BUY or SELL: All things considered (coaches, coaching, S&C, alignment, players maturing, new players, everything), this team is 8 points per game better than last year’s team?
(Buy) The Longhorns were +0.4 last year in point differential per game. The 2017 Longhorns will be better than +8.4 for the season.
well, i asked this question with a mind toward seeing what the consensus opinion is. I think an 8 point improvement is reasonable, and i wanted to see what the record would be applying 8 points a game retroactively to last years schedule. the result is 10-2, which appears to be close to the emerging consensus on OB in the various prediction threads I've seen with 9-3 and 10-2 becoming the most popular forecasts these days. I hope it pans out this way.
I realize its a very imprecise proxy, but it does seem to reflect a growing optimism amongst the faithful but is still at odds with the vegas predictions of 7.5 wins (unless that's changed) so we'll see whether it comes to pass or not.
(Buy) The Longhorns were +0.4 last year in point differential per game. The 2017 Longhorns will be better than +8.4 for the season.
well, i asked this question with a mind toward seeing what the consensus opinion is. I think an 8 point improvement is reasonable, and i wanted to see what the record would be applying 8 points a game retroactively to last years schedule. the result is 10-2, which appears to be close to the emerging consensus on OB in the various prediction threads I've seen with 9-3 and 10-2 becoming the most popular forecasts these days. I hope it pans out this way.
I realize its a very imprecise proxy, but it does seem to reflect a growing optimism amongst the faithful but is still at odds with the vegas predictions of 7.5 wins (unless that's changed) so we'll see whether it comes to pass or not.