Eloquent Elo Examples

March 3rd, 2010

Engulfing

Expletives excluded

Easy-mode Enabled

Expert experience entailed

Editing expressly eluded

Exact equivalents…Empty

Engrossing ensnaring entertainment

Emotional enthrallment

Effortless enjoyment ensured

Enticingly enigmatic examples enclosed

Embarrassing errors erased

Emboldened empowerment effect expected

Everyone Eager?

Extremely Excited?

Evade Exits…

Enter

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UFC 110 Recap

February 22nd, 2010

Quick “spoiler alert” for those that still haven’t seen the fights or read the results or looked at the updated rankings…

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An attempt at speed ranting…

February 15th, 2010

Due to recent time constraints I’ve found myself in the annoying position of having more to rant about with less time to actually rant. That led me to pondering whether it’s possible for me to rant faster. Often while ranting I veer off on a tangent for several paragraphs before (occasionally) returning to the point.

My biggest fear is that by speedranting I’ll cross a fine line between ranting and raving. If I do cross such a line, please pretend this rant was called, “An attempt at speed raving” and that it was a huge success.

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Hybernation 2009 draws to a close

January 23rd, 2010

YYYYAAAAWWWWWWNNNNNNNNNNNNN

*sniff sniff…scratch scratch* OK I’m awake…what more do you want from me?

I hope everyone had a happy whatever they celebrated and accomplishes anything they have recently decided to do! (PC enough?)

As long as I don’t hit the snooze button and go back to sleep for another few weeks I’ll be doing a lot of updating (and a bit of ranting) over the next few days. Year end events (and the first few from this year) are updated and ready to go live.

MMA Strength of Schedule - Big Game Hunter

December 8th, 2009

Strength of Schedule in MMA seems to be a topic of increasing popularity. By far the biggest problem I see when MMA fans try to discuss Strength of Schedule though is that the people aren’t all talking about the same stat. I’ve discussed Strength of Schedule for MMA fighters before, but feel each approach should get its own write-up.

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TUF 10 Finale - Recap

December 6th, 2009

Wouldn’t it be nice to have an event where after it’s done we just talk about wins and losses? Here it is the day after the ultimate fighter finale and at best the winner of the season is the number three story. Seems kind of silly to me, so I’m going to start off talking about the winner…

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MMA Ranking Myth - Need big wins

December 2nd, 2009

Recently I’ve noticed a growing trend of people trying to claim someone can’t be “top 10″ because they haven’t beaten “top 10″ people. As a whole the term “top 10″ is incredibly flawed, but I’m going to try to navigate it as best I can during this rant while I explore this perception that some MMA fans have.

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MMA Ranking What If: Nog Vs Cain

December 1st, 2009

There is a situation brewing that I think is semi-interesting (slash) semi-retarded. I’m going to layout what I know, speculate on what I suspect, and then hopefully have someone set me straight…

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BJ Penn MMA Career BTN - Followup

November 28th, 2009

For those with a fever and the only cure is MORE BJ~!!!

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Current MMA Rankings Review - Welterweight

November 17th, 2009

Today I want to take a closer look at the current welterweight rankings in MMA.

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