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2010 MLB Draft Results: Doing Our Homework With Jim Bowden

Posted: 9th June 2010 by WhatIfSports.com in MLB
Jim Bowden explains the ins and outs of MLB's Draft Americans thrive on instant gratification. We still want our pizza delivered in 30 minutes or less, our coffee to hit the bottom of our cups in 60 seconds and oil changed in 15 minutes or it’s free. Our technology has evolved to the point where we can demand movies to play on our television on our watch. We crave news to break ...

Fantasy Fever: Minor Leaguer Sayonara Strasburg Is a Good Pick

Posted: 25th May 2010 by WhatIfSports.com in MLB
You may have heard some rumblings about this Stephen Strasburg guy. Allegedly, he's pretty good. Check that: he must be good, as usually the only time a Washington National warrants media attention is in relation to a comedy of errors (cough, cough, Nyjer Morgan , cough, cough). But from some of the trade proposals I've viewed in retaining Strasburg's services, you would think this guy was the mutant lovechild of Sandy ...

Fantasy Fever From WhatIfSports

Posted: 18th May 2010 by WhatIfSports.com in MLB
Hideki Matsui . Carlos Lee. Scott Kazmir . Javier Vazquez. Pat Burrell . At one point, all could be called "Seabiscuits", fantasy studs that owners could ride to rotisserie glory. In 2010, all are running like Barbaro. Pause. Yes, that Barbaro. Mid-May has always been the time of year when fantasy owners are forced to face an inevitable predicament: stay with struggling stars or cut them loose. Players, teams, and media will maintain it's ...

MLB Power Rankings: Empire Strikes Back in NYC

Posted: 10th May 2010 by WhatIfSports.com in MLB
WhatIfSports.com utilizes its award-winning baseball simulation engine to present the most comprehensive and unbiased ranking possible of all 30 teams in baseball each Monday during the regular season. To come up with the rankings, using only their statistical performance to date this season, each team is simulated against every other team 100 times (50 at home and 50 away) so that all five pitchers in the current rotation start ten ...

Is Lebron James Really The “Most Valuable Player?”

Posted: 6th May 2010 by WhatIfSports.com in NBA
The back-to-back MVP meets back-to-back MRIs. LeBron James' elbow is the hottest topic aside from a 17-year-old Phillies' fan craving his 15-seconds of fame only to learn the side effects of a tasering the hard way. You're right dad, face planting into the turf of Citizens Bank Park was a once in a lifetime experience. Eleven wins shy of his first NBA title, and surrounded by the strongest supporting cast of his ...

NFL Draft Rookie Review: The Impact Players for 2010

Posted: 27th April 2010 by WhatIfSports.com in NFL
The 2010 NFL Draft competed with the Mets-Cardinals 20-inning affair, and any Yankees-Red Sox match-up this season, as the longest sporting event of the year. The 14-plus hours of coverage spread over three days fed NFL fans the offseason nourishment they craved in the form of chicken wings, gallons of brew, upside, downside, playmakers, and what-if potential. Now football fans must suffer through months of cliche, OTAs, mini-camps, Brett Favre breaking news, ...

WhatIfSports.com Simulated NBA Playoff Preview

Posted: 16th April 2010 by WhatIfSports.com in NBA
Whatifsports.com presents its 2010 NBA Playoff Preview. Below is the main bracket and round-by-round series breakdown. To the right of the bracket is our stats table explaining each NBA playoff team's chances of winning each round including the NBA Finals. We simulated the entire playoff 2,001 times. Home court is taken into account. Average wins and losses per series are indicated in the bracket. Team-by-team breakdowns are below the bracket. To ...

2010 NHL Playoff Preview From WhatIfSports.com

Posted: 13th April 2010 by WhatIfSports.com in NHL
Whatifsports.com presents its 2010 NHL Playoff Preview. We've redesigned the bracket layout for easier navigation. Below is the main bracket and round-by-round series breakdown. To the right of the bracket is our stats table explaining each team's chances of winning each round including the Stanley Cup. The way our NHL Bracket Preview works is similar to our WIS NCAA Bracket Preview where the entire bracket is simulated 2,000 times. For each ...

The New York Knicks’ Finals Teams Revisited By WhatIfSports.com

Posted: 9th April 2010 by WhatIfSports.com in NBA
Eighty-three days and counting until the New York Knicks can officially start wooing LeBron James to MSG in the heart of NYC. For the past eleven years, 1999 being the last season the Knicks reached the NBA Finals, the revolving door of head coaches has been spinning (to the tune of seven new faces roaming the sidelines) as passionate Knicks' fans continue to ask, 'When will our franchise be saved?' Neither Pat ...

BREAKING NEWS: Lebron James to Play In NFL

Posted: 1st April 2010 by WhatIfSports.com in NFL
Whatifsports.com has received the following press release from LRMR, LeBron James' marketing group: LeBron James Press Release Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James has astounded the sports world by revealing his intentions to pursue a football career in the NFL and hopes to be signed by a team prior to the start of the 2010 season. "It's something that's always been in the back of ...