It is college football time and it is my favorite time of year. You may see less of me, which will make most of you happy as hell.

agreed on the fav time of year, but if you go mags, who will i argue with? mizerle and his god damned ESSS-EEEEEEE-SEEEEE SPEED bullshit?

I think CubsDynasty (#65) got it right, really. In Moneyball, Beane capitalized on inefficiencies in the market and he paid for undervalued stats. At the time, it was OBP. While all the other front offices were still stuck on AVG and less important stats of the sort, Beane was building great teams for cheap with people who could get on base like crazy. Since then, other teams have caught on and OBP isn’t undervalued anymore. This means that Beane can’t always sign the best players and other small market teams (e.g: KC, Was., Cle., SD… in other words, most of the teams listed in the post) also aren’t getting the best OBP hitters like they might have before OBP became as prevalent as it is today. Basically, even if you wouldn’t classify the Cubs, for example, as a sabremetric franchise, they’re winning for arguably the same reason Beane’s A’s teams were earlier this decade, leading the league in OBP. In fact, in order, the four worst teams in terms of OBP are: Oakland, Washington, San Diego, Kansas City.

Basically, it’s hard for these “sabremetric” franchises to do a good job running their team when the big spenders are using the right stats as well, even if they aren’t labeled as such… at least that’s how I see it.

/Don’t care to hear that they haven’t won one in 20 years.

Every single football factory school is the same. USC, OSU, UM, FSU, Alabama, Florida, Miami, Oklahoma, etc. They all buy their players and bend the rules as much as they can to win. No one program is holier than another. The only possible exceptions are Duke, Stanford, and sometimes Boston College, but I think they’re becoming like everyone else.

alabama just makes up their own NC’s and says it’s fact.