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Re: How To Be a Good Fan - 19 years ago
>>> Is there a Clarkson cheer that goes "I'm blind, I'm dumb, I study at Cornell"? It's seven syllables short of hai-ku, although one could add, "Fight, fight, fight, go Golden Knights." But it's not the kind of thing you'd ink on ricepaper and hand out.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Vermont misses NCAA's APR threshold - 19 years ago
We like Quinnipiac because we like what we think will become their informal school nickname, and because they'll help make for even more four-point weekends for us and the rest of the league. The real problem is the ECACHL gets no respect once you get below the top five, six teams: Cornell, Harvard, Clarkson/St. Lawrence about half the time, RPI and Colgate and Brown about half the time, nowby billhoward - Hockey
Re: How To Be a Good Fan - 19 years ago
>>> Also, keep in mind that nobody's student section gets into it, INCLUDING the Lynah Faithful, when they're getting killed. From what I hear, Game 3 of last year's playoffs at Lynah was pretty dead, except for all of you getting mad at the Clarkson fan with the trumpet. Regardless of what you thought of him, you gotta admit it takes balls to go to Lynah and do what he did. The kidby billhoward - Hockey
Re: How To Be a Good Fan - 19 years ago
Now Clarkson fans once again learn the reality that a gracious loser is still a, ah, loser. Clarkson/St. Lawrence seem to share a couple ECAC RS or postseason titles every ten years, then go into never-neverland.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: RPI primer (brackets for dummies): Why #2/#3 Cornell may seed lower - 19 years ago
Most online threads degenerate to unpleasantness and name-calling. Here it moves higher and upward in the noblest of Ivy League traditions. While still leaving us time to name-call the Harvard swells. KRACH may be complex mathmatecally, but it may be possible to explain what it does so that people of normal abilities (eg liberal arts majors) have some clue was to what's going on. You don't haby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Polls 2/28 - 19 years ago
If you mean the penalty called against Cornell in the waning minutes against UNH, most people don't think it was a marginal call - it happened, it was obvious, the ref had to call it. It was just not smart hockey by Cornell.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: How To Be a Good Fan - 19 years ago
>>> "SILVERTHORN AND McKEE ARE SIEVES!!! LET THEM KNOW THIS!!!!" 125 minutes played, 3 goals allowed, 1.44 GAA (the average of 2.76GAA and 0.00GAA). Some sieves.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: RPI primer (brackets for dummies): Why #2/#3 Cornell may seed lower - 19 years ago
Second try: KRACH can account for about one-fifth of the explanation of how any game turns out (for games among ~closely matched teams)? As opposed to (my bad interpolation) it can account for the outcome of one of every five games among closely matched teams - you're saying the second interpretation isn't the same as the first?by billhoward - Hockey
Re: How To Be a Good Fan - 19 years ago
Pete Godenschwager Wrote: where's the "shoot spitballs at the opposing fans"? Unneeded instruction. Encoded in Clarkson fan DNA.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Union/Senior Night Photos - 19 years ago
What kind of shutter speed (and ISO) did the spotlighted pictures work out to? I think a couple people in the stands with BIC lighters would have given you another half stop to work with. Pretty impressive.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: RPI primer (brackets for dummies): Why #2/#3 Cornell may seed lower - 19 years ago
>>> Indeed; I neglected to mention in my post (although it's in the excel file if you downloaded it) that the process for finding the variance also tells you, on average, what percentage of the variance in game outcomes is explained by KRACH. In other words, how much of a factor the different KRACH ratings are in determining who wins. This year it's 19% across the whole season so far, anby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Polls 2/28 - 19 years ago
The big sheet of ice in Lake Placid isn't an excuse for Cornell not beating Harvard but it may have been the reason. Remember that the UMass/Amherst rink is near-Olympic, 200x95, and that's one of four NCAA regional sites this year.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: RPI primer (brackets for dummies): Why #2/#3 Cornell may seed lower - 19 years ago
It's possible they're BS'ing us, but it's also possible there's some underlying beauty and symmetry if you apply enough math to all this. But the margin of error is always going to be there and it's as least as great as the sum of all posts and crossbars hit plus Zambonis making double passes across the ice and leaving it wet, and players coming out of the penalty box just as the puck is pasby billhoward - Hockey
Re: ECAC Playoff Predictions! - 19 years ago
As a practical matter, I can see the the possibility of one team (but not two teams) ranked below #4 making it to Albany and that team gets to play Cornell, whereas the #2 and #3 teams sandwiched in the middle will probably also continue on to Albany. As you probably know, no film critic worth his goatee ever picks the same top ten films as any other critic, otherwise it looks like he's not bby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Vermont misses NCAA's APR threshold - 19 years ago
Cornell hockey is at 1000 (something Yale didn't manage). Heh! Although the threat for non-compliance is loss of scholarships. Seems the Ivies are insulated against that problem. <g> There are conflicting studies on whether Ivy (and other elite) athletes are better, same, or worse students than the rest of us. In The Game of Life (James Schulman and ex-Princeton prez Wm Bowen), the authoby billhoward - Hockey
Re: ECAC Playoff Predictions! - 19 years ago
What's the scenario that would give Cornell the clearest, fewest-land-mines path to the ECAC title game? We don't want to lose the title game, but we're going to have a hard time looking good in the NCAA seedings if we're not in the late game in Albany on Saturday. 10 Princeton or 12 Yale have had a couple good games of late (for Yale, good game means one-goal loss and OT loss) and could surpby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Polls 2/28 -> '03 Hobey - 19 years ago
My bad. I forgot the Canadian junior team part. That helped LeNeveu a lot. And secondarily alternating as a freshman with the goalie who won All-America honors in 2001-2002, that helped, too. I always wonder, thinking of the multi-OT game we lost to Harvard for the ECAC title, if Underhill was really the better goalie then in spring 2002. Odds are Schafer had a better handle on the situationby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Polls 2/28 -> '03 Hobey - 19 years ago
It seems that the publicity surrounding LeNeveu was more intense in David's sophomore year than in David II's sophomore year. Maybe because we were (weren't we?) ranked higher sooner in the 2002-03 season ... maybe because the offensive output was a bit lower and so more eyes fell on the defense in '03 ...by billhoward - Hockey
[OT] Format for graphics insert (not attachment) - 19 years ago
What formats can be used to insert a small graphic, say a part of a screenshot or a small bitmap, into the text?by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Confusion about ECACHL championship tickets - 19 years ago
This is one of the several small but nice advantages of being the #1 seed. In the second round it plays the worse (lowest ranked) survivor. And while you can't expect four upsets, it's likely (need to check) that each year there's one upset at least, so you could wind up playing say a Yale or Princeton. If it was strict ordered pairing, we'd play the winner of 8 Union vs. 9 Clarkson. We've had trby billhoward - Hockey
Re: RPI primer (brackets for dummies): Why #2/#3 Cornell may seed lower - 19 years ago
All this discussion might, just might, in some small way move the NCAA to think about more sophisticated statistical means of comparing teams. A columnist trolling these forums gets a column idea ... the column gets printed ... someone helps read the big words to them and evetually the NCAA gets religion. Once you start to use a statistical rating as part of the bid-selection process, you (NCby billhoward - Hockey
Re: RPI primer (brackets for dummies): Why #2/#3 Cornell may seed lower - 19 years ago
Wait, wasn't Bradley-Terry the GOP/Bible Belt bill trying to keep Planned Parenthood from advising girls under 18 ... in the belief that with no contraception, they'd stay celibate?by billhoward - Hockey
Re: INCH Power rankings(on ESPN.com) - 19 years ago
Hmmm, and who would that be beating out Hyphen-Sieve for all- East first team: >>> Hard to believe it's true, but Dov Grumet-Morris's .948 save percentage and 1.58 goals-against average will only be good enough to get second-team All-ECACHL.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Unsung Hero - 19 years ago
Goalies are like quarterbacks: Next to impossible to have two great ones at the same time. One of the two will demand a trade (pro QB) ... leave school ... not come to the school. Conversely, you can have 2-3 great pitchers with no problem and the only question is who gets the Game 1-4-7 starting call.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Unsung Hero - 19 years ago
calgARI '07 Wrote: No, they have been looking for a goalie for next year and almost got one, but he committed elsewhere. I'd imagine they're still looking. From what you've heard, how problematic is it in recruiting a goalie that he's unlikely to see ice time until junior year - given McKee appears headed toward breaking Lou Gehrig's record? There was discussion elsehwhere (here? USCHO?)by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Polls 2/28 - 19 years ago
Keith, there you go again, throwing in facts to try to prove your point. That is so unfair. (But it is one of those bizarre things to see CU almost double CC on first place points and still be in second.) CC seems like a pretty classy school and with, what, just 2000 students, has some real disadvantages compared to say Denver or Wisconsin. And it also seems academically minded. My dream wby billhoward - Hockey
Re: RPI primer (brackets for dummies): Why #2/#3 Cornell may seed lower - 19 years ago
Perhaps goals scored should not be a factor, nor margin of victory. But one might allow a bonus for margin of victory up to say 3 or 4 goals and that would decrease the desire to roll up the score to move up the rankings. The very best sports mathmeticians are not, I bet, on East Hill or at MIT (no offense), but probably in Vegas, because their livelihoods ride on it. And they consider MOV inby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Polls 2/28 - 19 years ago
There is a historical bias against Ivy Schools and Ivy athletes in national polling. A most egregious case was the 1971 Heisman Tropy. Pat Sullivan, the eventual winner, was on most everyone's top three ballot among voters, including in the Northeast, even if it was 2nd or 3rd to Ed Marinaro '72. But in the south especially (Sullivan played at Auburn), many voters left Marinaro off the ballot entby billhoward - Hockey
Re: RPI primer (brackets for dummies): Why #2/#3 Cornell may seed lower - 19 years ago
Thank you, experts, for explaining. There clearly were a number of Ivy-educated RPI-TUC dummies out there who were able to come out of the closet.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: OT: poverty and socialism - 19 years ago
Nothing stops a progressive Republican from favoring health insurance covering those who don't have insurance b/c of their lack of jobs or their crummy jobs. Or stops them from being pro-choice. And still wanting to keep spending in check. As nothing stops a Democrat from favoring capital punishment. He or she will probably not be asked to dine alongside Senator Kennedy.by billhoward - Hockey