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Well, I have to admit, I liked that more than other games in the last month. Is that because I watched from home and therefore gave the game my undivided attention? No, it’s because we won and scored two goals. Duh, let’s dive in. 1) Soccer is a game with a lot of randomness GameContinue reading “Data Dump: at Tucson (#1)”

Last week was just an incredible, topsy-turvy week with the WGaH predictions competition. If that would have been a decision day for us, it would have probably led to violence. But instead, we can marvel at Rich’s comeback and Ben’s ascension, and worry about the following week. Ben Jon Liam Luke Rich Riley Ryan ChattanoogaContinue reading “USL League One Predictions: Week 16”

This week’s ratings saw an unexpected seismic shift, as well as the introduction of an overall general look that I was expecting we’d see around this time. Here’s a quick look before I expand: Rank Team Rating 1 Union Omaha (6-5-1) 1.975 2 Chattanooga Red Wolves (6-5-1) 1.579 3 Greenville Triumph (6-4-3) 0.958 4 ForwardContinue reading “USL League One Ratings: Week 16”

No words could sum up my feelings for this game as well as the following emoji:  😑 I’ll save the feelings talk for the pod this week, but I think it’s okay to be in your feelings after two straight painful draws, 24 days since we tasted victory, and 38 days since Greg Hurst’s hat-trickContinue reading “Data Dump: Madison (Home) (#1)”

We here at Who Gives A Hoot Media hope you all had a wonderful bye week.  Whatever it is you did, wherever you went, we hope you were safe and had fun.  Now let’s get back to business.             Tonight, Union Omaha welcomes Forward Madison into Werner Park for the first time since August 19th,Continue reading “Forward Madison Preview”

Luke’s undeterred hatred of Chattanooga, and my totally independent decision to include last weekend’s continental finals has bunched up our table considerably. Let’s take a look at what it actually did: Ben Jon Liam Luke Rich Riley Ryan New England 1-0 Toronto 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 Chattanooga 2-2 Tucson 0 0 0Continue reading “USL League One Predictions: Week 15”

We had our lightest schedule by far since I’ve started publishing my ratings. Let’s see how much movement there was with a third of the league sitting idle this past weekend: Rank Team Rating 1 Union Omaha (6-4-1) 2.127 2 Chattanooga Red Wolves (5-4-1) 1.598 3 Greenville Triumph (6-4-2) 1.346 4 Forward Madison (4-4-3) 0.647Continue reading “USL League One Ratings: Week 15”

Last week was an interesting one; multiple matchups where teams highly rated were pitted against each other, and a couple of teams with multiple matches that led to equally poor results. Here are the current USL League One ratings, followed by a summary from the previous week: Rank Team Rating 1 Union Omaha (6-4-1) 2.126Continue reading “USL League One Ratings: Week 14”

Wow, there are ways to suck, and there are ways to really suck. The entire team cumulatively blanked nearly half the slate. It would have been more than half had Riley not been bold and predicted Madison with a quick turnaround rematch win against New England, a club that let most of the pod downContinue reading “USL League One Predictions: Week 14”

To quote author Richard Powers and his introduction to “Galatea 2.2,”: “It was like so, but wasn’t.”  Union Omaha had the lead after 90 minutes, even after playing down a man for 35 minutes.  The three points were within grasp, victory was a mere five minutes of extra time away, and then it happened: inContinue reading “Ref Ruins Rumble with the Red Wolves”