Matt Holthe's Fleeting Thoughts

Another year for the golf majors is complete. I've been comparing Tiger Woods to Jack Nicklaus for several years now (ever since it was a "foregone conclusion" that Tiger would break Jack's record of 18 major titles). Tiger has now competed in 70 majors as a professional. Here's how they stand after 70 major starts: Tiger - 14 wins, 6 second place finishes, 24 top 3 finishes (14+6+4 others), 31 top 5 finishes, and 38 top 10 finishes. Jack (and here is where it's hard to believe just how good he was) - 15 wins, 14 second place finishes, 38 top 3 finishes, 45 top 5 finishes, and 54 top 10 finishes. 77% of the time, Jack was in the top 10. Tiger's been in the top 10 54% of the time. And very close to winning (top 3)? Jack 54%, Tiger 34%. More than half the time, Jack was in the top 3 of a major. That's amazing. At this same point in their careers, Tiger is 1 major win behind Jack. And it doesn't get any easier. For Tiger next year (and, by the...

Even though the football season hasn't started yet, I'm getting ready for the NCAA basketball season. There's a blog that I follow that went through several NCAA early season tournaments. I was able to take the information and create the neutral court information for those games. This is done so that when the games do get played, my system will know if the game was played on a neutral court and where it was played. Sometimes I miss some games and have to back track after the fact, but hopefully this preparation gets most of the games. The NCAA football games and NFL games (London) are much easier to handle - there's only a handle of games on neutral fields until the bowl season at the end of the football year. I did those in an afternoon a few weeks ago.