Hello Fans! Today the FBC Defenders took the floor in the opening game of the Blue Chip - US Invitational at Penn State University by defeating the Buffalo Storm! The game started as if the Defenders were going to crush the Storm by executing their offense to get several open 3s and fast break layup ...
George Olshevsky was able to corral a number of great artists* to provide the covers for his Marvel Comics Index series in the 1970s. Neal Adams drew this nifty cover to issue #3, which featured the Avengers, Defenders, and Captain Marvel. On this cover, my favorite Avenger, the Vision, is featured ...
The U.S.’s performance in the Confederations Cup is arguably the greatest performance ever by a team that finished with a losing record. And, as we look forward to the World Cup, it occurred to me that with the guys who were injured (but who presumably won’t be in June 2010) the chance to win a spot ...
As promised, the point of providing you with all the data behind the scenes was so that we could get into the good stuff. At the bottom of this post is table similar to the previous ones but this time, we substitute in the player’s rank in the category, rather than the total. Let’s start by identify ...
As described in the prior post, we are looking at the data of six defenders to try and get a sense of what factors the Casterol Index used to rank Oguchi Onyewu the worst defender (and player) at the Confederations Cup. Because only two of our six defenders played the same amount of minutes, we are ...
Felt that Onyewu’s seemingly strong performance in the Confederations Cup merited more than merely letting the Casterol Index’s slight go uninvestigated. So, I picked five other defenders and compared a variety of statistics that I thought could arguably be relevant to whether a player is a good def ...
The Casterol Index is a system that FIFA plans on using in the World Cup to get an objective rating of how the actions of each player on the field affect the score. For each action a player takes, the Casterol Index assigns it a value based on a variety of factors, including where it happens on the ...