{"id":1024,"date":"2015-04-25T16:50:19","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T20:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2015-04-25T16:54:33","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T20:54:33","slug":"ncbl-kick-off-meeting-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/25\/ncbl-kick-off-meeting-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"NCBL Kick-off Meeting Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2015 NCBL Kick-off Meeting is tomorrow morning, which means it&#8217;s time once again for my tri-annual meeting prediction column. \u00a0For all you stat lovers out there, I&#8217;ve done the math and can confirm that my predictions have a 99.14% accuracy rating, so you might as well take what I&#8217;m about to say as fact.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my official preview, which for all intents and purposes should double as\u00a0a recap:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More teams than not will pay their fees<\/li>\n<li>Craig Cornell walks out with at least 1 cheque that has no chance of clearing<\/li>\n<li>Pat Lyons walks out after telling anyone who will listen that he has a team that would&#8217;ve won Tier 1<\/li>\n<li>After distributing the baseballs, Bill Beelen walks out a little upset that he no longer has the biggest\u00a0set of balls in Eastern Ontario<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As always, I won&#8217;t be attending the meeting so be sure to report back to me either by email at <a href=\"mailto:shaun.keay@sweatsoxbaseball.com\">shaun.keay@sweatsoxbaseball.com<\/a> or on Twitter at @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sweatsox\">sweatsox<\/a> or @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shaunkeay\">shaunkeay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">2015 NCBL Kick-Off Meeting is this Sunday!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ncbl?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ncbl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCBL (@ncbl) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ncbl\/status\/591691378792472578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2015 NCBL Kick-off Meeting is tomorrow morning, which means it&#8217;s time once again for my tri-annual meeting prediction column. \u00a0For all you stat lovers out there, I&#8217;ve done the math and can confirm that my predictions have a 99.14% accuracy rating, so you might as well take what I&#8217;m about to say as fact&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ncbl"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015kickoff.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41pWP-gw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027,"href":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions\/1027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}