See, I like sports stats very much. It was interesting to me ever since I was a little child. I remember when my old man use to come back form work holding the sports newspaper in his hands and I would go and jump on it, reading every number in every row and every column, later copying the digits to my notebook, calculating averages, sums and building the best soccer / basketball teams based on yesterday's scores.
Having said that, let me introduce the sports prediction league website me and my friends have built. It is called Hunchers.com and it is dedicated to the combination of sports statistics with user generated content. What this site tries to do it to predict the results of sporting events (games mainly) driven by the power of the wisdom of crowds. And the concept is really simple: If you are a sports fan, you register and start predicting the scores of games. We take your hunches throw them into a big pile along with other hunches (we will give you a better credit in this pile if you will prove yourself) and try to come with one unified conclusion on what will be the score.
I will talk about this website here and will bring interesting pieces of information for those of you that are interested, but I thought for my first post to do something interesting and try to choose the 5 most amazing NBA plays that made me shout when I saw them. So here they are:
1. "The Shot" - everybody knew the ball was going to Jordan. If Larry Bird said after Jordan's 63 vs. the Celtics that we saw "god disguised as Michael Jordan" I always think when I watch this shot that I'm sure that god stopped and looked and for this split of a second when Michael was in the air, deep in his heart, god wished that he was Michael Jordan.
2. "The Dunk" - John Starks dunking in the face of Grant, Pippen and Jordan. Simply the story of the underdog
3. "The Steal" - Larry Bird steals the ball in the conference final against the pistons in 1987.
4. "The Dunk #2" - Tom Chambers vs. the Knicks. What's amazing here is that it looked like he could fly at least 3 times higher with a little more effort
5. "13 points in 35 seconds" - Even if T-Mac would have thrown the ball in the opposite direction, it would still somehow find its way to the basket. amazing.
My apologies to those who didn't make it to the list, there are some that truly deserve it. One Last thing I want to say, since this is my first post, is that my name is not really Riko, it is just my "nom de plume" so I won't lose my day job. BTW, English is not my native language so my apologies for where I'm not clear enough.
Riko R.
