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Discussions about the Cornell men's and women's hockey teams
Re: 2020-02-28: Cornell 5 St. Lawrence 0 - 4 years ago
"every sports teams tens of millions"? Nah. And they don't analyze the numbers. They analyze the actions.The difference is significant.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Opponent News 19-20 - 4 years ago
Old Ez had the ideas before he had the money. His wealth didn't come from outworking the other white guys.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: 2020-02-28: Cornell vs St. Lawrence - 4 years ago
People who bet on their analysis of past horse races, even those people who collect, organize and analyze gigabytes of horse history, these are the people who keep the tracks open, pay the staff, and keep the stables clean. If college hockey were to allow and oversee scientific, data based systems of betting on games then college hockey would not only be self-supporting but turn a profit.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: 2020-02-28: Cornell vs St. Lawrence - 4 years ago
Nope. I am saying that the guys who run horse tracks and make the odds and the money don't assemble mountains of data about past horse races, then study, re-arrange, and invent probabilities from the data in order to determine the odds. That's for the suckers who keep racetracks in business.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: 2020-02-28: Cornell vs St. Lawrence - 4 years ago
Bottom line: Past performance is not a reliable predictor of future sports events, and 25 pages of past performance charts are no more reliable a predictor of future sports events than ten pages - and may even be less reliable. GO RED!by osorojo - Hockey
Re: 2020-02-28: Cornell vs St. Lawrence - 4 years ago
An "upset" only occurs when someone interprets data to select a "favorite" (a good, honest word) but that someone somehow manages to screw up. In a world where data interpretation was hard science there would be no upsets and no sports fans, only data geeks.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: 2020-02-28: Cornell vs St. Lawrence - 4 years ago
Respect every opponent. Think and play one game at a time. Don't turn your mind into a spreadsheet.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Polls 2019-20 - 4 years ago
Bag the hysteria. A regrettable portion of what calls itself "statistics" is hogwash, no matter how many decimal places and pages of numbers the vendor of statistical "truth" or even "probability" offers. What percentage of statisticians are filthy rich? Numbers are fun to play with but real life is not a binary exercise.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Polls 2019-20 - 4 years ago
Come on, admit it: Free-lance statisticians consciously or not seek and sort data which supports their previous conclusions. Monaco. Reno, and Vegas were founded and survive because of this human peculiarity.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Polls 2019-20 - 4 years ago
Nah. The most prolific statisticians assume there's a correlation and then set out to find and select the data which confirms their hypothesis. Ask around.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Polls 2019-20 - 4 years ago
It will take me a couple years to collective data, more time to organize it and assemble it in handy spreadsheets. I'll keep stringent cost records and charge only enough to cover my expenses - paper, ink, hours on the Sunway TaihuLight Computer . . .by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Polls 2019-20 - 4 years ago
I have found a great deal of correlation between ice temperature at a specific point in a game* and the success of certain teams. This information will not come cheap, let alone free, since it's based on physical evidence and hard data. * it also factors in the amount of rocker and bevel in the skate blades of key skaters.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Lake Placid ECACs dining, drinking, lodging - 4 years ago
Saranac Lake is only seven miles down the road From Lake Placid.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: 2020-02-21: Cornell 4 Yale 0 - 4 years ago
Apparently no-one is willing to quantify the accuracy of predictions based upon the charts, graphs, and data compilations presented on this site, but I may be wrong.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: 2020-02-21: Cornell 4 Yale 0 - 4 years ago
Which one of the statisticians here has the best record for predicting upcoming games, versus analyzing past games? I'm retired and hate to waste precious time perusing column upon column of numerical historical examples leading to false conclusions. Honest. Who has the most successful record as a predictor of future games? I can read CHN for hockey history.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Bracketology for 2020 NCAAs - 4 years ago
Has anyone ever used advanced statistical methods to determine the accuracy of past predictions of hockey game winners or the accuracy of past playoff seeding predictions? Please advise. I hate to waste my time studying inaccurate computations when I could be assessing promises made by presidential candidates.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: 2020 ECAC Playoff Possibilities Stuff - 4 years ago
Simple solution: The Red runs the table. My extensive retrofitted steep grade analysis comparing offsides to attendance proves the Red Men have the talent to do so.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Bracketology for 2020 NCAAs - 4 years ago
Ice hockey is exclusively played on ice. Bracketology can be played on cell phones.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: 2020-02-14: Cornell 5 Union 2 - 4 years ago
This call is all the more critical since it involves a team ranked number #53 against a team ranked #3.Union could have jumped up to 49th with a tie, even higher with a win.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Polls 2019-20 - 4 years ago
I expect Coach Schafer spends more time coaching individual team members about their duties and responsibilities on penalty kills than he devotes to lecturing the entire team, gathered in a circle, about group penalty kills.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Polls 2019-20 - 4 years ago
I hate it when a bunch of sissies/socialists say "Everyone gets equal credit and everyone takes equal blame." Heroes and villains, not consortiums and conglomerates, are what make sports and life interesting.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Polls 2019-20 - 4 years ago
If Belicheck is a paragon of coaches Carlo Ponzi is a paragon of investors.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Polls 2019-20 - 4 years ago
Jeff: Speaking of "Wholes" I am pleased to see another Cornell hockey fan whose interests go beyond statistics.I was worried the dweebs had completed their conquest.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Polls 2019-20 - 4 years ago
Thanks.For a while I feared that C.U. hockey fans had lost touch with reality - the best part of it!by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Polls 2019-20 - 4 years ago
I have worked for people who criticized everyone involved when one person's lack of effort/performance was the proximate cause of failure, and I suspect you have too. They were lousy leaders. I don't parse group leadership into separate styles: one for business, one for sports for example. People who mistake the whole for the part are seldom successful.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Polls 2019-20 - 4 years ago
I suspect the most successful coaches use the word "you" rather than "we" when ascribing blame. Nobody wants to share the blame for someone else's mistakes. Unfortunately, I don't have the numbers/statistics to defend this claim.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Polls 2019-20 - 4 years ago
"Our penalty killing sucked" - Coach Schafer Now THAT's the kind of factual information I prefer about a hockey game. It's crystal clear, without decimal points, and conveys a bit of human emotion without a hint of pseudoscience.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Polls 2019-20 - 4 years ago
Good questions deserve good answers. I visit this site to read facts and opinions about Cornell hockey games, preferably written in English. Beyond what's revealed in the box score I little enjoy and learn less about Cornell Hockey from charts, graphs, and columns of statistics - but then I'm retired and I don't have to put up with that crap any more.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Polls 2019-20 - 4 years ago
Nah. Too visceral, excuse the pun. Instead use numbers exclusively. If not, why are we building more super-cooled, solid rhodium computers fed and served by swarms of numbers-bearing supplicants?by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Polls 2019-20 - 4 years ago
Regardless of pages of statistics and complicated long-division there is only one credible way to discover which team is better . . .by osorojo - Hockey