GBO
- Thread starter buckaroo
- Start date
We suck and are very mediocre. We fell from grace years ago….didn't you hear? 
Don't you love math. It's absolute….. until it's not. This is way misleading if you are trying to say it's the best overall program. A perfect record and national championship would only be 15 wins in football. While a perfect baseball season would be worth 65 wins (I know no way for a perfect baseball season). To treat each of those wins as complete equal is playing the numbers to make them say what you want them to.
The better way would be to take the major sports win percentage individually and then average that out.
The better way would be to take the major sports win percentage individually and then average that out.
Your post is misleading if your trying to say that the Tennessee Vols program was NOT the best overall program across those three sports (combined) over the past season.
buckaroo
Well-Known Member
Read it again its percentage
Correct. Re read mine. This picture treats all games across all sports as equal. So with 65 baseball, 30ish basketball but only 12 football games it's not a real reflection of which overall program is better. Would you rather have
A:
12-0 football season, 50-15 baseball, 19-11 basketball. .757 win percent
Or
B:
2-10 football 55-10 baseball 25-5 basketball? .767 win percent
B is a higher total win percent because it treats 12 football wins the same as a combined 12 wins over basketball and baseball. Now if you take the win percentages of the 3 sports and then average you get
A: 1000% football, 785% baseball, 633% basketball. Then average those out: .806%
B: .166% football, .846% Baseball, .833 Basketball Then average those out you get: .615
The picture is using the B method. It treats the 3 sports equal but if you place value to win percentage in each sport they aren't.
Now the real test, did anyone read that long post with way too much math
See my reply above. Technically you are correct if you think winning 1 football game is the same as winning 1 baseball game. Also helps if you are wearing these to see if TN is the best
Attachments
buckaroo
Well-Known Member
Obviously you have some other colored glasses lol
I am an Arkansas fan, so I have accepted my mediocracy. The are ranked second on the above chart, so I want to believe but the math doesn't work
I just wanted to get in before Bandwagon Nation wakes up from their Natty Light hangovers, crawls out of bed with their cousin wives, and logs in to tell us that nobody cares about baseball or basketball and football is all that matters.
THEdonkey0515
Well-Known Member
Nice!
With 2 SEC tournament chips in that mix also.⁷
Girls soccer also won a tournament SEC chip. UT was rolling Last year across the board.
With 2 SEC tournament chips in that mix also.⁷
Girls soccer also won a tournament SEC chip. UT was rolling Last year across the board.
Break it down for us arky
Thank you for agreeing.
I do have to give you credit for taking the REALLY long way around to tell us what we already knew.
Pretty simple to me? Says TN is the best program overall across the board based on winning percentage.
TN
7-6 with a bowl loss
Second round bounce in the NCAA tourney basketball
Failure to make the baseball WS super regional loss
AR
9-4 FB with a bowl win
Elite 8 basketball
College World Series
But wasn't this broke down in wins and losses or am I missing something???
Well I didn't mean to ruffle feathers. The original post was how TN had the most total wind across the 3 major mens sports, which they do. It counts a football win the same as a baseball win. So losing 3 games in a row in football and losing an entire 3 day series are equal.
I disagree with this logic. I think the best way would be to take all 3 sports win percentage and then average them out. This would be a much better way to see where you stand across the 3 sports.
Sorry I did spin it into which program has had the best end results. I know that wasn't the original post. If you are good with the original post then good for you. I just think it's kind of like being a champion of life.
Too low?
I disagree with this logic. I think the best way would be to take all 3 sports win percentage and then average them out. This would be a much better way to see where you stand across the 3 sports.
Sorry I did spin it into which program has had the best end results. I know that wasn't the original post. If you are good with the original post then good for you. I just think it's kind of like being a champion of life.
Too low?
My feathers weren't ruffled to be clear. I like the back and forth of sports fans (mostly lol)
I just didn't think your argument had any merit.
The "arky" jab wasn't meant as bad as it sounded. They are actually my second favorite team
I probably came off as a complete prick and didn't really mean it that way bud, just banter
