New Staff Announcement: Warden11
by Owen Kemp on Mar 8, 2010 7:30 AM CST
in Rockchalk's Ramblings
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It's always been my opinion that RCT gets its appeal from the fact that it's a site powered by the entire fan community involved. The readers, the fanposters and the every day commentors are what make this place what it is. The inside jokes, the hopefully educated and civil discussion and the ability to look at things from different perspectives is something I've always found unique and enjoyable.
With that in mind it just makes sense from time to time to add to the RCT staff directly from the same group of people that has made this place so great. Today Warden11 joins that group as we will be adding Warden as one of our contributing authors here at RCT.
Warden has been around Rock Chalk Talk for a little under two years now. In that time he's been an active commenter and brought a fair amount to the community in the way of fanposts and fanshots.
Over the last two months Warden has become a bit of a statistical guru here at Rock Chalk Talk beginning with his modified basketball +/- system known to us here as "Warden's +/-". His tempo analysis, conference comparisons and pre and postgame +/- reports have given those of us a little more mathematically challenged a different way to look at areas of the game that we probably often wondered about.
With his consistent analysis and contributions in mind, we've asked Warden to jump aboard as a contributing author and more specifically as our "stat man" so to speak here at Rock Chalk Talk.
Warden's forte is probably going to be on the basketball court, but he also hopes to track and contribute to the baseball discussion and hopefully come fall we'll find some areas he can add to the statistical analysis on the football field.
As always, if anyone has any suggestions, news, story ideas or areas of interest feel free to email myself (denverjhawk@hotmail.com), KC (kcsince88@yahoo.com) and now Warden (warden_11@yahoo.com) with your thoughts, questions or suggestions.
Congrats to Warden, welcome aboard and we're looking forward to your continued contributions here at RCT.
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Congrats, Warden!!!
Nice move by the powers-that-be. Warden clearly deserves this, and I’m sure he’ll do us all proud. Good luck, Warden!
Operation Final Four is a go. Proceed to target.
completely agree
I’m surprised (although not so much anymore) and excited to read thoughtful and interesting commentary every day here.
Congrats, Warden, and keep up the good work!
by DCJayhawk0208 on Mar 8, 2010 7:44 AM CST up reply actions
Warden, you're the man.
A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.
Oh crap
That was supposed to be in sarcasm font.
Does that font not work in titles? Hmm
Anyways congrats Warden!
nope doesn't work in the title
53 Conference Championships!! and now 6 IN A ROW!!! Holy Hell...Good Luck with That!!
Welcome aboard Warden.
The job doesn’t pay much, but it will reward you with the respect of the sporting world, dates and an enormously time consuming hobby.
www.rockchalktalk.com for pretty good KU baseball coverage
ding ding ding...
I think you’ve summed this up very well JQ.
53 Conference Championships!! and now 6 IN A ROW!!! Holy Hell...Good Luck with That!!
Just don't keel over and die on us, old man.
I’m for shit with numbers.
"Not to be cliché or anything, but I’m Jayhawk born and Jayhawk bred and when I die I’ll be Jayhawk dead." - Ovechwin
And, congrats.
"Not to be cliché or anything, but I’m Jayhawk born and Jayhawk bred and when I die I’ll be Jayhawk dead." - Ovechwin
by Andy Edwards on Mar 8, 2010 10:40 AM CST up reply actions
Thanks to everyone here.
I’ll try to keep the material coming and hopefully give us some things to discuss and talk about.
As Denver said, if there is anything you’d like to see or that you’ve seen elsewhere- share it with one of us and we’ll take a look.
Glad I came, just wish I hadn't stayed so long.
People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
Except now,
instead of saying “oh maybe you could try the stat this way if you get the chance”, I can say
Change it this way now, it's your job!
Congrats
Zapp Brannigan/Dayton Moore quote of the day: "[my most important sabermetric stats are] runs scored and runs driven in"
by SagehenMacGyver47 on Mar 8, 2010 1:37 PM CST up reply actions
Being a sufferer of ADD and ADHD
and trying to focus on stats and numbers, I also concur.
"Not to be cliché or anything, but I’m Jayhawk born and Jayhawk bred and when I die I’ll be Jayhawk dead." - Ovechwin
by Andy Edwards on Mar 8, 2010 11:02 AM CST up reply actions
I'm so bad at math
I had my little brother (college student) crunch some budget figures for me with something I was doing at work…
Shhhh don’t tell
You don't need to be good at math
to be a good numbers guy. Look at me. My degree is in music…
Man crush. Sherron.
Congrats, Warden.
Well-deserved.
And as someone who’s been named a contributing author on a site, let me give you one piece of advice:
EXPLOIT YOUR NEWFOUND POWER FOR EVERYTHING YOU CAN.
"Don’t want to spend my night waiting in line unless it’s for more beer."
--EssBee, on LoneStarBall, Jan. 21, 2010
Congrats!
Can somebody add an “11” to this picture?
"Here are our top priorities: recruit, beat Missouri, recruit, win the North, recruit, win the Big 12, and in most cases if you win the Big 12 then you're playing for a National Championship. And then we're going to recruit."
by KennyGregoryRockThaCradle on Mar 8, 2010 1:17 PM CST reply actions
Ryan Bingham wins an Oscar
and Warden gets promoted to the big time? Very nice. Congrats.
by hunter s. royal on Mar 8, 2010 10:08 PM CST reply actions
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