Bowling
Averaging 220-230 in a local league.
Bowling
Averaging 220-230 in a local league.
equivalence wrote:
Kipchoge = LeBron - Arguably GOAT
Galen Rupp = Curry - Engineered from a young age, Dominant in college, inexplicably competes with the big boys
About 300 other East Africans = Everyone else in the NBA
Jared Ward - D-League MVP
Sage Canaday - playing in Israel somewhere, tries out for NBA squad every year
2:30 marathoner - The three white guys cheering at the end of the bench on Duke
+1 lol
equivalence wrote:
Kipchoge = LeBron - Arguably GOAT
Galen Rupp = Curry - Engineered from a young age, Dominant in college, inexplicably competes with the big boys
About 300 other East Africans = Everyone else in the NBA
Jared Ward - D-League MVP
Sage Canaday - playing in Israel somewhere, tries out for NBA squad every year
2:30 marathoner - The three white guys cheering at the end of the bench on Duke
Are you guys crazy? I imagine Sage would admit the guys at the end of the Duke bench are way better than him.
But a 2:30 marathon is a time tons of women can do. Last year 162 women broke 2:30 in the marathon so I'd compare 2:30 to being the equivalent of an LPGAer.
Tilastapaja lists 1000 men that ran 2:18:55 or faster last year.
I would say Web.com tour for PGA
Good but I will modify to:
Haile = Jordan -took their sports to another level
Bekele = Kobe -mastered their sports and were dominant
Kipchoge = LeBron - arguably GOAT
Galen Rupp = Curry - engineered from a young age, Dominant in college, inexplicably competes with the big boys
About 300 other East Africans = everyone else in the NBA
Jared Ward - the NBA D-League MVP
2:20 marathoner- everyone else in the NBA D-League
2:30 marathoner - make what you will of the NBA G-League
It depends on how you view it. If you view it on a world-wide basis, then 2:20 would place you as a third string football player or practice squad player. In basketball, you'd be playing second string in a Euroleague. In soccer you'd be on an MLS team easy.
If you look at it from just a US perspective, then 2:20 you easily place you in top 50-100 graduating college athletes, and therefore would get you drafted in any league. So if you compare against other American sports 2:20 is very much equal to starting or second string D-line etc. But, when you take into account all the world marathoners, especially East Africans, then you drop off significantly. But the participation rate worldwide is so much higher than other sports! Only soccer would compare worldwide and soccer has so many leagues worldwide that a 2:20 marathoner would equal an MLS pro.
Easy lane conditions...... wrote:
Bowling
Averaging 220-230 in a local league.
Sport or house pattern?
rojo wrote:
I imagine Sage would admit the guys at the end of the Duke bench are way better than him.
Give me a break. The kids warming the Duke bench don’t have a prayer of playing basketball after college. Sage has been a professional runner for close to a decade.
NewtotheSouthSide wrote:
I put in 2:30 for M20-29 and it says top 99%. A 2:44 is top 98% so I think a 2:30 is well inside the top 1%.
High school seniors that play basketball get drafted at a 3 in 10,000 rate (.03%). Sub-2:30 is elite in my opinion but you probably need to be a bit quicker to line up with this stat.
But in the world famous LRC message board population 2:20 is only top 50%. A 2:30 is like top 90%.
according to renato, they are either 4th graders, or old fat women who are tending the goats
The dudes on the end of the Duke bench are rarely actually that good. I doubt they get any D1 scholarship offers, etc.
They are walk ons with bball experience and size to help in practice and possible connections to the program to help them get there.
Of course, by the time they are seniors they are usually a lot better
equivalence wrote:=
Jared Ward - D-League MVP
come on, the guy got 6th place in the Olympic marathon.
2:30 for Kenyans/Ethiopians is like being the 6th man in your local YMCA League team.
Harambe wrote:
The dudes on the end of the Duke bench are rarely actually that good. I doubt they get any D1 scholarship offers, etc.
They are walk ons with bball experience and size to help in practice and possible connections to the program to help them get there.
Of course, by the time they are seniors they are usually a lot better
Exhibit A: Todd Zafirovski, class of 2013, currently an account manager for an IT company, still wearing his duke jersey in his LinkedIn photo, ran a blazing 2:22 half marathon in March
There are 300 players in the NBA , 1200 players in the MLB, and 1696 players in the NFL.
The equivalent times according to the IAAF from 2017 would be:
2:12:21, 2:22:39, 2:26:58
Then you need to factor in all the college runners who would continue running if it had as much money in it as the other sports. Also you would have to factor in the 5K and 10K guys who would move up to the marathon if it had that much more prestige. I would guess that both of those factors would greatly change those numbers.
equivalence wrote:
Kipchoge = LeBron - Arguably GOAT
Galen Rupp = Curry - Engineered from a young age, Dominant in college, inexplicably competes with the big boys
About 300 other East Africans = Everyone else in the NBA
Jared Ward - D-League MVP
Sage Canaday - playing in Israel somewhere, tries out for NBA squad every year
2:30 marathoner - The three white guys cheering at the end of the bench on Duke
Savage af. Note, the 2:30 marathoner posting on LetsRun and calling people hobbyjoggers are probably just white kids going to second-tier elite schools like Duke.
My 2 cents Take wrote:
Good but I will modify to:
Haile = Jordan -took their sports to another level
Bekele = Kobe -mastered their sports and were dominant
Kipchoge = LeBron - arguably GOAT
Galen Rupp = Curry - engineered from a young age, Dominant in college, inexplicably competes with the big boys
About 300 other East Africans = everyone else in the NBA
Jared Ward - the NBA D-League MVP
2:20 marathoner- everyone else in the NBA D-League
2:30 marathoner - make what you will of the NBA G-League
Jordan is if Usain Bolt and Bekele and Kipchoge had a love child
still hate laettner wrote:
Harambe wrote:
The dudes on the end of the Duke bench are rarely actually that good. I doubt they get any D1 scholarship offers, etc.
They are walk ons with bball experience and size to help in practice and possible connections to the program to help them get there.
Of course, by the time they are seniors they are usually a lot better
Exhibit A: Todd Zafirovski, class of 2013, currently an account manager for an IT company, still wearing his duke jersey in his LinkedIn photo, ran a blazing 2:22 half marathon in March
BBN? Do your non-NBA players even get a job? What's the grad rate, 8%?
still hate laettner wrote:
Harambe wrote:
The dudes on the end of the Duke bench are rarely actually that good. I doubt they get any D1 scholarship offers, etc.
They are walk ons with bball experience and size to help in practice and possible connections to the program to help them get there.
Of course, by the time they are seniors they are usually a lot better
Exhibit A: Todd Zafirovski, class of 2013, currently an account manager for an IT company, still wearing his duke jersey in his LinkedIn photo, ran a blazing 2:22 half marathon in March
Exhibit B: Martynas Pocius, class of 2009
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/martynas-pocius-1.htmlAlmost the last guy in Duke's bench during his 4 seasons, and after that, he played in the best European teams, starter in Lithuanian NT, world medalist, and now, months after retirement, he got a job in the Denver Nuggets.
Ben L Wrong wrote:
Exhibit B: Martynas Pocius, class of 2009
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/martynas-pocius-1.htmlAlmost the last guy in Duke's bench during his 4 seasons, and after that, he played in the best European teams, starter in Lithuanian NT, world medalist, and now, months after retirement, he got a job in the Denver Nuggets.
Pocius saw playing time. The guys at the end of the bench K doesn't trust on the court to dribble out the game. They are just on the team because their dad owns the celtics (or that was the case in previous years).