Saw this via this week's ESPN Power Rankings, which have the Cards in 19th:
If the Cardinals win fewer than 89 games — a virtual certainty — their three-year winning percentage will dip below .500 for the first time this century. After the 1999 season, their three-year mark was down to .475, but they then won 96 games in 2000 to move back over .500. They have kept their rolling average above breakeven ever since until, likely, this season.
I'm sure we'll hit that.
Beyond that, will we finish below .500 this year, and make it twice in three years, and maybe beat the remaining naysayers over the head enough that they admit how much of an overhaul the team needs?
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What about 4 or 5 year? I’m not happy with decisions made by the Cardinals either but this just seems like “since the Cardinals started playing badly, their record has been worse than the last 20 years they were good”
Brother, who is saying this team doesn’t need an overhaul? I need a list of names.
What Yadi retiring does do an organization
Ooh, stats. We need for someone to do a multi variable regression analysis for predicting wins. What variables should we include? It’s going to be a long offseason so we will have plenty of time to test it retroactively against multiple time periods. At least one of the variables has to be totally outside of the box so we can compare t stats.