So it seems everyone is getting excited about Boiler Basketball. After 2 games last year was the excitement at the same level? Regardless, we still have a predominately young and inexperienced team. So, mistakes will happen, and we need to temper the HIGHs & LOWs. I do not want to go over the top in expectations, and my initial expectation was for Purdue with 9 Ws, with an upside of 11, and a downside of 8. However, I am patiently wanting to up my W projections by 1.
Enough about my opinion (and who cares anyway)... The original post of "Who has the Best Crystal Ball to pick the B1G Basketball ranking Top to bottom?" yielded 15 predictions. So THANKS to:
- all that either spent 5 minutes to do this -to-
- others that may have spent some time determining their selections.
It would be interesting to figure out what is the best method. But that is something that I will not comment on. So, again the results are in and the average of all 15 has PURDUE with 10 Ws and IN with only 7. Life is good, and hope the consensus is correct. The consensus follows:
Avg W |
W (rounded) |
|
WI |
14.6 |
15 |
MSU |
11.7 |
12 |
OSU |
11.5 |
12 |
MI |
10.9 |
11 |
NE |
10.4 |
10 |
Purdue |
10.3 |
10 |
IA |
9.4 |
9 |
MN |
9.3 |
9 |
IL |
8.8 |
9 |
MD |
8.5 |
9 |
IU |
7.1 |
7 |
NU |
6.3 |
6 |
PSU |
4.5 |
4 |
RU |
2.7 |
3 |
Total |
126.0 |
126 |
We are more than a month from B1G play, so more updates on these predictions will be limited until the season reaches March Madness. Again, good luck. Good 1st year, and I have learned a few lessons on putting this contest together. I know I do not need to say this on this blog, but critiques are welcome. Anyway...
Boiler UP!
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