okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Monday, March 05, 2007
Answering a couple of emails
I described Saturday's course as "a classic Peggy Dickison course." This morning I had an email message wondering what I meant.
Peggy has a consistent course setting style. She likes to set legs where you have to cross over a hill and then enter the top of a reentrant or ditch. It can be tricky because you can easily get off line a bit and come into the wrong feature or be unsure if the feature is to your left of right.
Controls 4, 6 and 9 on the map above are good examples.
NCAA basketball
I also got an unexpected email wondering about NCAA basketball picks.
My favorite team is, of course, the Kansas Jayhawks. I'll pick them to win it all.
My favorite source for college basketball info is kenpom.com. Kenpom.com has lots of great stuff - check out the ratings and stats. The page has loads of interesting stuff and it'll take a while to make sense of the different stats. But spend a bit of time poking around and reading the explanation of the stats and the preview of the Big 12 season (PDF) to get an idea of the information you can find on Kenpom.com.
You could do a lot worse than picking your NCAA brackets based on nothing more than the Kenpom.com ratings.
