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NYT: Insider betting scandal in Fantasy Football
ToGoGo replied to YoloinOhio's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
A ha! That makes a lot of sense. Big advantage. Nobody monitors these guys anyways, who busted them? -
NYT: Insider betting scandal in Fantasy Football
ToGoGo replied to YoloinOhio's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Regardless, every game with meaningful money you're playing against sharps that use computer algorithms to predict winners. They're going to beat you 8 out of 10 times. Something like 1% of all players stay in the green over the course of the year. -
NYT: Insider betting scandal in Fantasy Football
ToGoGo replied to YoloinOhio's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
There's a lot of talk in the article about "data" and "insider information". What data and inside information do the employees have? Does this mean they take the lineups of the must successful bettors and use them on the competing site? For all the details in the articles, this was really vague. Don't be. Draftkings is partnered with MLB and Fanduel is partnered with the NBA. They're quietly trying to legalize sports gambling. -
I think it's a very obvious thing to do. Right now the most vulnerable area to fixing games is calling penalties on crucial plays. Whether you agree that it's done or not, I think people should acknowledge THAT is the way it would be done IF it's done. They should implement reviews for that reason alone.
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Attn Bills FANS: Log off for the night
ToGoGo replied to ThurmasThoman's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
To answer this, I always think about the ESPN report where the owners knew Goodell was covering up Spygate but went with it to protect the "shield". Billionaires don't like to lose money. Teams make a large percentage of their money from revenue sharing. The more revenue there is, the more revenue there is to share. And if there is more revenue when the Cowboys or Giants or Patriots are good, then the owners would go along with it. Pegula came out of absolutely nowhere. I never heard of the guy before he bought the Sabres and I don't know anybody else who did. Who knows what his motives truly are. -
Attn Bills FANS: Log off for the night
ToGoGo replied to ThurmasThoman's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Inter-league makes way too much sense. Explains how Cutler feel into their laps. NHL might be the most rigged with the LA and Chicago turning into powerhouses, and now the Rangers in the finals. Boston a couple years ago, etc. Don't forget Bettman is a Stern crony, and despite the forward-thinking, so is Adam Silver. -
Attn Bills FANS: Log off for the night
ToGoGo replied to ThurmasThoman's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Good insight. But in my experience you can spot the outsourced Indian reps by their overly formal way of typing. I haven't seen that on here. Unless they have scripts. -
Attn Bills FANS: Log off for the night
ToGoGo replied to ThurmasThoman's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
To play devil's advocate, why aren't the Jets or Bears better? They did have deep playoff runs over the last decade but nothing like the Patriots. -
Attn Bills FANS: Log off for the night
ToGoGo replied to ThurmasThoman's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
One suggestion is that we're small market and we sell-out no matter what. The NFL knows the Bills won't make much more money whether they win or lose. Makes you see this in a different light: @mikerodak Per @DanGrazianoESPN, Giants coach Tom Coughlin told his players before Sunday's game that the Bills would beat themselves with penalties. -
Attn Bills FANS: Log off for the night
ToGoGo replied to ThurmasThoman's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
What's happened over the last 10 years or so is that whenever somebody accuses X group/corporation of conspiring to do Y, they are immediately grouped in with lizard people/UFOs/JFK/etc. The truth is governments/intelligence agencies/corporations and many other groups work by conspiring against the public and are actually caught all the time. They have turned "conspiracy theorist" into a slur in order to discredit ANYTHING remotely close to one. It's very dangerous propaganda and it worked. The NFL fixing games does not seem insane to me, especially when it happened in the NBA less than 10 years ago. -
The "can Dan" Carpenter thread
ToGoGo replied to Pine Barrens Mafia's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
There's something up with him. Even after making the 51 yarder he seemed unsure of himself. He seems prone to the yips like what happened to him in Miami. -
Attn Bills FANS: Log off for the night
ToGoGo replied to ThurmasThoman's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
It seems far-fetched, but the same thing that doomed us versus the pats doomed us today, which is penalties in crucial situations. I've said it many times before, IF the NFL is fixed, it would be via refs calling penalties at critical times. It would not be the players because they're paid too much, but refs, who as johnnygold pointed out, are part-time employees. And it would not be by calling a lot of penalties since that shows up on the box score, but calling penalties at CRITICAL times since that is not kept as a statistic in any way, shape, or form. It happened in the NBA folks, not making that up. It could happen in the NFL. HOWEVER, when Donaghy did it, it wasn't about who won but about the spread. I believe we were 6 point favorites here so I'm not sure why the Incognito call would have to be made. -
Doug Whaley has truly learned from the Genius.
ToGoGo replied to PlayoffsPlease's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
It's his third year and the team's record should not be a reflection on him until he was the top guy. 6-10, 9-7, TBD. -
Blowout win, bad game, blowout win, bad game. I'm seeing a pattern. I watched the All-22 of the Giants during the week. I thought the only way they can beat us is if Eli throws the short timing routes and we don't defend them. Well that's exactly what happened the 1st half just long enough to fall into a 16-3 hole. What the f*ck is Ryan and Thurman thinking after the Pats game? Do they not know that the Giants are going to throw short timing slants? I'm an amateur observer and I figured it out.
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Best summary I've seen yet. After a game I close my eyes, clear my mind, and try to figure out the "story" of the game and why we won or lost. All I could think about was that we were the better team and we came out there unprepared. We got outblocked in the run game and kept making dumb mistakes at inopportune times. I'm not one to blame the coach usually, but I think this ones on Rex.
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Really, really unlucky day. The INT, the fumble, the missed FG, the Bradham whiff, the penalty on the Giant's FG. Football gods were not on our side today. Sure a lot is on us and the playcalling, but some real funky stuff happened today. We're a better team than this.
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I was thinking the same thing. How can a receiver hold on to the ball with two DBs grabbing at the ball. Whistle needs to be blown. I don't care what the rules say, that shouldn't be a fumble.
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I think he's just thinking too much out there. He's not playing by instinct.
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Right on; This is a test. They made good 2nd half adjustments against the Pats, let's see what we can do here.
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Awful half. But we can come back. We need turnovers and Tyrod to get into a groove. And get the ball to Harvin.
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"Clinging to". You've now started off two different replies with something that makes me roll my eyes. It's true Rex has changed the culture. Positive charisma is the most powerful drug on the planet. However, just because Rex has changed it quicker (with an improved roster) does not automatically discount Marrone from changing it too. "X being successful does not make Y a failure." I'd argue that specific positions on offense underperformed, but the team overperformed in general. Relying on the defense, bungling in-game decisions, and other little things have nothing to do with my definition of changing the culture. "By any means necessary" is a part of my definition. "Only in specific ways" seems to be part of yours. I'm talking in general, but you keep "clinging" to specifics. You keep attempting to take a win away from Marrone and paint him as 8-8 in order to help your stance. The truth is he's 9-7. Our opinions on the Patriots and Chiefs games don't really matter. Another truth is that he had the first winning season in nearly 10 years. Of course we wouldn't have Roman and maybe Tyrod or Harvin. And the offense may not be as exciting. But my point is that I think Marrone would have found a way to improve our offense with some of those better players (like KW, McCoy, Miller). I think we would still be 2-1 right now with Marrone and Schwartz, but perhaps not as fun to watch. He had a winning season despite that stress. With an improved roster and the same stress, I don't see why we would have been a worse team. If you're arguing that the stress would have snowballed and he would have had a breakdown that ruined the season, well that's a unique viewpoint I haven't heard yet. It's interesting and something I can consider.
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Watkins Injury Update - post em here
ToGoGo replied to truth on hold's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Or just fringe ideas in general. You go back in history and some fringe ideas are nonsense, but many more move into the center like "the earth is round" and "yards per attempt is important" as you mentioned. -
Watkins Injury Update - post em here
ToGoGo replied to truth on hold's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
It's a stretch, but I agree with his overall premise.