jimmy Rollins). There was also a no hitter by young phenom Justin Verlander, and 88 wins, marking the team's 2nd winning season since 1993 and the first time they were above .500 in consecutive seasons since they had winning seasons in 1982-88.

fantasy draft

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:54:24 EDT

Today was my fantasy draft on yahoo. I think I got a pretty good team out of it, but most people do feel good coming out of a live draft. Let me know what you think. I had the 7th pick in the draft.

1 Jimmy Rollins SS

2 Brandon Phillips 2B

3 Curtis Granderson OF

ncaa tournament projections 3/6

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 2:36:07 EST

Sorry for the delay in posting this. I did my latest bracket on Thursday afternoon and just never got it posted. All games used to decide this are as of Wednesday, March 5th.

South Regional

Memphis

Xavier

ncaa tournament projections 3/2

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:07:53 EST

I meant to post this yesterday but forgot, so some things would probably be changed now. All of the records are through Saturday, March 1st.

South Regional

Memphis(28-1)

Xavier(25-4)

ncaa tournament projections 2/27

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:19:03 EST

With March approaching fast and the tournament stretch run upon us, I will be updating my brackets twice a week, possibly more. Thanks to all the great comments in the last couple of weeks, I realized that I had a few teams overseeded and others underseeded. This caused me to pay more attention and take more time in selecting and seeding teams.

With that, here is today's projection, with all records as of the games of February 26th.

South Regional

Tennessee(24-3)

buckeye22's NCAA tournament projections 2/24

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:56:15 EST

Time for my 2nd weekly tournament projection. All my data was collected during the Ohio State-Wisconsin game today and was based off games through Saturday. None of Sunday's results are reflected in this.

South Regional

Tennessee(SEC)

Georgetown(Big East)

Buckeye22's NCAA tournament projections 2/17

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:15:52 EST

From now until the end of the conference tournaments I will be doing NCAA tournament predictions. These will likely be weekly but could be bi weekly depending on my work load in school. I try my best to take into account everything the selection commitee does, and it certainly isn't something that is easy to do. Automatic bids will go to the team who is currently leading the conference, and in no way is my opinion on who will eventually win the conference tournaments.

South Region

Memphis(CUSA)

Texas

favorite teams of buckeye22

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:45:57 EST

I finally decided to start a blog on here. Couldn't decide what I wanted to do it on before, but I finally just bit the bullet and did it. This won't be a daily thing, but I should update it once a week at least.

It's been a pretty good year in sports for me. The Buckeye football team made a surprise run to the title game before falling short again. The Buckeye basketball team is struggling a little and will likely be on the bubble, but it's a lot better than before when a rebuilding year meant 10 wins. The Jags made the playoffs and were a couple of dropped passes away from possibly beating the Patriots. Now they got Gregg Williams as DC and are expected to be players in free agency. I consider them a darkhorse team for next years Super Bowl. The Tigers should be contenders this year. After all the years of losing I would be most happy if they won a championship.