Lynah now at full capacity
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Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: CAS (---.hsd1.nj.comcast.net)
Date: October 26, 2021 09:38AM
…confirmed in a Coach Schafer email this morning
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: upprdeck (38.77.26.---)
Date: October 26, 2021 03:55PM
lots of empty seats so far.. I did notice someone took my ST seats though..
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: upprdeck (38.77.26.---)
Date: October 28, 2021 12:34PM
still looking at about 30% on the townie side for tickets sold.
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: CU2007 (---.buffalo.res.rr.com)
Date: October 29, 2021 09:46PM
Decent attendance. So does that count as a win or a tie for pairwise stuff?
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: Jeff Hopkins '82 (---.44.98.30.res-cmts.sm.ptd.net)
Date: October 29, 2021 09:57PM
CU2007
Decent attendance. So does that count as a win or a tie for pairwise stuff?
What was the score? None of the uscho or CHN pages are showing it.
Never mind...found the score. 3-2 OT.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/29/2021 09:59PM by Jeff Hopkins '82.
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: scoop85 (---.hvc.res.rr.com)
Date: October 29, 2021 09:59PM
Jeff Hopkins '82
CU2007
Decent attendance. So does that count as a win or a tie for pairwise stuff?
What was the score? None of the uscho or CHN pages are showing it.
3-2 in OT. Counts as .55% of a win in Pairwise
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: David Harding (---.hsd1.il.comcast.net)
Date: October 29, 2021 10:02PM
Live stats says the game hasn't started yet. (10:00 PM EDT)scoop85
Jeff Hopkins '82
CU2007
Decent attendance. So does that count as a win or a tie for pairwise stuff?
What was the score? None of the uscho or CHN pages are showing it.
3-2 in OT. Counts as .55% of a win in Pairwise
Sun story here.
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: CU2007 (---.buffalo.res.rr.com)
Date: October 29, 2021 10:50PM
scoop85
Jeff Hopkins '82
CU2007
Decent attendance. So does that count as a win or a tie for pairwise stuff?
What was the score? None of the uscho or CHN pages are showing it.
3-2 in OT. Counts as .55% of a win in Pairwise
Damn. And here I was thinking “well we escaped with the win and that’s all that matters” and then I guess we only sorta did but also kinda didn’t.
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: scoop85 (---.hvc.res.rr.com)
Date: October 29, 2021 11:08PM
CU2007
scoop85
Jeff Hopkins '82
CU2007
Decent attendance. So does that count as a win or a tie for pairwise stuff?
What was the score? None of the uscho or CHN pages are showing it.
3-2 in OT. Counts as .55% of a win in Pairwise
Damn. And here I was thinking “well we escaped with the win and that’s all that matters” and then I guess we only sorta did but also kinda didn’t.
Better than Colgate, which blew a 5-0 lead and lost to Western Michigan 6-5 in regulation
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: upprdeck (38.77.26.---)
Date: October 29, 2021 11:21PM
colgate got outshot by almost 30.. you wonder how they got such a big lead to blow.
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: Scersk '97 (38.81.106.---)
Date: October 29, 2021 11:21PM
“Eddie Shore?”
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: upprdeck (38.77.26.---)
Date: October 29, 2021 11:22PM
where was the band for 2/3 of the game? the lonely tuba guy sitting there was kinda sad to see.. almost like they forgot to tell him about the party they all went too?
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: Scersk '97 (38.81.106.---)
Date: October 29, 2021 11:25PM
The current band is not adept at being two places at once.
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: Dafatone (---.sub-174-198-75.myvzw.com)
Date: October 29, 2021 11:35PM
I can't believe football gets top billing over hockey.
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: ursusminor (---.washdc.dsl-w.verizon.net)
Date: October 30, 2021 04:58AM
CU2007
scoop85
Jeff Hopkins '82
CU2007
Decent attendance. So does that count as a win or a tie for pairwise stuff?
What was the score? None of the uscho or CHN pages are showing it.
3-2 in OT. Counts as .55% of a win in Pairwise
Damn. And here I was thinking “well we escaped with the win and that’s all that matters” and then I guess we only sorta did but also kinda didn’t.
.55% win would really be bad. In the ECAC it counts as 2 points while a regulation win is 3. [www.ecachockey.com]
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: jtwcornell91 (Moderator)
Date: October 30, 2021 06:40AM
ursusminor
CU2007
scoop85
Jeff Hopkins '82
CU2007
Decent attendance. So does that count as a win or a tie for pairwise stuff?
What was the score? None of the uscho or CHN pages are showing it.
3-2 in OT. Counts as .55% of a win in Pairwise
Damn. And here I was thinking “well we escaped with the win and that’s all that matters” and then I guess we only sorta did but also kinda didn’t.
.55% win would really be bad. In the ECAC it counts as 2 points while a regulation win is 3. [www.ecachockey.com]
Right, that's the way the IIHF has been doing it for a few years (before 3x3 actually). Dunno why the NCAA decided to devalue OT wins so much.
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: Al DeFlorio (---.hsd1.ma.comcast.net)
Date: October 30, 2021 07:01AM
Did Samuel Beckett dream this nonsense up? Just play a five skaters on a side, sudden death overtime for ten minutes, and you either get a deserving winner or a deserved tie. No gimmicks. Just real hockey. Worked fine for a lot of years. And everybody understood it.scoop85
Jeff Hopkins '82
CU2007
Decent attendance. So does that count as a win or a tie for pairwise stuff?
What was the score? None of the uscho or CHN pages are showing it.
3-2 in OT. Counts as .55% of a win in Pairwise
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Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: George64 (---.rochester.res.rr.com)
Date: October 30, 2021 07:41AM
Al DeFlorio
Did Samuel Beckett dream this nonsense up? Just play a five skaters on a side, sudden death overtime for ten minutes, and you either get a deserving winner or a deserved tie. No gimmicks. Just real hockey. Worked fine for a lot of years. And everybody understood it.
Agreed!
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: ursusminor (---.washdc.dsl-w.verizon.net)
Date: October 30, 2021 07:47AM
jtwcornell91
ursusminor
CU2007
scoop85
Jeff Hopkins '82
CU2007
Decent attendance. So does that count as a win or a tie for pairwise stuff?
What was the score? None of the uscho or CHN pages are showing it.
3-2 in OT. Counts as .55% of a win in Pairwise
Damn. And here I was thinking “well we escaped with the win and that’s all that matters” and then I guess we only sorta did but also kinda didn’t.
.55% win would really be bad. In the ECAC it counts as 2 points while a regulation win is 3. [www.ecachockey.com]
Right, that's the way the IIHF has been doing it for a few years (before 3x3 actually). Dunno why the NCAA decided to devalue OT wins so much.
When a game is tied after regulation, each team gets 45% of a win, so they are competing for 10% of a win in OT. It hardly seems worth the effort. At this moment RPI has a .733 winning percentage and sits #8 in PWR. That includes two OT losses contributing in total 90% of a win.
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: nshapiro (---.phlapa.fios.verizon.net)
Date: October 30, 2021 07:57AM
Rk Team PCWs RPI Rk QWB-† W-L-T PwWin % Wgtd Win % - ‡
40 Cornell 16 .4315 40 .0000 1-0-0 .5500 .4490
looks freakin' stupid!
40 Cornell 16 .4315 40 .0000 1-0-0 .5500 .4490
looks freakin' stupid!
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: Dafatone (---.sub-174-198-67.myvzw.com)
Date: October 30, 2021 08:43AM
What does it count as for RPI? The pairwise is practically just RPI with the occasional wrinkle. Looks like a tie to me, or maybe the same 55% stuff.
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: marty (---.nycap.res.rr.com)
Date: October 30, 2021 08:50AM
Dafatone
What does it count as for RPI? The pairwise is practically just RPI with the occasional wrinkle. Looks like a tie to me, or maybe the same 55% stuff.
Good fodder for JTW's students, but not so much for my vintage brain.
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: upprdeck (38.77.26.---)
Date: October 30, 2021 08:52AM
why does it count less anyway. its still a win.. does they devalue a win if you score in the last min with a 5x3 advantage goal?
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: Weder (---.hsd1.va.comcast.net)
Date: October 30, 2021 09:19AM
Dafatone
What does it count as for RPI? The pairwise is practically just RPI with the occasional wrinkle. Looks like a tie to me, or maybe the same 55% stuff.
It's 55% of a win. (And shootout wins will be 50% of a win.)
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Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: Dafatone (---.sub-174-198-67.myvzw.com)
Date: October 30, 2021 09:56AM
upprdeck
why does it count less anyway. its still a win.. does they devalue a win if you score in the last min with a 5x3 advantage goal?
I go the other way. 3x3 hockey is way too gimmicky for my tastes. Ditch it or calling a tie regardless of outcome.
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: upprdeck (38.77.26.---)
Date: October 30, 2021 10:48AM
You go 3x3 to try and remove most of the ties.. no different than soccer deciding that a play at midfield wouldnt even be worthy of a card but in the penalty area is worth a PK that often decides a game. Some things are dumb in all sports. They could also go 5x5 for 5 min then 4x4 for 5 min then 3x3 or something.. But if you create a rule that makes a winner you shouldnt be giving them the same 2 pts but devaluing it in other places. If thats the case then they should be going to 3-2-1 win/Ot/Tie or something.
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: Al DeFlorio (---.hsd1.ma.comcast.net)
Date: October 30, 2021 12:03PM
You should remove the tie by playing the same game with the same rules that resulted in the tie, not some bastardized version of it. If the tie stands up, so what? It's the fair outcome. 2/1/0 still the best.upprdeck
You go 3x3 to try and remove most of the ties.. no different than soccer deciding that a play at midfield wouldnt even be worthy of a card but in the penalty area is worth a PK that often decides a game. Some things are dumb in all sports. They could also go 5x5 for 5 min then 4x4 for 5 min then 3x3 or something.. But if you create a rule that makes a winner you shouldnt be giving them the same 2 pts but devaluing it in other places. If thats the case then they should be going to 3-2-1 win/Ot/Tie or something.
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Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: CU2007 (---.buffalo.res.rr.com)
Date: October 30, 2021 12:10PM
In light of all this, an OT win against a bad team feels basically like a loss (and is somewhat reflected as such in the all-important RPI). Oh well, just need a win tonight to call it an OK weekend.
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: Scersk '97 (38.81.106.---)
Date: October 30, 2021 12:31PM
Dafatone
I can't believe football gets top billing over hockey.
Neither can I.
My freshman year, the away Penn weekend coincided with the home Harvard/Brown weekend. So…
We stayed for the hockey game on Friday, had a party, climbed on a bus for an overnight road trip (brief sleep was allowed) to Philadelphia, played a breakfast gig, marched, left after halftime, and made it back before the beginning of the second period of the Brown game. This was back when losing in football was not a given and Brown's hockey team was pretty good. So, we hustled all over to see three losses that weekend.
But it was glorious.
(We also did this with all away games my senior year: Brown hockey, Yale football, Harvard hockey. The very next weekend, we did the same shuffle as above with Vermont (home) hockey, Columbia (away) football, and Dartmouth (home) hockey. IIRC, there was a skeleton band for the Dartmouth game and then we returners showed up for the third. If we hadn't put together that crazy schedule, I would have missed one of my cherished memories from Lynah: a disconsolate Tim Thomas breaking his stick over the cage after we beat their #1-ranked team. Which reminds me of Lake Placid that year: [repeatedly, to the Vermont fans cheering against us] "Where is your team?! Clap-clap-clapclapclap."
(I am also proud to mention that we were, as far as I know, the first four-year group of pep bandies to make trips to every ECAC road rink during our four years. Dartmouth-Vermont, I believe, had been the missing link for many, and we had done the at the time horrid Yale-Princeton trip my freshman year. We made Harvard-Brown, Clarkson-SLU, RPI-Union, and Colgate most every year. And, indeed, the Harvard, Brown, RPI, Colgate, and Clarkson bands commonly visited Lynah. Good times.)
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: Weder (---.hsd1.md.comcast.net)
Date: October 30, 2021 01:49PM
Al DeFlorio
You should remove the tie by playing the same game with the same rules that resulted in the tie, not some bastardized version of it. If the tie stands up, so what? It's the fair outcome. 2/1/0 still the best.upprdeck
You go 3x3 to try and remove most of the ties.. no different than soccer deciding that a play at midfield wouldnt even be worthy of a card but in the penalty area is worth a PK that often decides a game. Some things are dumb in all sports. They could also go 5x5 for 5 min then 4x4 for 5 min then 3x3 or something.. But if you create a rule that makes a winner you shouldnt be giving them the same 2 pts but devaluing it in other places. If thats the case then they should be going to 3-2-1 win/Ot/Tie or something.
Sudden death is not playing by the same rules, though. Should it be like soccer where you play the full extra period?
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: ugarte (---.dyn.optonline.net)
Date: October 30, 2021 02:48PM
love 3x3 sorry! (do not love 55% but would probably be fine if we could negotiate this to, say, 70%)
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Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: Al DeFlorio (---.hsd1.ma.comcast.net)
Date: October 30, 2021 05:49PM
Read the NCAA overtime rules for soccer: Two ten-minute SUDDEN DEATH periods. In a game where goals are scarce as hen's teeth, like hockey and soccer, sudden death is appropriate. In lacrosse, where twenty-plus goals per game are the norm, it isn't.Weder
Al DeFlorio
You should remove the tie by playing the same game with the same rules that resulted in the tie, not some bastardized version of it. If the tie stands up, so what? It's the fair outcome. 2/1/0 still the best.upprdeck
You go 3x3 to try and remove most of the ties.. no different than soccer deciding that a play at midfield wouldnt even be worthy of a card but in the penalty area is worth a PK that often decides a game. Some things are dumb in all sports. They could also go 5x5 for 5 min then 4x4 for 5 min then 3x3 or something.. But if you create a rule that makes a winner you shouldnt be giving them the same 2 pts but devaluing it in other places. If thats the case then they should be going to 3-2-1 win/Ot/Tie or something.
Sudden death is not playing by the same rules, though. Should it be like soccer where you play the full extra period?
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Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: Dafatone (---.sub-174-198-67.myvzw.com)
Date: October 30, 2021 06:24PM
Weder
Al DeFlorio
You should remove the tie by playing the same game with the same rules that resulted in the tie, not some bastardized version of it. If the tie stands up, so what? It's the fair outcome. 2/1/0 still the best.upprdeck
You go 3x3 to try and remove most of the ties.. no different than soccer deciding that a play at midfield wouldnt even be worthy of a card but in the penalty area is worth a PK that often decides a game. Some things are dumb in all sports. They could also go 5x5 for 5 min then 4x4 for 5 min then 3x3 or something.. But if you create a rule that makes a winner you shouldnt be giving them the same 2 pts but devaluing it in other places. If thats the case then they should be going to 3-2-1 win/Ot/Tie or something.
Sudden death is not playing by the same rules, though. Should it be like soccer where you play the full extra period?
I wouldn't mind 3v3 whole period as much as 3v3 sudden death. And I like sudden death. But it's too random in 3v3.
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: jtwcornell91 (Moderator)
Date: October 30, 2021 08:04PM
marty
Dafatone
What does it count as for RPI? The pairwise is practically just RPI with the occasional wrinkle. Looks like a tie to me, or maybe the same 55% stuff.
Good fodder for JTW's students, but not so much for my vintage brain.
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: marty (---.nycap.res.rr.com)
Date: October 30, 2021 09:47PM
George64
Al DeFlorio
Did Samuel Beckett dream this nonsense up? Just play a five skaters on a side, sudden death overtime for ten minutes, and you either get a deserving winner or a deserved tie. No gimmicks. Just real hockey. Worked fine for a lot of years. And everybody understood it.
Agreed!
After a few more hours of watching ESPN+ and listening to Grady quote Coach as saying if 3x3 is so wonderful then why not use it in the post season... it finally occurred to me that no one will be going into the post season with any 5x5 sudden death experience. Ugh!
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: Scersk '97 (38.81.106.---)
Date: October 30, 2021 09:48PM
ugarte
love 3x3 sorry! (do not love 55% but would probably be fine if we could negotiate this to, say, 70%)
Disagree. It's dumb and anti-climactic.
How much better would it have been to have 5x4 for overtime tonight and 100% of a win instead of 55% of a tie?
I could get on board with 4x4, five minutes, no sudden death.
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: arugula (---.sub-174-197-206.myvzw.com)
Date: October 30, 2021 10:24PM
Attended tonight. First game together at Lynah with my freshman daughter. Big night. We mostly controlled action but typically cannot finish. Question-is there a return to Alaska? The university would not possibly allow that unless it was in January. These trips UA makes are anathema to a so-called education. Actually a bit disappointed we participated in that. They’ve been on the road 4,000 miles-away from home for like 3 weeks. Nuts.
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: scoop85 (---.hvc.res.rr.com)
Date: October 30, 2021 10:38PM
arugula
Attended tonight. First game together at Lynah with my freshman daughter. Big night. We mostly controlled action but typically cannot finish. Question-is there a return to Alaska? The university would not possibly allow that unless it was in January. These trips UA makes are anathema to a so-called education. Actually a bit disappointed we participated in that. They’ve been on the road 4,000 miles-away from home for like 3 weeks. Nuts.
Maybe not as big a deal these days with Zoom and the like.
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: CU2007 (---.buffalo.res.rr.com)
Date: October 30, 2021 10:47PM
scoop85
arugula
Attended tonight. First game together at Lynah with my freshman daughter. Big night. We mostly controlled action but typically cannot finish. Question-is there a return to Alaska? The university would not possibly allow that unless it was in January. These trips UA makes are anathema to a so-called education. Actually a bit disappointed we participated in that. They’ve been on the road 4,000 miles-away from home for like 3 weeks. Nuts.
Maybe not as big a deal these days with Zoom and the like.
Exactly. Hard to say when half the schools in America charged full tuition for a year of online college
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: jtwcornell91 (Moderator)
Date: October 30, 2021 11:21PM
ugarte
love 3x3 sorry! (do not love 55% but would probably be fine if we could negotiate this to, say, 70%)
I've just barely got used to the 3-2-1-0 point system in international/European hockey, but accepting an OT win as 55% of a win is a lot harder than 2/3 of a win. (I'd be reasonably happy with a 5-4-3-2-1-0 system where you lost a point for going to OT, and the shootout after a tie counted for 1/4 as much as the rest of the game.)
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: ugarte (---.dyn.optonline.net)
Date: October 31, 2021 12:27AM
i just like watching firewagon hockey. it's fun. i don't want the whole game to be open ice but it's a wild way to finish and really hard to keep scoreless.
feel getting a pair of OT wins against UAF is going to be bad in the long run for COpp but maybe they are good and will sting enough teams with Ls. (annoyingly, Clarkson went 3-1)
feel getting a pair of OT wins against UAF is going to be bad in the long run for COpp but maybe they are good and will sting enough teams with Ls. (annoyingly, Clarkson went 3-1)
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Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: Swampy (---.ri.ri.cox.net)
Date: October 31, 2021 01:42AM
jtwcornell91
ugarte
love 3x3 sorry! (do not love 55% but would probably be fine if we could negotiate this to, say, 70%)
I've just barely got used to the 3-2-1-0 point system in international/European hockey, but accepting an OT win as 55% of a win is a lot harder than 2/3 of a win. (I'd be reasonably happy with a 5-4-3-2-1-0 system where you lost a point for going to OT, and the shootout after a tie counted for 1/4 as much as the rest of the game.)
+1
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: Swampy (---.ri.ri.cox.net)
Date: October 31, 2021 01:53AM
IIRC, a few years ago we played Wisconsin to triple OT in the NCAA semifinals. Remembering this I’m torn.
Of course it was a single elimination game, so the in-season scenario did not apply. But had the game been in-season, I’d want to reward both teams for such a heroic show, OTOH, I’d @lso want to make the stakes high.
Of course it was a single elimination game, so the in-season scenario did not apply. But had the game been in-season, I’d want to reward both teams for such a heroic show, OTOH, I’d @lso want to make the stakes high.
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: Weder (---.hsd1.md.comcast.net)
Date: October 31, 2021 08:58AM
Al DeFlorio
Read the NCAA overtime rules for soccer: Two ten-minute SUDDEN DEATH periods. In a game where goals are scarce as hen's teeth, like hockey and soccer, sudden death is appropriate. In lacrosse, where twenty-plus goals per game are the norm, it isn't.Weder
Al DeFlorio
You should remove the tie by playing the same game with the same rules that resulted in the tie, not some bastardized version of it. If the tie stands up, so what? It's the fair outcome. 2/1/0 still the best.upprdeck
You go 3x3 to try and remove most of the ties.. no different than soccer deciding that a play at midfield wouldnt even be worthy of a card but in the penalty area is worth a PK that often decides a game. Some things are dumb in all sports. They could also go 5x5 for 5 min then 4x4 for 5 min then 3x3 or something.. But if you create a rule that makes a winner you shouldnt be giving them the same 2 pts but devaluing it in other places. If thats the case then they should be going to 3-2-1 win/Ot/Tie or something.
Sudden death is not playing by the same rules, though. Should it be like soccer where you play the full extra period?
Ah, I don't really follow college soccer and didn't realize OT was sudden death.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/31/2021 08:58AM by Weder.
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: nshapiro (---.phlapa.fios.verizon.net)
Date: November 01, 2021 01:06AM
This was discussed 5 years ago. Depressing that college hockey has followed the poor implementation of the NHLSwampy
jtwcornell91
ugarte
love 3x3 sorry! (do not love 55% but would probably be fine if we could negotiate this to, say, 70%)
I've just barely got used to the 3-2-1-0 point system in international/European hockey, but accepting an OT win as 55% of a win is a lot harder than 2/3 of a win. (I'd be reasonably happy with a 5-4-3-2-1-0 system where you lost a point for going to OT, and the shootout after a tie counted for 1/4 as much as the rest of the game.)
+1
[elf.elynah.com]
LGR14
KeithK
The non-constant point value is a horrible feature of the OT rules and has been since the beginning. Neil and/or Jeff's suggestions would at least eliminate this quirk. But getting rid of the OT gimmicks is really the answer.jkahn
I agree with Greg, and the biggest thing that has bugged me about the NHL system is that each game should have the same total point value. Is winning one game in overtime and losing another in overtime really 50% better than a 3 period win and a 3 period loss? Now that the NHL has gone to the exciting but gimmicky 3 on 3 overtime, at least I'd like to see a 3-2-1-0 point value for NHL games, with the 2-1 covering both overtimes and shootouts. In effect then, an o't or shootout win would only be worth 1.33x what it was worth in the old system where teams divided 2 points.Trotsky
[elf.elynah.com]nshapiro
I am ok with the shootout, but the effect should be de-emphasized, especially the creation of the extra point in the standings.
Each game should be worth 5 points -
5 - regulation win
4 - overtime win
3 - shootout win
2 - shootout loss
1 - overtime loss
0 - regulation loss
No. No, no, no, no, no. No.
The ECAC does this one thing exactly right, and everyone from mites to the NHL should adopt it and then leave it alone forever.
I've also never liked the idea of playing with a different rule set in OT than used in the rest of the game. Adding gimmicky rules in special situations to add "excitement" just diminishes the game. If OT with fewer than five skaters per side is a good idea then why not use it in the playoffs too?
For the same reason that we don't use 20 minute overtimes in the regular season: it's just different.
In addition, teams have a reason to try to play for a tie in the regular season. Having 10 skaters on the ice allows a team playing for the tie to completely clamp down and clog everything. This is bad from an entertainment perspective and from a perspective that argues we want teams to play for the win.
Contrastingly, neither team plays for a tie in the postseason (obviously), and thus 5-on-5 isn't a hinderance.
Turn on Caps-Penguins for OT right now: both teams are going to be flying up and down. That will not happen in the ECAC (unless you get a situation like Harvard-Cornell a couple years ago where both teams really want the win and have nothing to lose)
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/01/2021 07:42AM by nshapiro.
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: Jim Hyla (---.nys.biz.rr.com)
Date: November 01, 2021 09:07AM
nshapiro
This was discussed 5 years ago. Depressing that college hockey has followed the poor implementation of the NHLSwampy
jtwcornell91
ugarte
love 3x3 sorry! (do not love 55% but would probably be fine if we could negotiate this to, say, 70%)
I've just barely got used to the 3-2-1-0 point system in international/European hockey, but accepting an OT win as 55% of a win is a lot harder than 2/3 of a win. (I'd be reasonably happy with a 5-4-3-2-1-0 system where you lost a point for going to OT, and the shootout after a tie counted for 1/4 as much as the rest of the game.)
+1
[elf.elynah.com]
LGR14
KeithK
The non-constant point value is a horrible feature of the OT rules and has been since the beginning. Neil and/or Jeff's suggestions would at least eliminate this quirk. But getting rid of the OT gimmicks is really the answer.jkahn
I agree with Greg, and the biggest thing that has bugged me about the NHL system is that each game should have the same total point value. Is winning one game in overtime and losing another in overtime really 50% better than a 3 period win and a 3 period loss? Now that the NHL has gone to the exciting but gimmicky 3 on 3 overtime, at least I'd like to see a 3-2-1-0 point value for NHL games, with the 2-1 covering both overtimes and shootouts. In effect then, an o't or shootout win would only be worth 1.33x what it was worth in the old system where teams divided 2 points.Trotsky
[elf.elynah.com]nshapiro
I am ok with the shootout, but the effect should be de-emphasized, especially the creation of the extra point in the standings.
Each game should be worth 5 points -
5 - regulation win
4 - overtime win
3 - shootout win
2 - shootout loss
1 - overtime loss
0 - regulation loss
No. No, no, no, no, no. No.
The ECAC does this one thing exactly right, and everyone from mites to the NHL should adopt it and then leave it alone forever.
I've also never liked the idea of playing with a different rule set in OT than used in the rest of the game. Adding gimmicky rules in special situations to add "excitement" just diminishes the game. If OT with fewer than five skaters per side is a good idea then why not use it in the playoffs too?
For the same reason that we don't use 20 minute overtimes in the regular season: it's just different.
In addition, teams have a reason to try to play for a tie in the regular season. Having 10 skaters on the ice allows a team playing for the tie to completely clamp down and clog everything. This is bad from an entertainment perspective and from a perspective that argues we want teams to play for the win.
Contrastingly, neither team plays for a tie in the postseason (obviously), and thus 5-on-5 isn't a hinderance.
Turn on Caps-Penguins for OT right now: both teams are going to be flying up and down. That will not happen in the ECAC (unless you get a situation like Harvard-Cornell a couple years ago where both teams really want the win and have nothing to lose)
Yeah, 3 on 3 is so good that with a penalty they add players rather than subtract. They go to 4 on 3 for a penalty. When the penalty is over, it's 4 on 4 till the next whistle. Then it's back to 3 on 3. Guess what they do for 2 men down.
Boy do I love this rule.
I'm just too old, I guess.
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Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: jtwcornell91 (Moderator)
Date: November 01, 2021 12:27PM
Jim Hyla
nshapiro
This was discussed 5 years ago. Depressing that college hockey has followed the poor implementation of the NHLSwampy
jtwcornell91
ugarte
love 3x3 sorry! (do not love 55% but would probably be fine if we could negotiate this to, say, 70%)
I've just barely got used to the 3-2-1-0 point system in international/European hockey, but accepting an OT win as 55% of a win is a lot harder than 2/3 of a win. (I'd be reasonably happy with a 5-4-3-2-1-0 system where you lost a point for going to OT, and the shootout after a tie counted for 1/4 as much as the rest of the game.)
+1
[elf.elynah.com]
LGR14
KeithK
The non-constant point value is a horrible feature of the OT rules and has been since the beginning. Neil and/or Jeff's suggestions would at least eliminate this quirk. But getting rid of the OT gimmicks is really the answer.jkahn
I agree with Greg, and the biggest thing that has bugged me about the NHL system is that each game should have the same total point value. Is winning one game in overtime and losing another in overtime really 50% better than a 3 period win and a 3 period loss? Now that the NHL has gone to the exciting but gimmicky 3 on 3 overtime, at least I'd like to see a 3-2-1-0 point value for NHL games, with the 2-1 covering both overtimes and shootouts. In effect then, an o't or shootout win would only be worth 1.33x what it was worth in the old system where teams divided 2 points.Trotsky
[elf.elynah.com]nshapiro
I am ok with the shootout, but the effect should be de-emphasized, especially the creation of the extra point in the standings.
Each game should be worth 5 points -
5 - regulation win
4 - overtime win
3 - shootout win
2 - shootout loss
1 - overtime loss
0 - regulation loss
No. No, no, no, no, no. No.
The ECAC does this one thing exactly right, and everyone from mites to the NHL should adopt it and then leave it alone forever.
I've also never liked the idea of playing with a different rule set in OT than used in the rest of the game. Adding gimmicky rules in special situations to add "excitement" just diminishes the game. If OT with fewer than five skaters per side is a good idea then why not use it in the playoffs too?
For the same reason that we don't use 20 minute overtimes in the regular season: it's just different.
In addition, teams have a reason to try to play for a tie in the regular season. Having 10 skaters on the ice allows a team playing for the tie to completely clamp down and clog everything. This is bad from an entertainment perspective and from a perspective that argues we want teams to play for the win.
Contrastingly, neither team plays for a tie in the postseason (obviously), and thus 5-on-5 isn't a hinderance.
Turn on Caps-Penguins for OT right now: both teams are going to be flying up and down. That will not happen in the ECAC (unless you get a situation like Harvard-Cornell a couple years ago where both teams really want the win and have nothing to lose)
Yeah, 3 on 3 is so good that with a penalty they add players rather than subtract. They go to 4 on 3 for a penalty. When the penalty is over, it's 4 on 4 till the next whistle. Then it's back to 3 on 3. Guess what they do for 2 men down.
Boy do I love this rule.
I'm just too old, I guess.
To be fair, penalties are handled in basically the only reasonably way given the other constraints. But monkeying with OT seems like basically a problem in search of a solution. (Between College Football's 2-point-conversion derby, MLB putting a runner on second base in extra innings, and 3x3/shootouts in hockey, it seems like there's a lot of messing with the post-regulation rules.)
Re: Lynah now at full capacity
Posted by: jtwcornell91 (Moderator)
Date: December 15, 2021 12:50PM
marty
Dafatone
What does it count as for RPI? The pairwise is practically just RPI with the occasional wrinkle. Looks like a tie to me, or maybe the same 55% stuff.
Good fodder for JTW's students, but not so much for my vintage brain.
We're working on the page proofs now, but here's the preprint: [arxiv.org]
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