Bonnie Blair won three consecutive gold medals in the Olympics. What was the sport and the years she won?
OT: Sports trivia part 2.
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Win Shares is a stat that has data available all the way back to the 1995-96 season (sports-reference.com). Who leads the NCAA in all-time Win Shares?
If you're not familiar with Win Shares, it's a metric that is designed to estimate how much a player has contributed to a team's total number of wins.
If you're not familiar with Win Shares, it's a metric that is designed to estimate how much a player has contributed to a team's total number of wins.
Tyler Zeller leads in OWS over the past 10 years.
Opponents Wins Shares, we don't win without his two points...
Opponents Wins Shares, we don't win without his two points...
Good guesses. Battier is #3 and Hansbrough is #5.
Just a couple clues about this guy: 15-year NBA vet that never played in the Final Four.
Not JJ. He's actually pretty far down the list - at #28.
The stat only accounts for Duncan's last two years. If the stat was tracked during his first two years, there's a good chance he would be the leader.
Here's one more clue: His school has never made it to the Final Four
Not Paul, he only played two years at Wake. This guy played 4 years of college basketball - and it wasn't in the ACC.
Okay, previous question is still on the table. I'll throw in one more question, for good measure.
Sticking with men's college basketball. In the last 40 years, only 6 players have eclipsed 1,000 points in a single season. Name 2 of the 6 players.
Sticking with men's college basketball. In the last 40 years, only 6 players have eclipsed 1,000 points in a single season. Name 2 of the 6 players.
Partially right.
Not Glenn. Recall that the school he played for has never made it to a Final Four.
Close. Redick had 964 points in 2006; McDermott had 934 points in 2014.
Is Pete Maravich one of the 1000 point scores? I'm fairly certain Guru Gary is the win shares answer. Sky will back me up!
Maravich did eclipse 1,000 points. But it wasn't within the last 40 years.
We need to use the 1st. question as the official one to get a winner to ask the next question. Believe me when I say that if there a multiple questions going on its gonna be kaos. OFC
Yeah its getting confusing, and what about when 2 folks get 2 parts of an answer??? OFC
I agree but how to solve it I don't know. Right now I'm not sure if either of the current questions have been answered. That's what happens when you have multiple questions with multiple answers going on. Let's open it up to the guys who play the trivia game. Suggestions? What should we do? OFC
Well I think on multi-answer questions we need to clarify something: if someone for instance gets the right name or subject, etc and another person gets the year(s), sport or whatever, we need to decide who is up next between those two folks......Or better yet the questions could just be ONE ANSWER instead of MULTI-ANSWER....What do you guys think??? OFC
That would take care of it. That's the we played it when it 1st started 2 or 3 off seasons ago. I do like the 24 hour rule though. There are exceptions to that. Things happen when a poster may not be able to get back in 24 hours but that doesn't happen a lot. Exactly where do we stand right now on the win shares question ? Remember the second question doesn't apply. OFC
Sky,everyone respects you, and you really created the fun game so whatever you think- I am sure folks will approve! As far as the "win-shares" question, the answers are flying. I am glad you deleted the 2nd question, because as you said it makes for "chaos." OFC
Okay one question at a time. Some questions can have multiple answers for example how many Duke players have been national defensive player of the year and name them which is reasonable to but when you add what year it was and what player and school he played for came in second it gets complicated.I started this for a fun thing during the off season a few years ago for those who are into trivia. I know all posters don't participate and that's okay. I also like to keep the game moving as most of you know. Just have fun guys. That's what I try to do on all topics. I admit I can get a little off base but the reason I started posting years ago was because of some of the HOF posters we had back then who many are still posting. As I like to say to new posters have fun and don't take ourselves too serious. They are way too many issues going on in the world today that we need to take serious. Love this board and the posters. OFC
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Correct! You're up, acchoops!
And here are the guys that have eclipsed the 1,000 point barrier in the last 40 years:
1. Bo Kimble, 1131 points, 1989-1990, Loyola Marymount
2. Hersey Hawkins, 1125 points, 1987-1988, Bradley
3. Jimmer Fredette, 1068 points, 2010-2011, BYU
4. Kevin Bradshaw, 1054 points, 1990-1991, US International
5. Glenn Robinson, 1030 points, 1993-1994, Purdue
6. Hank Gathers, 1015 points, 1988-1989, Loyola Marymount
David West isn't a name that most people think of - and it didn't seem like anyone was getting it, even with the clues. I don't think it's particularly confusing, to be honest. In this scenario it's whoever gets one of the two questions first. I'd rather have a quick turnover of 4-6 hours between questions than sit on the same question for two days. That was my reasoning. But I'll try to stick to one question at a time in the future.
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