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The Best, Jerry! The Best!
December 18, 2008 by
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The 1996 Chicago Bulls won 72 regular season games and are widely regarded as the greatest team in NBA history. Indeed, no one has ever played more efficiently over an entire season: the '96 Bulls' Pythagorean win percentage (.850) is yet to be outdone. The closest any squad...
Why Have the Cavs Been So Good?
December 12, 2008 by
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Currently, the Cavs are second in the N.B.A. in defensive efficiency (points allowed per possession) and first in offensive efficiency (duh). That's amazing. It's especially amazing since, in recent memory, the Cavs have been a severely defensive-oriented team. Last season...
Bored and Malaised on the Cleveland Browns
December 05, 2008 by
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Regular readers have surely noticed recently that there just aren't as many articles on our blog anymore. And when Corey or I write something new, it's often long past the arbitary deadline we had tried to impose. This has been most obvious in the case of "Born and Raised...
Born and Raised on the Cleveland Browns: Week 12
November 28, 2008 by
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I hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving, as we did. I stuffed my face with mom's famous vegan turducken, Alex got into a huge political argument with Marxist Uncle Leopold, and Cousin Ahtyba reprised last year's puppet show about the first Thanksgiving (now with laser effects...
Browns vs. Texans Preview
November 21, 2008 by
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Oh, hello, didn't see you there. I was just previewing this Browns game. Care to join me?En tant que toujours, the stats in this preview are taken from Football Outsiders; click here to read about how DVOA works.Browns offense vs. Texans defense: CLE offense HOU defensetotal DVOA...
Born and Raised on the Cleveland Browns: Week 11
November 20, 2008 by
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That was an ugly game. It's late, Corey's next preview will be dropping soon, so let's just get to it, right? Great!Play of the WeekAlex says: How about Brady Quinn's interception incompletion late in the fourth quarter? Thankfully replays made clear that the nose of...
Cavaliers–Wizards Mediocre Preview Extravaganza (Or: The Pre-Season of the Post-Season!)
April 26, 2008 by
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Anyone who thinks that a preview should be published before the series actually starts obviously doesn't write for this blog. Though, in light of the fact that Game 1 is over and done and that the first round is a mere formality anyway, I'm going to keep this brief. If you...
The Regular Season in Review
April 19, 2008 by
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I'm still not sure what to make of the Cavaliers' 2007-2008 regular season. As the Cavs prepare, once again, for the bureaucratic formality that is the Washington Wizards, I'm not sure whether we should be optimistic or pessimistic about the team's "true"...
Who Wants It More?
April 10, 2008 by
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It's an age-old bit of conventional wisdom: Team A won because they wanted it more. But we at the Mistake by the Lake Sporting Times are nothing if not skeptical of conventional wisdom
Winter Haven is a Winter Haven
April 07, 2008 by
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Spring Training statistics are almost completely useless. Though in sabermetric circles, the same study is trot out every March: John Dewan found that "a hitter with a positive difference between their Spring Training slugging percentage and their lifetime slugging percentage...
Better Even Than Brad Daugherty?
March 27, 2008 by
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So, LeBron is now the Cavaliers franchise scoring leader, as you know, and there is much rejoicing amongst the Brothers Rubin, as you might expect. During Friday's game, there was much talk about this historic event
Getting Carried Away
March 26, 2008 by
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Inspired by Corey's latest post, I decided to graph the career scoring trajectory of the best scorers in N.B.A. history, some other notables, and LeBron. I wanted to see whether Corey was right when he wrote, "it's extremely likely He's going to be competing for the...
Early Returns
March 17, 2008 by
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The Cavs have played 11 games since Wallace, Szczerbiak, West and Smith first donned their wine 'n' golds. Is that enough of a sample size for us to start drawing conclusions about the current roster, vis-à-vis the previous one? Heck no! But we haven't posted anything...
George Is Getting Upset!
March 16, 2008 by
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In the transaction flurry following the start of the N.F.L. free agent period, the Browns have made three moves: resigning Derek Anderson, trading for Corey Williams, and trading for Shaun Rogers. I'm going to write about the last of these. For the sake of exposition, the Lions...
Back to the Well
February 29, 2008 by
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Sometimes, I wonder whether I should even do this anymore. No one takes him seriously; do they? Still, though, I couldn't resist. It's back to the well: mocking Bill Livingston!When the Cavaliers were awful and LeBron James was even younger, the gone but not forgotten Darius...
The Value of Goat's Milk in Daily Diet (Though You Can Be Sure I Will Also Speak Against Larry Hughes)
February 27, 2008 by
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You've undoubtedly heard that the Cavs made a big trade today. In general, I don't like to blog about what's in the headlines, nor do I like to deliver snap assessments of trades, but this one is pretty mesmerizing. It's got an extremely positive element (bye, Larry...
Browns vs. Dolphins Preview
February 19, 2008 by
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I don't have time for chit-chat; there's baseball to watch soon! Let's preview.As always, the stats in this preview come from Football Outsiders' DVOA reports. Click here for an explanation of how DVOA works.Browns offense vs. Dolphins defense: CLE offense MIA defensetotal...
Born and Raised on the Cleveland Browns: Week 5
February 17, 2008 by
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This game could have been much, much worse. I'm not going as far as to say I'm happy, per se, with the Browns' performance against the Patriots, but I will say that they performed better than we might have expected. Even with New England's unnecessary touchdown in the...
Emptyin' the Mailbox: Cavaliers Edition
February 16, 2008 by
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As you have undoubtedly surmised, Alex and I get a ton of reader mail. We do our best to respond to every inquiry, but with Alex's 13 jobs, my frequent business travel in Eastern Europe, taking care of Gomer (our secret black sheep younger brother), karate practice, surveying the...
Born and Raised on the AFC
February 11, 2008 by
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Without a single exception, it's every football fan's absolute favorite event of the year: the Pro Bowl! Now, personally, I was under the impression the Pro Bowl got cancelled about eight years ago, but apparently now it's back, and better than ever!And what, you might...
Les dépouilles au vainqueur!
February 11, 2008 by
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At the risk of holding this discussion slightly prematurely, I was curious to know who currently leads the Indians in Win Probability Added (WPA) in the postseason so far. To calculate a player's WPA for, say, a single at-bat, take the team's probability of winning at the beginning...
Born and Raised on the Cleveland Browns: Week 4
February 07, 2008 by
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Blink, and you may have missed it. After two drives and two touchdowns, the game was basically overâ€"although we didn't know it at the time. For the rest of the game, the Browns played ultra-conservatively on offense. Case in point: after Braylon's touchdown (which...
Hey, Readers!
February 05, 2008 by
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Okay, here's how this is going to work.As you know, Sunday is LeBron Day, the holiest day of the year. As we always do, Alex and I will certainly be posting a lengthy recap of our LeBron Day celebration, complete with pictures and lots of recycled jokes. However, there is also...
That'll Be the Day
February 04, 2008 by
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You probably missed it, but last night Fox broadcast the "Super Bowl". I'd never heard of it either. But apparently, it's the championship game of the N.F.L. Don't get your hopes upâ€"the Browns weren't playing. In the end, the white team beat the...
Beat-Down of Beat-Downs
February 04, 2008 by
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How convincing was the Cavs' 121-85 win over the Wizards on Wednesday? Try: the most convincing Cavaliers victory in more than a decade.I have game-by-game offensive and defensive efficiency data for all Cavs games going back to October 1997. When I went to update the spreadsheet...
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