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Yup.

Hopefully the Raptors beat the Nets and the Hawks beat the Pacers.

Hockeydb. I'm using date of birth, which transfers well to excel.

Okay, so I've been playing around with points per game among forwards and defencemen in the CHL in relation to age. When I ran a regression between PPG and date of birth (it transfers well to Excel), I got the following R^2 values for each: Forwards: 0.16 Defencemen: 0.13 (Makes sense that this is lower since offense isn't as important for defencemen) Afterward, I came up with an expected PPG value calculated using date of birth as the dependent variable in a linear regression formula. With that value, I subtract the player's actual PPG value by his expected PPG (relative to his DOB). Going by this measure, which I'll call age-adjusted PPG, here are the top 10 forwards and defencemen in the CHL: Forwards (age-adjusted PPG): 1. Jonathan Drouin (1.85 aPPG) 2. Anthony Mantha (1.53) 3. Connor McDavid (1.48) 4. Sam Reinhart (1.33) 5. Nic Petan (1.30) 6. Nikolaj Ehlers (1.27) 7. Anthony Duclair (1.24) 8. Sam Bennett (1.23) 9. Leon Draisaitl (1.22) 10. Connor Brown (1.16) Defencemen: 1. Anthony DeAngelo (1.12) (Ranked right below Brown in overall list) 2. Guillaume Gelinas (0.99) 3. Josh Morrissey (0.92) 4. Shea Theodore (0.84) 5. Derrick Pouliot (0.79) 6. Randy Gazzola (0.72) 7. Aaron Ekblad (0.67) 8. Julius Honka (0.64) 9. Mac Weegar (0.62) 10. Nikolas Brouillard (0.62) Oh, and I did the regressions within each league. Thoughts?

He rarely adapts to new situations and has difficulty working with players who don't fit his small ball system (eg. Kenneth Faried).

Karl is the NBA version of Randy Carlyle minus the ring. He's the last coach you want on your team.

Anthony Mantha should make the top 10.

Leon's skating is a concern, though.

Nylander is also interesting.

4th pick in the prospect draft. Going to be tough. Lots of good prospects to pick there.

Damn it!

IF?

This first round is turning mighty interesting quickly.

Stop ruining nice things with your "SCIENCE", NERD!

Almost there

That called-off goal was one of the worst calls I've seen this year

f*** you!

Just another Colon update:

Sepak Takraw >>>>> Lacrosse

With that said, the Raptors hurt themselves badly with poor shooting.

This game is a reminder of why I stopped watching it for years. Awful officiating.

That explains a lot.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you THE worst baseball column you will ever read. Deadspin even wrote an article on its hilarious terribleness. Here are the first three "paragraphs":

Yeah, save a spot for GD just in case

This doesn't surprise me. There's always going to be some form of racism/sexism/homophobia/xenophobia/etc. in sports. We have come so far from where we were 10 years ago, but there's always the few who continue with their prejudiced views.