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Re: Cornell @ RPI, 2/9 - 2 months ago
Trotsky chimpfood Trotsky chimpfood We should be cheering for Q, no?No. Let's try catching them. Same number of GP vs all ECAC teams.yeah but considering the quality win bonus and how the pairwise omits losses that hurt RPI I think a Saint Lawrence win would be worse for our pairwise.Oh. Maybe so. I'd ask Adam, but he hates me now. heh - the Pairwise omits WINS that hurt RPI. Not losses.by adamw - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 2 months ago
BearLover adamw BearLover Chris '03 BearLover Can somebody please plot a graph with # of draft picks on the X axis and that team’s PWR on the Y axis, to test the correlation? Current RPI vs Picks: Also, quick question: from where did you derive the number of picks on each team? I know BU and BC each have 14, but the graph stops at 13. The CHN rosters are missing some drafted players, if that’sby adamw - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 2 months ago
BearLover Chris '03 BearLover Chris '03 BearLover Can somebody please plot a graph with # of draft picks on the X axis and that team’s PWR on the Y axis, to test the correlation? Current RPI vs Picks: Awesome job, thank you! One note—I think the correlation doesn’t jump off the page as much as it would if the scale of the Y-axis were adjusted for the fact that RPI ranges from 42% to 62% (excluby adamw - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 2 months ago
BearLover Chris '03 BearLover Can somebody please plot a graph with # of draft picks on the X axis and that team’s PWR on the Y axis, to test the correlation? Current RPI vs Picks: Also, quick question: from where did you derive the number of picks on each team? I know BU and BC each have 14, but the graph stops at 13. The CHN rosters are missing some drafted players, if that’s where you got tby adamw - Hockey
Re: Odds of winning 2024 NCAAs - 2 months ago
BearLover Trotsky Adam's CHN podcast talks about the home NC$$ seed issue this week. I forgot how amazingly smooth his voice is, it's a pleasure to listen to him. Wow, the Denver coach sounded smart and made some persuasive arguments. After listening to that, I am firmly in the camp of playing the first two rounds of the tournament at schools. Though Carle made a number of good points, one key tby adamw - Hockey
Re: Odds of winning 2024 NCAAs - 2 months ago
Trotsky Adam's CHN podcast talks about the home NC$$ seed issue this week. I forgot how amazingly smooth his voice is, it's a pleasure to listen to him. Your transparent attempts at buttering me up now will not workby adamw - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 2 months ago
The Rancor Trotsky Kariya would have just played somewhere else. I always wondered who else recruited him. He did come out of BC when the McCutcheon pipeline was at its peak. What is the back story here? I remember Walsh getting popped for taking money from boosters. Was Kariya also? I don't recall anything about Walsh taking money from boosters. And even if he did, I don't think that's aby adamw - Hockey
Re: Clarkson at Cornell, 2/3 - 2 months ago
Trotsky Dafatone marty arugula Up to 14, barely! And Western Michigan is winning. We'll likely be back in 15 soon. We're still 14th! St. Cloud lost. Western Michigan won on the road against Denver and went all the way up to 10th.On CHN we are 8th in Pairwise Won-Loss %, "the team's winning percentage when factoring that OTs (3-on-3) now only count as 2/3 win and 1/3 loss," and Wby adamw - Hockey
Re: St. Lawrence at Cornell, 2/2 - 3 months ago
Dunc marty adamw I realize everyone only sees things through their own lens - but Rich is right - it's like this everywhere. It's harder to get people to go - and, if they go, to get them to be loud. Heck, trying comparing concert crowds of today to yesteryear. It's a combination of everything - cost, being able to watch nice video streams, and the cell phone culture. Add it all up. That saby adamw - Hockey
Re: St. Lawrence at Cornell, 2/2 - 3 months ago
Trotsky adamwBut these "watch lists" (for all the awards) are worth as much as the digital ink they're printed on. They're nothing more than an excuse for SIDs to send out more press releases.What are they? I've never heard of them before. Are they put out by conferences to promote their players? What, watch lists? Like I said, just an excuse to send out press releases. Mainly by schby adamw - Hockey
Re: St. Lawrence at Cornell, 2/2 - 3 months ago
I realize everyone only sees things through their own lens - but Rich is right - it's like this everywhere. It's harder to get people to go - and, if they go, to get them to be loud. Heck, trying comparing concert crowds of today to yesteryear. It's a combination of everything - cost, being able to watch nice video streams, and the cell phone culture. Add it all up. That said, it's still prby adamw - Hockey
Re: St. Lawrence at Cornell, 2/2 - 3 months ago
Trotsky Robertson on the "watch list" for the Tim Taylor Award (NCAA ROTY). No Cornellian has ever won it. I think Ben Robertson is going to be outstanding, and a fine young man ... But these "watch lists" (for all the awards) are worth as much as the digital ink they're printed on. They're nothing more than an excuse for SIDs to send out more press releases. One of theby adamw - Hockey
Re: Cornell at Dartmouth, 1/27 - 3 months ago
BearLover jkahn adamw BearLover adamw BearLover arugula Appears that the pwr is not changed. Cornell lost RPI in the PWR. Because it was in OT and on the road, it wasn’t as bad as it otherwise would have been against the 44th ranked team. But we dropped from ~.5528 to .5500, meaning we are closer to 16, and farther from 14, than we were when the night began. A drop is a drop - though it came frby adamw - Hockey
Re: Cornell at Dartmouth, 1/27 - 3 months ago
jkahn adamw BearLover adamw BearLover arugula Appears that the pwr is not changed. Cornell lost RPI in the PWR. Because it was in OT and on the road, it wasn’t as bad as it otherwise would have been against the 44th ranked team. But we dropped from ~.5528 to .5500, meaning we are closer to 16, and farther from 14, than we were when the night began. A drop is a drop - though it came from SOS, noby adamw - Hockey
Re: Cornell at Harvard, 1/26 - 3 months ago
dag14 adamw RichHAlso, I wanted to deny that the autocorrect in my message indicates any Pennsylvania gas station food chain preference. Living in Denver now, I long for either. And a good chicken parm sandwich. And a bagel that isn't soggy or cost $15. Rosenberg's. Not cheap but bagels equal to any I ever had in Ithaca or NYC. Can't help with the chicken parm sandwich, unfortunately. Likby adamw - Hockey
Re: Cornell at Dartmouth, 1/27 - 3 months ago
BearLover adamw BearLover arugula Appears that the pwr is not changed. Cornell lost RPI in the PWR. Because it was in OT and on the road, it wasn’t as bad as it otherwise would have been against the 44th ranked team. But we dropped from ~.5528 to .5500, meaning we are closer to 16, and farther from 14, than we were when the night began. A drop is a drop - though it came from SOS, not from the rby adamw - Hockey
Re: Cornell at Harvard, 1/26 - 3 months ago
RichHAlso, I wanted to deny that the autocorrect in my message indicates any Pennsylvania gas station food chain preference. Living in Denver now, I long for either. And a good chicken parm sandwich. And a bagel that isn't soggy or cost $15.by adamw - Hockey
Re: Cornell at Dartmouth, 1/27 - 3 months ago
BearLover3x3 OT and shootouts add so much excitement to a game that otherwise would have ended in a tie that I think they are rightfully here to stay. To me, the interesting question is how to weight them because they’re so much different from the rest of a hockey game. Not using either 3x3 or shootouts in the playoffs, and weighting shootouts as nothing for the PWR and as just a point in the staby adamw - Hockey
Re: Cornell at Dartmouth, 1/27 - 3 months ago
BearLover arugula Appears that the pwr is not changed. Cornell lost RPI in the PWR. Because it was in OT and on the road, it wasn’t as bad as it otherwise would have been against the 44th ranked team. But we dropped from ~.5528 to .5500, meaning we are closer to 16, and farther from 14, than we were when the night began. A drop is a drop - though it came from SOS, not from the result itself. Siby adamw - Hockey
Re: Cornell at Harvard, 1/26 - 3 months ago
RichH upprdeck if go on any kind of a run we get our RPI above .5600 and we move up 3-5 spots.. Are we good enough to do that. Like unbeaten in their last 7? That kind of run? Some of us need to chill out about the PWR situation in January and enjoy the rest of the regular season. We’ve barely begun the 2nd half of the league slate. Things are typically still fluid into March. Sheetz. I wiby adamw - Hockey
Re: Odds of winning 2024 NCAAs - 3 months ago
Trotsky adamwThey stopped allowing Michigan to host at Yost 20 years ago, for this reason. Michigan hasn't hosted a Regional since.Not relevant. Hosting the regional 3 hours from your building is buying a home game. It does not have to be on campus. I don't know why your back is up on an opinion like this. The fuck cares? The NC$$ will do whatever generates the most revenue; fairness willby adamw - Hockey
Re: Odds of winning 2024 NCAAs - 3 months ago
Trotsky adamw TrotskyIt is the right thing to do. The temptation will be to make the games best-of-three. TBH, I'd back that as well. Anything to stop the factory schools with big rinks from buying their way to the F4, the way it is now. This makes no sense, Mr. I Hate Sports Journalists. The factory schools with big rinks are all the ones clamoring to go back to campus - precisely becausby adamw - Hockey
Re: Odds of winning 2024 NCAAs - 3 months ago
TrotskyIt is the right thing to do. The temptation will be to make the games best-of-three. TBH, I'd back that as well. Anything to stop the factory schools with big rinks from buying their way to the F4, the way it is now. This makes no sense, Mr. I Hate Sports Journalists. The factory schools with big rinks are all the ones clamoring to go back to campus - precisely because they DON'T hby adamw - Hockey
Re: ECAC 2024 Discussion Thread - 3 months ago
Trotsky That was, unexpectedly, a good article. Bravo CHN. no one accepts kudos, when you preface with "unexpectedly"by adamw - Hockey
Re: Cornell vs Arizona State, 12/30 7:30 pm - 4 months ago
DafatoneI think we're definitely in better shape now than we were. Uscho/chn don't seem interested in updating the pairwise tonight, don't know what you're looking at - but the Pairwise literally updates on CHN as each result comes in. It's recalculated on the fly. It did so tonight, like every other night.by adamw - Hockey
Re: Cornell vs UMass at Lake Placid -- 12/29 4 pm - 4 months ago
TrotskyNo conference back then. Those were invitational exhibitions at gorgeous barns in weird places. There was sorta a conference thenby adamw - Hockey
Re: University of Minnesota Duluth @ Cornell , 10/28/23 - 6 months ago
Iceberg Duluth came out better today but it still wasn't enough to match the home team. I suspect they'll be in the lower half of the NCHC by the end of the year but that still doesn't take away from Cornell's showing given the significant change in personnel Duluth will be 5th at worst. I predict 3rd.by adamw - Hockey
Re: 2023-2024 Predictions - 6 months ago
BearLover adamw BearLover—Cornell has only 2 seniors, one of whom is the third string goalie. They do not have enough experience to compete for a national title this year. My best guess is the finish in the 20s in the Pairwise. This isn't just a reaction to last night - because I said it on our CHN podcast 2 weeks ago ... and if you want to hear it, go listen to the podcast But all I'll saby adamw - Hockey
Re: 2023-2024 Predictions - 6 months ago
BearLover—Cornell has only 2 seniors, one of whom is the third string goalie. They do not have enough experience to compete for a national title this year. My best guess is the finish in the 20s in the Pairwise. This isn't just a reaction to last night - because I said it on our CHN podcast 2 weeks ago ... and if you want to hear it, go listen to the podcast But all I'll say is - that predby adamw - Hockey
Re: Polls - 1 year ago
Trotsky adamwthe average NCAA athlete's academic performance is superior to the general population. Huh. Where there is great institutional pressure to keep athletes eligible, they get better grades than other students. Go figure. Next you'll be saying Prep School kids get better grades than students at public high schools. I just cannot imagine why. This is all true. It doesn't take awby adamw - Hockey