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#4006
GAA Discussion / Re: GAA statistics Apps & Software
December 24, 2015, 07:50:24 PM
Quote from: manfromdelmonte on December 24, 2015, 12:47:11 PM
A simple excel sheet and tot things up as you go along can be just as good. The person doing it is as important as the software.

What do a team need?
Wides by zone, turnovers in zones, blocks, kickouts won/lost, breaking ball

The app's a bit more sophisticated than that. Say you're watching the match. Your player 7 passes the ball to your player 9.

List of actions appears, you click Pass
List of outcomes appears, you click Success
List of players appears, you click 7

Player 9 takes a shot and scores

Click "shoots"
Click "scores"
Click 9

This builds up a complete picture of everything each player has done and records when it happened.
#4007
Quote from: CiKe on December 23, 2015, 12:27:19 PM
It must have been on here before but people parking in spaces reserved for people with disabilities...always makes me feel like taking a key to the side of the car...particularly if is an SUV...

If they have a disabled placard, let them tear away.
#4008
Quote from: omaghjoe on December 23, 2015, 12:28:09 AM
Quote from: stew on December 22, 2015, 04:36:56 PM
Quote from: Eamonnca1 on December 22, 2015, 03:40:00 AM
Exaggerating a little, but I still think the base that the candidates pander to these days is a lot smaller than 45% of the voters. They don't seem to be interested in appealing to women, people of colour, or anyone with more than tuppence worth of brains. Doesn't leave a whole lot of voters left to choose from.

Let's not forget that the Republican extremists in congress largely got there by way of gerrymandering, voter suppression and other cheating methods. The majority in the House does not have the majority of votes in the bag.

You are completely effed in the head!

Proof please of said gerrymandering, voter suppression and these other cheating methods?

I love you libtards, you see the world in two dimensions, Democrats great, Conservatives Evil.

Simpletons have more wit than you do Eamon.

Are the lot of yis not like that or vise versa? No middle ground the other side is inherently stupid, evil, illogical, overly emotional etc etc.

I discovered this article while back
http://bigthink.com/experts-corner/not-every-disagreement-is-a-logical-fallacy

Sometimes you just have to respect and accept people's views

Democrats have tried partisan gerrymandering in Maryland and Illinois. Republicans are at it all over the place in Ohio, Pennsylvania Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Texas, Louisiana, Arizona, Tennessee and more.  There's no equivalence here. If Republicans are evil and Democrats are not, it's okay to say so.
#4009
Republicans hold 57% of house seats on the strength of having 51% of the popular vote.
Democrats have 43% of house seats on the strength of having 45% of the popular vote.

As shown above, some of the gerrymandered districts would do a 1950s Unionist proud.

Voter suppression (shutting down polling places in minority neighborhoods, excessive voter ID laws designed to disenfranchise poor people, mass purging of electoral rolls etc.) is so well documented I can't believe you even have the gall to question it.
#4010
Fascinating.
#4011
He's talking about social issues. If the GOP stopped running on a shoot-the-poor ticket they might find a lot of latinos who'd feel comfortable voting for them.
#4012
Quote from: Canalman on December 21, 2015, 03:32:35 PM
Quote from: Orior on December 21, 2015, 01:36:17 PM
Quote from: AZOffaly on December 21, 2015, 01:26:39 PM
14th. Saving Private Ryan - 1998 - Action/Drama/War

Received 12 points (2 Second, 1 Fourth, 2 Fifth)

Starring  Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore

Plot Summary
Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.



I thought it was a bit boring.

+1.

Could never really see what the fuss was all about. Great opening and average afterwards.

Same for what it's worth about Braveheart. Thought it was dung.

They spend the whole film dismissing the value of saving a single human life, all the while shooting people and thinking nothing of it, even joking about the death all around them because they've become so desensitized to all the killing. The end takes us abruptly into the present day when we see all the descendants of the one man that was saved, just an ordinary family goofing around happily with each other like you or me. If it doesn't make you think then you probably missed the point.
#4013
Empty wrappers in the Quality Street tin.
#4014
GAA Discussion / Re: GAA statistics Apps & Software
December 22, 2015, 04:20:01 AM
Quote from: In hiding on December 22, 2015, 03:09:56 AM
Solid affordable quality software is provided by Profoma Sports from Armagh. Perfect for what most clubs need. Google them

I second that. The fella started it as a project at university and now he's running it as a startup. Did it for GAA first but he also worked into other sports too. He came out to San Francisco a while back and gave a demo of it, and I was blown away. I always thought you'd need a whole team of statisticians to record that kind of analytics from a game, but his interface lets one man do the job. You can integrate with video from a game too, so you can see the stats piling up as the video progresses.
#4015
Exaggerating a little, but I still think the base that the candidates pander to these days is a lot smaller than 45% of the voters. They don't seem to be interested in appealing to women, people of colour, or anyone with more than tuppence worth of brains. Doesn't leave a whole lot of voters left to choose from.

Let's not forget that the Republican extremists in congress largely got there by way of gerrymandering, voter suppression and other cheating methods. The majority in the House does not have the majority of votes in the bag.
#4016
Quote from: Canalman on December 21, 2015, 03:37:57 PM
For what it is worth I think the Republicans over the last decade or so have managed to strengthen their hardcore of 45% of the electorate. That core probably despise the Democrats/ Obama/ Clintons x2 more than ever.

Problem is / was trying to reach out to the 5/6% percent extra needed to win the presidency.
Being less than friendly to hispanics (natural republicans imo) a disaster imo given how the demographics of America are changing.

Your 45 sounds like a very high number. The number of racist old white men is a lot smaller than that, I would have thought.
#4017
Quote from: Gmac on December 21, 2015, 06:28:49 PM
People who have their iPhone in their face every time u see them but never answer if u call them

I pine for the days when people answered their phones.
#4018
Threads being deleted for arbitrary reasons even though they're not in violation of any rules. That admin should have his admin permissions revoked.
#4019
Dems would like Bernie to win but they recognize the reality that Hillary is a better bet for mopping up the centrist voters that they're going to need. Republitards are he'll be t on ideological purity, and in their echo chamber they can 't see that they need a centrist candidate to stand a chance of winning the general election. Why anyone would admire the Republican strategy is beyond me.
#4020
Fox et all are very upset that reality has a liberal bias.