batteh blog-o-rama

It’s that time of the year again. Don’t let the boss see you streaming the games as you “work”. The We Hate Tim league has been dominated by the Battehs so far:

John (2007)
Matty (2008)

So, here is your chance to be immortalized in We Hate Tim picking history. So let’s have another fun year in the 2009 version of the “We Hate Tim” league. Join the league, make your picks, and come back here to talk smack.

To enter, click the link below and read further for our league name and password (the usual, of course):

Our League

Or, if you have problems with the link above, enter through the main page:

Game Front: http://games.espn.go.com/tcmen/frontpage
Group: We Hate Tim
Password: timrocks

Ten entries are allowed so go ahead and use one to pick your underdog to go all the way. Also, be sure to come back here and join in the conversation through the NCAA tournament via the comments. Have fun!!

It’s that time of the year again. Time to constantly refresh your home page to see the latest scores, hide the streaming video when the boss comes by, and root like crazy for teams like University of Maryland- Baltimore County.

Last year we had a good time picking our teams and talking smack. I won’t remind you who was the picking champion but you can check out last year’s post to relive the fun. So let’s have another fun year in the 2008 version of the “We Hate Tim” league. To enter, click the link below and read further for our league name and password (the usual, of course):

Our League

Or, if you have problems with the link above, enter through the main page:

Game Front: http://games.espn.go.com/tcmen/frontpage
Group: We Hate Tim
Password: timrocks

Ten entries are allowed so go ahead and use one to pick your underdog to go all the way. Also, be sure to come back here and join in the conversation through the NCAA tournament via the comments. Have fun!!

Fire up the random number generators- it’s March Madness time!! Last year we had lots of fun trying out various picking techniques (Matlab random number, zero points, etc.) but Danielle was the picking champion (check out last year’s post to relive the fun). I’m hoping Danielle will be back to defend her title in the 2007 version of the “We Hate Tim” league. To enter, click the link below:

http://games.espn.go.com/tcmen/group?groupID=9968&password=timrocks

Or, if you have problems with the link above, enter through the main page:

Game Front: http://games.espn.go.com/tcmen/frontpage
Group: We Hate Tim
Password: timrocks

Five entries are allowed so go ahead and use one to pick your underdog to go all the way (GT national champs!!). Also, be sure to come back here and join in the conversation through the NCAA tournament via the comments (and if you want a sweet new avatar to go with your comments as you mock the user who picked Winthrop to win it all, check out the post below).

The NCAA hoops tournament starts today and I hope you entered your picks in our ESPN “We Hate Tim” league. Inspired by Tim’s 1e6 picking monkeys, I decided to create a bracket using the random number generator in Matlab to pick each game (randint=1 means the higher seed advances, randint=0 means the lower seed). Kind of interesting (and ironic) that the random numbers picked Nevada to go all the way- must be some sort of Las Vegas conspiracy!! Your thoughts?

The link to the complete bracket is below (you can rotate the page in your PDF viewer using View-Rotate View):
Random Matlab Bracket