Sporting Madness: Fun with the BCS!

Monday, December 08, 2008

Fun with the BCS!

So, your team got hosed by the arcane process of the BCS? Fear not. Here are some links to make you feel better about it. First, we have Patrick Hruby and Mike Philbrick's tournament to figure out what sci-fi computers would be better qualified to determine a national champion than the current system. My money's on Skynet. Next, Matthew J. Darnell of Shutdown Corner has a great piece on why the BCS is the ultimate solution and we should replace the NFL's silly "playoff system" with it. Enjoy.

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Sporting Madness

Madness definitions from WordNet:

n 1: obsolete terms for legal insanity
[syn: lunacy, madness, insaneness]
2: an acute viral disease of the
nervous system of warm-blooded animals
(usually transmitted by the bite of a
rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the
virus reaches the brain [syn:rabies,
hydrophobia, lyssa, madness]
3: a feeling of intense anger; "hell
hath no fury like a woman scorned";
"his face turned red with rage"
[syn: fury,rage, madness]
4: the quality of being rash and
foolish; "trying to drive through
a blizzard is the height of folly";
"adjusting to an insane society is
total foolishness" [syn: folly,
foolishness, craziness, madness]
5: unrestrained excitement or
enthusiasm; "poetry is a sort of
divine madness" [syn: madness,
rabidity, rabidness]

Seems to me that following sports as obsessively as I do can cause all of these definitions, sometimes simultaneously.