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    For some reason I've always had a superstition about which way I drive to work affecting the phillies games. If they go on an losing streak, I'll drive a different route hoping to change things up. As I was driving in today I got to thinking that with moving out of my house and a new road opening, I've been taking a new route most of this year. I thought next year I have to retire this route and go a different way. Then, for a brief amount of time I thought I should start a whole database of my daily activities... route driven, foods eaten, activities engaged in, work done, innings listened to on the radio, innings watched on tv, people talked to/visited etc... then after a decent number of games I could run a regression analysis on my activities verses Phillies outcomes to see which of my activities has the greatest correlation with wins.

    then i realized I'm insane.
    I'm not expecting to grow flowers in the desert...

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    My wife is usually pretty smart but she refuses to believe that the shirt I chose to wear or what I eat for breakfast has anything to do with the results of sporting events. She thinks the commercial where they play Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" is funny while I maintain it is a documentary.

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    • #3
      So long as you recognize that it's crazy, there's still hope.
      "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less."
      "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
      "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master - that's all."

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      • #4
        Originally posted by senorsheep View Post
        So long as you recognize that it's crazy, there's still hope.
        For the Phillies?
        "Jesus said to them, 'Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God ahead of you.'"

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        • #5
          Originally posted by dslaw View Post
          My wife is usually pretty smart but she refuses to believe that the shirt I chose to wear or what I eat for breakfast has anything to do with the results of sporting events. She thinks the commercial where they play Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" is funny while I maintain it is a documentary.
          CLOTHES! How could I forget such a critical data point!??!?
          I'm not expecting to grow flowers in the desert...

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Kevin Seitzer View Post
            For the Phillies?
            is there a large body of work out there from superstitionmatricians?
            I'm not expecting to grow flowers in the desert...

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