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Post by drystyx on Mar 4, 2019 0:47:00 GMT
Pick up to five.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Mar 4, 2019 0:50:33 GMT
50 NHL goals in 39 NHL games.
December 30, 1981.
99 had 50 goals before New Year's. Read that again.
Of your list it's the perfect bracket - 1 in 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 chance.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Mar 4, 2019 1:38:10 GMT
Triple play, mate.
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Post by NJtoTX on Mar 4, 2019 1:45:26 GMT
Picking every winner in the NCAA tournament is effectively impossible.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Mar 4, 2019 1:55:00 GMT
In no order
56 game hitting streak. The media pressure will be overwhelming
Every NCAA tournament game. 68 games without a miss, no way
Picking complete order of the Kentucky Derby. 20 horses in order, no way
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Post by sdm3 on Mar 4, 2019 2:09:59 GMT
NHL - score a goal on even strength, shorthanded, power play and a penalty shot all in one game.
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Mar 4, 2019 2:26:34 GMT
Picking all the March Madness winners. You could win several Powerball jackpots before doing that once.
Climbing Mount Everest. While it’s been done many times, it has a very good chance of killing you.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Mar 4, 2019 2:49:22 GMT
Free Solo-ing El Capitan
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Mar 4, 2019 3:09:49 GMT
Taking all 10 in a test innings. Has happened twice in 142 years.
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Post by sdm3 on Mar 4, 2019 4:07:42 GMT
Take drystyx's NFL power rankings seriously.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Mar 4, 2019 4:10:26 GMT
Picking all the March Madness winners. You could win several Powerball jackpots before doing that once. Yeah. Picking a 68 number lotto winner.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Mar 4, 2019 6:03:21 GMT
A bowler to take all 20 wickets in a first class match.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2019 6:52:42 GMT
Getting hold of a ticket for Ashton Gate when Bristol City host Man City in a cup.
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Post by Aj_June on Mar 4, 2019 7:12:06 GMT
A bowler to take all 20 wickets in a first class match. Have no idea if that has ever happened or not. Jim Laker took 19 I definitely know.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Mar 4, 2019 8:11:38 GMT
A bowler to take all 20 wickets in a first class match. Have no idea if that has ever happened or not. Jim Laker took 19 I definitely know. It hasn't. Laker holds the 1st class record. I think the next best is 17.
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Post by No_Socks_Here on Mar 4, 2019 11:47:01 GMT
Ted Williams said that the hardest thing in sports is to hit a pitched baseball.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Mar 4, 2019 20:10:36 GMT
Ted Williams was wrong. Cut and dried: that's it.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Mar 4, 2019 20:24:20 GMT
Haven't a lot of people ran a four minute mile? The barrier was broke a long time ago. Me, I stand a better chance of picking the NCAA tournament 100% correct (I can't run at all, a four hour mile, maybe), but I would believe the record has been trimmed since Roger Bannister.
I knew a man who climbed Everest and a lot of other big mountains. He told me there are many high peaks in the Himalayas that make Everest look like a Sunday stroll
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Post by masterofallgoons on Mar 4, 2019 20:28:56 GMT
Ted Williams was wrong. Cut and dried: that's it. I believe that statement is based on a statistical analysis though. I've heard this repeated many times, and my thinking is that the idea is that of the things that are elemental and constant parts of their games it is the least likely area of success. Succeeding at a rate of a 1/3 of the time is considered a superstar performance. I don't believe that's true for other acts that occur on every play of other sports. And the analysis of the physics of it seem to suggest it's significantly more difficult that it appears. Anyway, that's my understanding of this oft repeated sentiment. Not sure if it can be proven, or even if I have it all right, but that's some of thinking behind it. |
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Post by klawrencio79 on Mar 4, 2019 20:31:02 GMT
This poll is a bit nutso. Just going by baseball, rare as it may be, an unassisted triple play has occurred 15 times in baseball's history. The last guy who did it was Eric Bruntlett, he of the .231/.303/.330 career slash line, not exactly an ambassador for the game. So the notion that it is "difficult" is a misnomer; he just happened to be standing in the right place at the right time when the runners went.
3 homeruns in one game? Yeah, it's difficult for me to accomplish it, but just in the last 20 years, each of A-roid, Mark McGwire and Carlos Delgado accomplished the feat 5 different times. So the multiple people who picked this and the triple play should take a lap.
A 56 game hitting streak has happened....once. Just one time. A pretty darn good player accomplished it.
As for the poll overall, according to my very scientific google search, the longest an NCAA bracket has verifiably remained perfect has been 39 games. I need not get into the math involved in determining how unlikely it is to get a perfect bracket.
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