Jason Lisk

Content and analysis at @PoolGenius and @TeamRankings. Otherwise busy with four kids.

[Jason Lisk @JasonLisk]

I have bad news for all the golfers planning on heading to Toronto for the #CanadianOpen next week. You’re too late. It’s underway. The AI overview is on it.

[Jason Lisk @JasonLisk]

Okay, this is actually insane. The most dominant stretch ever is over 4 rounds of playoffs.

[Lev Akabas @LevAkabas]

The New York Knicks have outscored their opponents by 272 points in the past 12 games

That's the best 12-game stretch from any team in NBA history, regular season or playoffs

[Jason Lisk @JasonLisk]

@BobFuton it is late career Chris Paul, rookie Dirk, Miami Heat Shaq.

The 2006-07 Heat went 44-38 with Dwyane Wade + 34-year old Shaq, 36-year old Mourning, and 38-year old Gary Payton.

[Jason Lisk @JasonLisk]

I prefer to play 82-0 as "41-41," the quest to build as famous/recognizable of a lineup as possible that goes exactly 41-41 and limps into the playoffs as the 8 seed.

How good / bad of a team can you build?

I just pulled this one off

[Jason Lisk @JasonLisk]

@JustinMacmahan I think it's actually more fun if you use it to try to build famous teams with a lineup casual fans would recognize, that go as close to 41-41 as possible and limp into the 8 seed.

I made this one a little too bad.

[Jason Lisk @JasonLisk]

@sportsrapport I can get to the KC games in 20 minutes if prices are down but am also perfectly fine watching on TV if they want to try to maintain these prices.

[Jason Lisk @JasonLisk]

We are gonna look back at this in 30 years like the Jeff Bagwell for Larry Anderson trade

[Megan Swift @mgswift7]

Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium is set to trade gorillas with Boston’s Franklin Park Zoo.

Frankie, Pittsburgh’s 7-year-old male western lowland gorilla, will head to Boston, and in exchange, Boston will send 33-year-old Little Joe the silverback @TribLIVE 🦍
https://t.co/qU732Imrfg

[Jason Lisk @JasonLisk]

@jmcgrathgolf @PoolGenius @RickRunGood Hopefully you picked them in the right weeks

[Jason Lisk @JasonLisk]

@ChaseDaniel You should be happy the AI isn’t overtaking us in making sports debate lists. We all remember when Kurt Warner won a Super Bowl and then became a Heisman candidate.

[Jason Lisk @JasonLisk]

This video has been updated with her name, thanks @hudl

https://t.co/N5Tmg4UlFV

[Jason Lisk @JasonLisk]

Hey, my daughter made the Top 5 girls soccer highlights on @Hudl for April, even if she is not identified correctly.

That’s @harper_lisk of @BSHSWSoccer with the save at #2!

https://t.co/murv3tsMvW

[Jason Lisk @JasonLisk]

@Mike_kim714 We've finally found it. A horrendous take by SAS.

[Jason Lisk @JasonLisk]

@tsnmike @Mikeysurf @MarchMadnessMBB Now there's about a day of turn around for people to review the brackets on Monday and have to make picks by Tuesday morning? A segment just won't bother if it is more complicated. Or, they get ignored but it lessens the specialness of that Thursday to have full days before.

[Jason Lisk @JasonLisk]

@tsnmike @Mikeysurf @MarchMadnessMBB As a company that has products related to NCAA bracket contests, this is mildly concerning. Brackets drive interest from casual fans. I would say the majority of pools, not all, ignore the "First Four." But turning it into a bunch of games starting early on Tue/Wed creates risk.

[Jason Lisk @JasonLisk]

@SethBurn Almost certainly. But someone there should realize that Texas vs. Stephen F. Austin is actually a more compelling matchup for fans than Virginia Tech vs. West Virginia (and Texas would be deciding that was their best path vs relying on committee).

[Jason Lisk @JasonLisk]

The worst possible thing the NCAA can do with the 76-team field and automatically just put in the next teams down, so we get 45 at-larges ending at an uninspiring 18-14 with a losing conference record.

So that's probably what will happen. But I have an idea to make it exciting.

[Jason Lisk @JasonLisk]

This creates some drama, and intrigue. Will a bubble team choose to play their way in H2H on Saturday, or take their chances with the committee?

It creates some incentives for some mid-majors to move their title games up (the Saturday ones get swallowed up by high major games).

[Jason Lisk @JasonLisk]

Seeding is based on NET ranking (best NET of the group vs. lowest, etc.) with only exceptions being swaps to avoid conference rematches.

The matchups are set by 9 am ET Friday, teams travel and play starting at noon on Saturday.