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Re: Cornell Lacrosse at Army 4/15/23 - 1 year ago
Long ties it, 3:32 remainingby CU77 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2023 - 1 year ago
Army is currently RPI #19. For comparison, Yale is #11, Penn #12, OSU #14 (and Cornell is #6). Cornell needs to keep winning to avoid being Duked. (Last year, Duke was RPI #8 and did not get a bid.)by CU77 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2023 - 1 year ago
Yes, great ball movement, picture-perfect offenseby CU77 - Other Sports
Re: 2023 NCAA 1R: Cornell vs Denver - 1 year ago
Trotsky First shutout by a Cornell goaltender in an NCAA game since The Shutout. Wow!by CU77 - Hockey
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2023 - 1 year ago
Why would he transfer? His older brother Colin was the Rutgers goalie last year (a senior, now graduated, 2nd team AA), and their father also played for Rutgers. CJ vs Colin was the big story line of the Cornell-Rutgers NCAA semifinal game:by CU77 - Other Sports
Re: Wrestling 2022-23 - 1 year ago
Vito and Yianni championship matches: Great quote from the announcer during Yianni's bout: "Cornell looking for its first national champion since 20 minutes ago."by CU77 - Other Sports
Re: Wrestling 2022-23 - 1 year ago
Many thanks for all your great reporting over the season, ugarte!by CU77 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2023 - 1 year ago
You didn't need to tell us 3 times, bill!by CU77 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2023 - 1 year ago
Great to see Long back and apparently at full strength. Having Coyle at X and Long on the wing is not something I would have expected, but it worked! This offense is just so much harder to defend with Long, no matter where he is. In other lax news, PSU loses to Marquette (!) in the Metro Cup on Long Island. Video here, with color commentary by none other than RP3:by CU77 - Other Sports
Re: Bracketology 2023 - 1 year ago
Roy 82 ChatGPT: Cornell finished the regular season with a record of 15-2-2 Um ...by CU77 - Hockey
Re: Bracketology 2023 - 1 year ago
upprdeck But if you are going to use scores, changing from a 75-65 game to an 82-77 game is vastly different than being up 2-0 and the goalie us pulled and winning 4-0.. Two ENGs is pretty rare. And anyway this is just something you have to live with in trying to do rankings in a low-scoring sport. Of course further stats could be used as well. Here, for example, is a pretty fancy pro-hockey rankby CU77 - Hockey
Re: Bracketology 2023 - 1 year ago
adamw CU77The fancy-stats people in pro hockey likely have good ideas about rankings. I don't know what makes you think that. I've seen NHL rankings -- I work for a site that has those too -- and they essentially the same as KRACH. I just assumed they would do something fancy because that's what they do ... also I would want to dig into what "essentially" means; any kind of rankingby CU77 - Hockey
Re: Bracketology 2023 - 1 year ago
adamw CU77In any case Massey probabilities are likely better, as they use more input (scores, locations, times). Times? We do have a home/away version of KRACH. It's not much different. I should use it though. Scores have always been an extremely dubious and debatable thing to use in hockey. I go back and forth on it. Times = early season vs late season results. Scores are data, completelyby CU77 - Hockey
Re: Bracketology 2023 - 1 year ago
adamw CU77 KRACH could be adjusted to do better, as I outlined above. KRACH is a very simple model. The door is open ... I don't care enough to do it myself. In any case Massey probabilities are likely better, as they use more input (scores, locations, times).by CU77 - Hockey
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2023 - polls 3/6/23 - 1 year ago
scoop85Long will be back this year. Good to know! But I hope it's sooner than Aiden Blake came back last year ...by CU77 - Other Sports
Re: Bracketology 2023 - 1 year ago
KRACH could be adjusted to do better, as I outlined above. KRACH is a very simple model.by CU77 - Hockey
Re: Bracketology 2023 - 1 year ago
Well, I would start with KRACH, add some number x of ties against a fictitious team to each team's record, compute KRACH ratings at the end of a regular season for various values of x, then compute predicted records of each team in an all-against-all set of games, and then compare the distribution of the computed winning percentages against the actual distribution of winning percentages in the gaby CU77 - Hockey
Re: Bracketology 2023 - 1 year ago
KRACH probabilities can be improved by adding to every team's record some number of ties against a fictitious "average" team; Ken Butler's original method added one such game, but more gives a better distribution of predicted results.by CU77 - Hockey
Re: Bracketology 2023 - 1 year ago
Better models already exist, eg Massey ratings: His method is proprietary but the results seem reasonable.by CU77 - Hockey
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2023 - 1 year ago
I watched most of the Md-ND game. Both teams are, IMO, playing on a noticably higher level than Cornell.by CU77 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2023 - 1 year ago
CU2007 Hopefully they don’t head to State College LOL! That would definitely be the scenic route to Columbus ...by CU77 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2023 - Ohio State 3/4 - 1 year ago
billhoward will Ohio State try a clampdown on CJ Kirst as others did to Jeff Teat his last 2 years CJ15 has 3 inches and 20 pounds on JT51 (if you believe the roster pages), and therefore is harder to shut off. CJ also has a better head coach than JT did.by CU77 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2023 - 1 year ago
Ierlan has been great. And his outlet passes are fast and crisp.by CU77 - Other Sports
Re: Bracketology 2023 - 1 year ago
KRACH is a decent model for ranking teams from top to bottom, but it hugely overestimates the probability of a higher-ranked team beating a lower-ranked team.by CU77 - Hockey
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2023 - 1 year ago
billhoward How is Michael Long doing? Are we going to see him soon? No one who knows is talking ...by CU77 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2023 - 1 year ago
Game notes: which have some good news! • The game will be broadcast live on ESPN+ with Barry Leonard on the call.by CU77 - Other Sports
Re: St. Lawrence at Cornell 2023-02-18 - 1 year ago
Yes, this is what "weighted by KRACH" means, and yes, KRACH greatly overestimates the win probability of the higher-rated team.by CU77 - Hockey
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2023 - 1 year ago
TimV Also gone then is the capability to listen in the car or at the stadium to play by play. Get the ESPN app on your phone, and listen to the play-by-play audio wherever you are. I'm hoping Barry and Tom will be doing the ESPN call now that WHCU will not be. But even so, I'm gonna miss those tart cherry juice ads ...by CU77 - Other Sports