re: Bama is past the point of maximum yield - law of diminishing returns cannot be argued with

I'm not afraid of "bookmarking." Whatever that is.

And you may be from Tuscaloosa or wherever, but that doesn't mean you know sports. OK?

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. I said that I know what's going on around the Ath. Dept. in Tuscaloosa

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Well you need to make that more clear to begin with. How was I supposed to know?

I don't like your attitude. You guys have fun in this thread but you can't argue with science.

"I'm from Tuscaloosa and know the "lay of the land" there in the AD."
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Now lets talk about that reading comp, ok?

I do believe that’s a melt.

Outstanding analysis Harry.

Thank for your hard work.

HRV is an acquired taste and I get that he's trying to be funny. But, here is what seriously keeps me up ...

What if Bama stays a great team, and what if LSU and Georgia stays very good and Auburn becomes consistent and hell ... Tennessee might improve (no telling what Pruitt could accomplish there) .. what if Florida gets into that mix too (which I think they will)?

Well, we'll end up beating each other up and there may come a season where the SEC champ has 2 losses but is still very good or better than any team from any other conference but gets passed over for the playoffs because the weaker conferences champ has only one or zero losses.

As far as teams in the SEC go, this is what concerns me. So, yeah I'm hoping A1abama will become a second tier school -- probably won't happen though. I hope the rest stay down and we get our 3-4 year reign at the top but that likely won't happen if I'm being serious.

This is a great post, which adds the very reasonable line of thought that the bowl committees are trying to hold off the inevitable as some type of favor to Alabama. That's to be expected: the top bowl officials continue to outwardly prop up the Tide while secretly scouring the landscape for where the new dynasty will come from.

They know it's over too, but they are paid to do the smile and nod routine for the time being.

Excellent post sir.

Who was the "dynasty" before this Bama run?

This is an embarrassingly naive application of theory.
1st, you're assuming all the other variables in the success equation have been static. this is, objectively, a very stupid thing to do in all complex modelling.

2nd, the law of diminishing return is in regard to the output of the additional input, not of the relationship between the total input versus the total output. While the diminishing return does imply the rate of gain on additional input falls below a linear growth rate, it does not in anyway indicate a net negative production on added input.

3rd, the point of maximum yield only exists if the input has a cost. if additional input has no cost or the cost is never worth consideration, there is no point of maximum yield.