Author: Chris Ford

Okay, so I recently moved to Europe for work.  Of course, the down side of that is that I had to stay up until 4 AM to watch the Super Bowl, and I’m largely excluded from national pasttimes like the annual “Stop Working and Pretend That You’re Working But Really You’re Streaming Video on your…

10: University of Illinois-Chicago vs Yale, November 21. 173 fans in attendance. (Men Against Breast Cancer Classic):  This is the first of many “Classics” that we will see in this list.  With only 173 people in attendance, you have to wonder how well the economics of some of these tournaments work (okay, okay, it’s television rights).…

  It’s that time of the year again: we’re roughly 75% through with the baseball season, and it’s time to talk playoff scenarios.  While visions of magic numbers dance through many fans’ heads, the MLB will undoubtedly be lamenting (behind closed doors, of course) the lack of large market teams that are on pace to…

In the eternal struggle for gaining fans, hockey has run into a few problems.  Most of them have been overcome through various rules changes, much to the chagrin of traditionalists.  The addition of the shootout and the trapezoid, and the removal of the two line pass restriction being the largest.  However, in doing all of…

With two of the first four games complete, here are the official (wins method) predictions for favorites in the NCAA tournament.  Unsurprisingly, we see an undefeated Wichita State at number one, a choice which the points method finds foolish (Wichita State being ranked 19th in the points ranking system). Beyond that, there are few surprises,…

It’s almost February, and for most of us, we can spend our days looking forward to March Madness, with its theatrics and Cinderellas. Those whose team will not be participants in March will usually have at least one fellow conference member to cheer on (or root against). However, there are some fans who have suffered…

The new overtime rules (though not entirely too new at this point) are intriguing, for sure.  Once both teams have been given the right to “possess or have the opportunity to possess the ball,” then the game turns into sudden death.  Prior to that, a touchdown wins the game, while a field goal gives the…

A fairly boring week in College Football ahead of us, as the game of the week is arguably Stanford at USC.  Interestingly enough, the spread is a mere 3 points in Stanford’s favor, with USC only having 1 win against an AMSTS top 40 team (Arizona) and getting throttled by the only Top 25 team…

Week 11 brings a flurry of challenging games for the top contenders.  Baylor faces Oklahoma, Alabama faces LSU, and Oregon and Stanford battle for what will likely be the Pac 12 North crown.  Meanwhile, ACC favorite Florida State takes on a terrible* Wake Forest team (* = much to the chagrin of Mrs. AMSTS, a…

I’m going to go out there and say something that’s not too earth shattering. I never really expected much from this site.  Just a place where I could keep idle thoughts and my computer rankings.  Well, those, and the drinking games.  It all started with Joe Morgan back when I was in college, when a…