Casey Holdahl: Power Rankings

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  1. magnifier661

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    http://forwardcenter.net/power-rankings-almost-at-the-top-in-week-7/

    I don't want to take away from his gathering, so I recommend you read for yourself, but to summarize...

    Mark Stein has us 5th

    David Aldridge has us 7th (We were fucking 9th last week!!!!)

    Marc Spears has us 3rd

    John Schuhmann has us 3rd

    Matt Dollinger has us 2nd

    Matt Moore has us 3rd

    Josh Martin has us 2nd

    Jimmy Spencer has us 3rd

    Drew Garrison has us 3rd

    Bryan "Fight the Power" (who the fuck is this guy?) has us 4th
     
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    There is plenty of room on the Blazer Wagon!
     
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    Hollinger has us 7th too. Actually dropped us a spot after only beating the Knicks by 4.
     
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    Hollinger is a program though. It just runs numbers and puts us on a rank. The others are actually humans behind them. And Aldridge had us 9th last week.
     
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    I understand that. What I'm saying is that the Hollinger statistical ranking actually supports Aldridge's human ranking--that the fact that he's the outlier doesn't necessarily mean he's wrong. You know, like when Hollinger's statistical ranking supported Kingspeed's presumably ludicrous "Will the Rockets make the playoffs?" thread.

    Of course, Aldridge has the Rockets 2nd, whereas the Hollinger model has them 12th, so...make of that what you will.
     
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    Interesting logic given that he moved the Mavs ahead of us and they had to go to overtime to beat the Knicks a couple of weeks ago... and they were at home.
     
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    But it really doesn't since Aldridge had us 9th last week, when the Hollinger program had us 5th.
     
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    Different methodology. The Hollinger program reevaluates daily, based on SOS and last 10, whereas Aldridge updates weekly based primarily on prior ranking and weekly w-l record. But their end conclusion is the same--we're not necessarily as good relative to the rest of the league as our record says we are.

    Are you in a particularly contentious mood today? You seem to be arguing with me over nothing...
     
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    I'm in no mood that would gear me to argue with you. I was just wondering how Aldridge and Hollinger are related to the ranking. The reason was because Aldridge had us 9th and dropped us to 7, while Hollinger had us 5 last week and 7th now.

    So I hope you aren't taking offense to my questioning....
     
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    The SlyPokerDog ranking has the Blazers at #1.
     
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    Same here!
     
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    Btw... I thought you were gonna do weekly power rankings? :(
     
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    I'm pretty difficult to offend. I just know that sometimes you get debate happy.

    As for how they're related, I think it's pretty obvious. Aldridge's ranking was easily the lowest of those in the compilation, and it just happened to match the ESPN statistical model, irrespective of historical ranking.
     
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    What do you mean I'm debate happy?! I don't debate! :devilwink:
     
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    More importantly we're apparently signing LeBron next summer
     
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    Hear hear!
     
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    Welp, looks like we will miss the playoffs. Good season while it lasted though
     
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    http://espn.go.com/nba/hollinger/playoffodds

    Not quite. Even with the drop, Blazers are still 98% favored to make the playoffs.

    But hey, Houston is creeping up with a 30% chance to miss the playoffs
     
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