Forum: Games and Sports

If they moved to the SEC or ACC, or even Big 10, what realignment dominoes would that set off?

Congrats to Piazza and Griffey! Griffey broke Seaver's % record. (3 votes shy of 100%)

In this game: come up with an answer, to which the next person names the category said answer might plausibly be from. After which they give their own answer, and so on.

How much longer would it take to recover from tearing all 4 cruciate ligaments v. Both tendons and menisci?

Back in the day, it moved around quite a bit, though Yankee Stadium was a popular venue. Do you think we'll ever get back to that, or has that shipped sailed?

Would this be a reasonable strategy: For each round, have two positional priorities, the lesser 1st rd priority is the higher 2nd round priority, etc.

When teams move catchers to new defensive positions, which foul line do they move hi up, and how far? IOW- 3B or 1B, or corner OF.

According to a trade calculator I found, the #1 pick is worth 3,000 points. How much are: the starting, back-up and #3 QB worth? To make the trades I tried worth it, the values needed are: 525 for the #3 1683 for the backup 2256 for the...

If you wanted to set parameters for a search on their sites, how would you go about that?

I think it would be better for baseball's draft to be more like other sports, with it's draft in the off-season. In this case, the college off-season. Would moving the draft back three weeks really be detrimental to MLB? The only bad side I see is...

I once saw a chart showing a progression of the way players would change positions. Anyone else ever see it? I believe it starts with 3B or LF, ending w/1B.

Suppose that the Conference Championship games went the other way, and the Super Bowl went the other way (if the NFC won in RL, the AFC wins the counter factual SB). How are legacies changed? I know: Brady wins late in his career, not early,...

I understand why soccer is so popular in the 3rd World, due to lack of resources for more complicated games. But why does its popularity persist in the 1st World? I assume it started because they brought the game back from their colonial possessions.

In a sports league with 8 games, how many different ways can their home and road games be distributed? I think it's (2^8)/2

Chuck Daly, former championship coach of the Detroit Pistons, has been diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. And Colleen Howe, wife of Mr. Hockey, died today of Pick's disease.

Anyone a hockey fan here? I'm reading Puck Daddy's blog now; I almost forgot today was the day! The Wings aren't in the market so I hadn't been paying attention. Calgary's picked up Olli Jokinen and Jordan Leopold. Those seem to be the biggest...

Funny Farm I don't know if you guys have seen this yet but a friend sent me the link yesterday and I have been unable to stop since then. It's very simple: you start with a prompt, "On the Farm", and it's linked to several boxes where you enter...

In which we determine through an incontrovertibly objective scientific process what the absolute best kind of pie is: 1a) Apple 1b) Peach 2a) Blueberry 2b) Cherry 3a) Strawberry 3b) Strawberry-Rhubarb

You know the rules, dumbos. One word per post, include the number so I can keep track, and if two people try for the same one I'll use whichever gets posted first. 1. noun - place 2. adjective 3. plural noun - type of person 4. male dumbo 5....

A few weeks ago I played Texas Hold'em for the first time. First I read up on the rules and practiced against an (offline) computer game. Shortly afterwards I met with a friends of mine and we played live (real but negligible money), but only one...

For some reason I am far too easily amused by randomly generated content. Of course there was Cluricaun's album cover game. I also like Markov chain text generators like this one. In the novel thread I learned about They Fight Crime! There...

A while ago I was rather surprised when I learned that in America running up the score is considered such a bad thing. We don't have a comparable rule. Obviously it isn't nice to be on the receiving end of it, but what is the winning side supposed...

Now, at the end of the Olympics might be a good time sum up all the little more or less useful pieces of information that we learnt from olympics coverage. Although skeleton looks dangerous it is reportedly the safest sledding sport because of...

How good are you at distinguishing colors? In this little test you have to arrange colored squares by hue. http://spectralcolor.com/game/huetest_kiosk I got a score of 7.

Here is a little pitch perception test. I have no idea how meaningful the test is but it seems at least somewhat reputable. http://jakemandell.com/tonedeaf/ My score: 55.6% correct "possible pitch percetion or memory deficit" (4th...

My mother-in-law just bought a Nintendo DS, primarily to play one game: Slingo Quest. She’s been playing it night and day for hours on end. I need simple, really, really simple games to add to her collection. She’s an unrepentant technophobe who...

A single place to discuss your team's needs, both in free agency (mostly done with) and in the draft (upcoming). After fooling themselves with the idea Kurt Warner wasn't just using them as leverage, the 49ers went out and signed Damon Huard. The...

Who's in? Shall we use PlayDiplomacy, a Judge, or email it all to a hapless accommodating poster?

This game is interesting on how it learns from its mistakes when he fails to guess your character. I managed to make it miss with the Duke of Wellington and Professor Ochanomizu/Dr. Packidermus J. Elefun from Astroboy, but Akinator did guess the...

Do you ever figure out an answer to a crossword puzzle clue and have no idea how the answer comes from the clue? Let's help each other figure them out! And, of course, general crossword clue solving help questions are welcome here as well. ...

Through a series of events in chat, we have invented a new game: Baby Pitchfork Dumpster Toss. The game is played in the alley behind a kwik-e-mart. Teams: The offense which has lacrosse sticks to hurtle the babies into the dumpster, and...

I'm not much of a sports fan. I follow along a bit, cheer for the home team and get impressed by accomplishments, but I've never been a sports nerd. Possibly because of this I wonder about those legendary sportsmen, the number ones of their sport,...

I play an on-line version of boggle sometimes at http://www.wordsplay.net/ . One of the statistics that the game displays is the total number of potential points from the grid that was just played. A really tough board will be as low as 150 points...

The Googlescape is a very big place. You can Google almost anything, no matter how absurd, and get some hits. So here is the challenge: choose any 5-letter string that is easily pronounceable by a native English speaker (so, "qzkwk" is out, but...

Remember the fuss that was made a few years ago when some mischievous scientists disseminated an article that meant absolutely nothing, and it got taken seriously in various media? Good, because I don't remember the story well enough to Google it...

Have you ever noticed that Googling almost any 5-letter string that is pronounceable in English results in an Urban Dictionary definition? It's bizarre. So here is a little game - really more of an idle pastime. Think up five random and...

My son gave me this brainteaser yesterday and I'm proud to say I solved it: There are three cards placed face-down in front of you - one jack and two aces. You don't know which cards are which. You must pick a card but you don't get to see the...

In Steve Martin's poignant and delightful book "The Pleasure of My Company", there is a marvelous description of how the narrator decides to complete an entire road trip uttering only phrases that do not use the letter "e". His success at this...

Don't have time to do a write up now, but wanted to get picks on the record before the season officially began. Rays 95-67 Red Sox (WC)91-71 Yankees 90-72 Blue Jays 81-81 Orioles 78-84

We should probably finish these off given the season starts in 9 hours or so. The Tigers and Indians were all set to battle it out for central supremacy last year, but that is why they play the games. The "1000" run Tigers got off to a...

Down to the last couple weeks, so we should probably move on to the AL. The NL threads, particularly the NL East, can still use more entries. Last time on the "Adventures of Ichiro and Enemies" or "Wait, they only have to beat three teams and...

Anyone up for a game of Assassins? Everyone who plays gets a word and a target. If the target types the word in any form, they're considered killed and the successful assassin takes on the corpse's word and target. But, and my but is very big,...

I have no idea how well this will work here if it will work at all. They used to play it on the dope sometimes. Everyone is sorted onto two teams and each post is considered a pass. If three players from the same team post sequentially, it is...

Pretty simple. Someone posts a quote and everyone tries to guess what tv show, book, movie, whatever, it came from. The person who gets it right posts the next reference. I'll start with an easy one. "Let me explain, no there is too much, let...

This is like mastermind or whatever with words. I have chosen a word and replaced all the letters with blanks. Look, there it is! -------- You have to find out what the word is. In order to do that you must post a word with the same number...

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http://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html This annoying game. If he were real, I pity his face.

I'm either going to put the hoodoo on my team here, or seem like a prophet in 3 months, but the football "Incredible Dream" is still on. With City still competing in the UEFA Cup, and Man United on the trail of a possible 5-timer, there is a...