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12-20-2016, 10:53 PM
Play the KSR Hall of Fame Game Contest: Kentucky vs. Louisville
1. Predict the Kentucky margin of victory (+) OR loss (-). If you believe that Kentucky will lose, make sure that you make it clearly known with a -- [minus sign], or something else.
2. Predict the game high scorer, AND the total number of points he will score in the game. NOTE--it does not have to be a Kentucky player for this KSR point.
3. Over/Under: "3": Rebounding will be a big key in this year's version of Kentucky and Louisville's in-state war, unrivaled in it's intensity and potential for physicality. On the year thus far, Louisville is besting opponents on the boards by a margin of 9.3. Kentucky has also been superior to it's opponents, by a margin of 6.5. More or less, UL's average positive rebounding margin is 3 per game better than UK's.
How will it go in this year's game. Predict "Over" (+), "Under" (-), or "Push" (0) 3 rebounds for UL over UK, meaning, for example, if you believe UK will out-rebound UL by 3, you would predict "Under, 6" or "-6"; another example... if you think UL will out-rebound UK by 5, you would predict "Over, 2" or "+2".
4. "State Defense": Both Coaches, Calipari and Pitino, have been, statistically, two of the very best defensive coaches in all of college basketball over the past ten years. This year, UL is averaging 7.5 steals per game, 7.2 blocks per game, and they create 4.6 more turnovers than they commit per game. UK is averaging 7.1 steals per game, 7.1 blocks per game, and they create 6.2 more turnovers than they commit per game.
Predict which team will have the highest combined number of steals, blocks and + or - in turnover margin, and what that overall number will be after accounting for turnover margin, be it positive or negative (meaning only ONE team can win the turnover "battle" or the teams can tie, but the relative turnover margin must be calculated to get the proper number to complete this game point).
For example, if UK has 8 blocks, 5 steals, and they force 2 more turnovers than they commit, that would be a total number, for UK, of "15", due to the superior turnover margin. Continuing the same example, if UL has 6 blocks, 8 steals, yet we know from part one of this example that they commited 2 more turnovers than they forced, that would be a total number, for UL, of "12", due to subtracting their inferior turnover margin. Thus the answer, using this overall example would be "UK, 15". You need to select which team will win the battle of defenses for the state, and how big their total combined number of blocks, steals, adding or subtracting, as the case may be, their relative turnover margin to get that total number.
Tiebreaker: UK's overall field goal percentage, as a team, for the game, rounded off to ONE decimal point. For example, if they shoot 49.76 percent, you would predict "49.8%".
Good luck and GO BIG BLUE!!!!!!!!!
1. Predict the Kentucky margin of victory (+) OR loss (-). If you believe that Kentucky will lose, make sure that you make it clearly known with a -- [minus sign], or something else.
2. Predict the game high scorer, AND the total number of points he will score in the game. NOTE--it does not have to be a Kentucky player for this KSR point.
3. Over/Under: "3": Rebounding will be a big key in this year's version of Kentucky and Louisville's in-state war, unrivaled in it's intensity and potential for physicality. On the year thus far, Louisville is besting opponents on the boards by a margin of 9.3. Kentucky has also been superior to it's opponents, by a margin of 6.5. More or less, UL's average positive rebounding margin is 3 per game better than UK's.
How will it go in this year's game. Predict "Over" (+), "Under" (-), or "Push" (0) 3 rebounds for UL over UK, meaning, for example, if you believe UK will out-rebound UL by 3, you would predict "Under, 6" or "-6"; another example... if you think UL will out-rebound UK by 5, you would predict "Over, 2" or "+2".
4. "State Defense": Both Coaches, Calipari and Pitino, have been, statistically, two of the very best defensive coaches in all of college basketball over the past ten years. This year, UL is averaging 7.5 steals per game, 7.2 blocks per game, and they create 4.6 more turnovers than they commit per game. UK is averaging 7.1 steals per game, 7.1 blocks per game, and they create 6.2 more turnovers than they commit per game.
Predict which team will have the highest combined number of steals, blocks and + or - in turnover margin, and what that overall number will be after accounting for turnover margin, be it positive or negative (meaning only ONE team can win the turnover "battle" or the teams can tie, but the relative turnover margin must be calculated to get the proper number to complete this game point).
For example, if UK has 8 blocks, 5 steals, and they force 2 more turnovers than they commit, that would be a total number, for UK, of "15", due to the superior turnover margin. Continuing the same example, if UL has 6 blocks, 8 steals, yet we know from part one of this example that they commited 2 more turnovers than they forced, that would be a total number, for UL, of "12", due to subtracting their inferior turnover margin. Thus the answer, using this overall example would be "UK, 15". You need to select which team will win the battle of defenses for the state, and how big their total combined number of blocks, steals, adding or subtracting, as the case may be, their relative turnover margin to get that total number.
Tiebreaker: UK's overall field goal percentage, as a team, for the game, rounded off to ONE decimal point. For example, if they shoot 49.76 percent, you would predict "49.8%".
Good luck and GO BIG BLUE!!!!!!!!!