I've always been quite the stats Nerd.  When I was a kid 9-12 years old, I would shoot free throws into my Nerf Hoop on the wall, but to administer the element of "stat-Nerd-iness" I would make up schedules for my college team (usually Notre Dame), and shoot free throws.  If I made all three, I won convincingly.  If I made 2 of 3, I won minimally.  If I missed more than I made, I lost, etc....  I would record all my wins and losses on a sheet of graph paper; onto the schedule I had made before I started. I would later add the element of "playing ranked opponents or playing good teams on the road," and move the strip back, to make it tougher to win.  
After a while, I accumulated a ton of irrelevant stacks of papers with all these schedules and fake scores on it.  I would do similar Nerdy-stat stuff for baseball and football.  Now, I find myself doing the same (albeit, much more tamed down now).  But that brings me to the subject heading question - "how in to it are you?"  

• Do you read your play by play report of your game and act like an annoucer (even throwing in a little crowd noise when your team goes on a roll?
• Do you save the win/loss records of your teams each year?
• Do you find yourself talking to yourself sometimes (usually after games), acting like you're in the post-game press conference, answering the questions the reporters had about the game?
• Do you find that winning and losing sets the tone for your day?
• Do you love the recruiting time more than the non-recruiting time because you get an update every three hours?
• Lol, I'm sure there's other quirks I have while playing Hoops Dynasty, but I'd like to hear yours...

I've gotten REALLY into D1 recruiting lately.  I've been keeping long recruiting diaries like this one and to go along with those I keep a recruit tracker with predictions of where all these recruits will go.  In the same thread as the recruit tracker, I also have all the D1 recruits I have ever signed (almost, I think I missed a year).  It's very enjoyable to go back and look.

Yeah, I'd say you're a Stat Nerd kimble...  

Yes to saving records and setting the tone for the day, the latter way too much.  I mean if I lose in the NT on a weekday morning (results are out at 11-ish a.m. Pacific time) I should probably just leave work, I am unproductive and and probably a whiny little, ahem, person for at least a few hours.

Definitely sets the tone for the rest of the day for me, but usually only if its a bad loss.  I lost one game in the final second of the game.  With one second left on the clock my center fouled a guard shooting a three pointer.  Of course the guard made the three  and the free throw.  The rest of the day was a complete wash.  I feel bad for my brother who had to listen to most of my whining, but nobody I saw that day deserved my bad attitude.  I was even ****** at my fictional player!

I save any 'personality notes' from recruiting (although I think that may have recently been eliminated).  I pretend that the personality notes and work ethic of my players contribute to their personality.  Then I often imagine how those players would react in post-game conferences.  I've purposefully signed lower work ethic kids to have a "we're talking bout practice moment".

I'm not much of a morning person and noticeably struggle to wake up on days that I don't have a game. 

If I play someone in the top 50 rpi I think its a huge game and cant stop thinking about it.

Posted by ldhmnh on 9/19/2012 7:08:00 PM (view original):
I've always been quite the stats Nerd.  When I was a kid 9-12 years old, I would shoot free throws into my Nerf Hoop on the wall, but to administer the element of "stat-Nerd-iness" I would make up schedules for my college team (usually Notre Dame), and shoot free throws.  If I made all three, I won convincingly.  If I made 2 of 3, I won minimally.  If I missed more than I made, I lost, etc....  I would record all my wins and losses on a sheet of graph paper; onto the schedule I had made before I started. I would later add the element of "playing ranked opponents or playing good teams on the road," and move the strip back, to make it tougher to win.  
After a while, I accumulated a ton of irrelevant stacks of papers with all these schedules and fake scores on it.  I would do similar Nerdy-stat stuff for baseball and football.  Now, I find myself doing the same (albeit, much more tamed down now).  But that brings me to the subject heading question - "how in to it are you?"  

• Do you read your play by play report of your game and act like an annoucer (even throwing in a little crowd noise when your team goes on a roll?
• Do you save the win/loss records of your teams each year?
• Do you find yourself talking to yourself sometimes (usually after games), acting like you're in the post-game press conference, answering the questions the reporters had about the game?
• Do you find that winning and losing sets the tone for your day?
• Do you love the recruiting time more than the non-recruiting time because you get an update every three hours?
• Lol, I'm sure there's other quirks I have while playing Hoops Dynasty, but I'd like to hear yours...

Haha I used to do the same thing but I would actually play each game, being each time, but I always won ;) (except replace Notre Dame with Michigan. GO BLUE!!)

I act like an anouncer with crowd noise in some big games.  I've done some imaginary press conferences.  I often get mad at my players during the box scores also (Ex: PALOS, GET YOUR HEAD IN THE GAME, DON"T SHOOT WHEN YOUR DOUBLE-TEAMED, PASS!)

I have a spreadsheet that tracks the stats of every player on every team every season.  I read every line of the pbp. 

Sometimes, when I am alone in the car, I pretend to make recruiting calls to imaginary basketball players.  I am totally sure that I can stop.  Really.

tkimble - I enjoyed seeing my Davidson team on the list for Patrick Surface.

I would say that winning or losing sets the tone for my day.... the NT is a heart breaker when I lose. I remember the year I lost in the D3 championship I probably spent a good 2 hours game planning and looking at every possible stat only to lose.

I like it Kimble 

Every now and then (especially if we are in the NT) I tell my gf how my team is doing, why this player did this or why I recruited this other player. Recruiting time is a double edged sword for me - I have wicked insomnia most of the time, but during recruiting I hate to miss any cycles ever - so IF I can sleep, I make sure to get up at the 5 and a half hour mark (go to sleep just after a cycle runs, sleep 5.5 and get up to see if anything happened/make necessary moves before the next cycle happens...) 

Occasionally I write stuff up like I'm a sports writer for the team like this, one time I pretended I was the player.

Good stuff.  Man there was a great thread of this sort in the sim baseball forums some years back, if I have time today I'll try to find it, might be gone though.

I once played "Don't Stop Believing" on the cpu before reading a NT championship title game play-by-play.  It was for Amherst in Smith.  We blew a 17-point second-half lead and lost by 1.  I remember that feeling, believeing that I understood better than I had before the word "deflated" as applied to a person, I really just felt like all the air went out of me.

So later when I made a champ. game (in Knight) I found a different over-the-top 80's song for pregame, "Eye of the Tiger."  And we won!  So then I played "Celebration" on the cpu, with the volume, um, loud.

Yup, that happened.

I'm obsessive about recruiting and gameplanning, and check the forums often. But I don't read the pbp, save stats or track progress. The most I do is save player ratings once the NT is done, use that to see how my players improved in the offseason, then delete it.

any time i win a championship (which is not very often these days, but ive done it since the beginning), i always blast queen's we are the champions, usually about 5 or 6 times, until my wife threatens to kill me. i often will load up on bourbon in celebration of making the NT game, so if i win, i can celebrate in style. and if not, well, i can mourn appropriately. so occasionally, i will join in with freddy mercury, and then i get to play it about twice before the wife steps in :) the fact that she is always sleeping at 2 in the morning doesn't really go my way, but you know, i make due.

i generally dont give pep talks or anything, but during the NT, i will get pretty into games (especially if sobriety has long since went out the window). my wife no longer comes in the room when i explode in, "YOU MOTHER ******, WHAT THE **** ARE YOU THINKING!!", "OH MY GOD, YOU PIECE OF ****" or similar several times in rapid succession. those are the bad games. occasionally i have realistic 3 point celebrations (the kind you have as a fan at a big game, not as a player) as well. ever since i looked out the window mid game and saw my drunken neighbor (he was robbed, hog tied for 2 hours during the robbery, not long ago - so hes kind of over the deep end lately) standing on his lawn, looking around totally discombobulated, with his double barrel 12 gauge shotgun over his shoulder, i make sure to actually close my windows before reading any NT pbps. im not sure if i roused him with my yelling, or if he was just having one of his 2 am drunken strolls with a shotgun over his shoulder (they were a pretty common thing for a while there), but i figured i better err on the side of caution :) and just to note, i really don't live in a crazy whacked out area or anything. im not big on signing my life away for X number of years (especially when X is 30) to own something, so i like to live cheaply, but not at the risk of safety. we actually live in a pretty safe area for cincinnati. its just sad my neighbor went through such a messed up ordeal. hes doing better now though, and its been months since ive seen him outside with his shotgun, or outside wasted at all. and the crack whores who we never saw before the ordeal, who became a multiple times a week thing, they are gone, too. but i still havent stopped closing my windows, that one time did kind of freak me out :)