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[Lax] Designing a lacrosse-specific PWR - 22 years ago
I'm starting this discussion here rather than on laxpower because I wanted to clarify some of the discussion of appropriate criteria without being buried in the rants going on over the Hofstra-Duke discussion. The current PWR-for-lax page just uses the hockey selection criteria, but the lacrosse handbook spells out its own selection criteria, and we could build a system around that. Here are thby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: [Lax] PWR bug? - 22 years ago
Aha, found it. The module calculating the PWCs was still using last 16, but all the tables were using last 8. It's fixed now.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
According to the statistician's manual - 22 years ago
Section 8, article 3: Penalties are considered to still be in effect at the moment of expiration, 2:00 (or 5:00 for majors) after they begin. A Team White goal scored at the 2:00 mark of a Team Blue minor penalty is considered a power-play goal. So I was wrong. In fact, Article 4 goes on to say that a team can be perfect on a major power play if they score at the moment it expires. They alsoby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: 5 minute majors and PP%? - 22 years ago
Actually, I think it's 2/3 in any event. If there's no penalty time on the clock when the goal is scored, it's not a PPG. I'm not sure if it says that explicitly, although I believe I read something in the scorer's rules that no goal can be scored at 20:00 of a period; even if they don't drop the puck at center ice after the goal, it still goes down at 19:59. BTW, the NCAA rules are on line atby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: [Lax] PWR bug? - 22 years ago
Yikes. Looks wrong to me, especially from the breakdown I'll check it out this evening.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Hofstra - 22 years ago
No, and in fact what they said on the show went against the most likely reason Duke was let in. The host said the RPI would be the most important thing. But the main thing Duke had going for them over Hofstra was more "quality" wins against the top teams, which is (for some reason) the NCAA's highest priotity selection criterion.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
The committee saith... - 22 years ago
Cornell and Duke are in. Hofstra and Loyola are out. We play Stony Brook at Brown on Saturday.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: New lax RPI page - 22 years ago
These things are possible (in fact I'm planning to write a pseudo-sorting routine for next season's hockey rankings which allows for ties in the rankings), but I haven't taken the time to implement them. You should pay attention to the records rather than the rankings for the top 5/10/15 columns.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
At-large contenders - 22 years ago
Teams in the running for the last two at-large berths. I'm still not sure if the opponents' percentage column is the right one for strength of schedule, nor exactly what the committee is supposed to do with it. ___vs_Top__ ___RPI___ _Opp_Pct_ 5 10 15 ________Top_15_wins_________ Hofstra (11-3) #6 .6394 #12 .7857 0-2 2-2 3-3 #8 UMass, #9by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: [Lax] NCAA Prospects - 22 years ago
How do you get Maryland in? They're #13 in the RPI and 2-4 against the top 15, with the only wins coming against #10 Yale and #12 UNC.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
New lax RPI page - 22 years ago
I got tired of trying to read my tables of selection criteria to see how many "quality wins" Cornell, Duke, and Loyola had, so I did a new version of the lacrosse RPI page which includes records against the top 5, 10, and 15 (inclusive). Also, the team names are now links to a list of the team's opponents in RPI order, with 1-5, 6-10, and 11-15 teams highlighted in different colors.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Teams Under Consideration - 22 years ago
Thanks; I re-ran the script with Hobart as a TUC and modified the definition on the PWR page. I wasn't going to bother with the AQ-as-TUC business, but I saw in the NCAA Lax Champs Handbook that the literal definition as "Team Under Consideration" applies, since only teams with .500 or better records are allowed to get at-large bids.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Stupid RPI tricks - 22 years ago
So, I was surprised to see that Hofstra passed us in the RPI even though we won and they were idle. So I ran the numbers including all games except Cornell-Hobart, including all games, and including all games through Friday. It turns out that the Hobart game did not effect our RPI at all (to four significant figures). Our winning percentage went up by .0192 but our opponents' winning percentagby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Final RPI numbers - 22 years ago
Well, the games have all been played, and I just crunched the numbers. See We stay #6 in the RPI, but drop to #10 (ouch!) in Opp Pct which is apparently the NCAA's schedule strength measure. (How dare we play Hobart!) Unfortunately, staying at #6 is actually a slip: we passed UMass (who are in anyway on an AQ), but idle Hofstra somehow managed to pass us! So if they went by RPI alone, we woby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Dartmouth-Harvard? - 22 years ago
Anyone got a score for the Dartmouth-Harvard game? There's no result on laxpower, and lax.com has 0-0 as the score.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
[Lax] NCAA Prospects - 22 years ago
Can someone please remind me who's got the auto-bids wrapped up? The NCAA's "primary criteria" in evaluating won-lost record and strength of schedule (which are to be considered along with "eligibility and availability of student-athletes"--can you imagine if superstar injuries were considered in the NFL tiebreakers) are (1) "results against teams in descending ordeby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Albuquerque - 22 years ago
Bad hockey memories for me. I got back from watching Utah lose 9-2 to UNM Friday night to learn about the 11-0 debacle at the Whale. Saturday, the Utes spotted the Ice Wolves five goals in the first 31 minutes, then came all the way back to pull to within 6-5 on a 6-on-4 PPG in the final minute and hit the post with 6 seconds to play. (30 of Utah's 58 shots that game came in the third period.)by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Jersey Font? - 22 years ago
Although the basic design has been basically the same since the 1980s (and thank goodness for that), I get the impression the exact font and spacing of the letters in "CORNELL" has changed around somewhat. (Just compare game jerseys from the past decade.)by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Stupid question - 22 years ago
I think the answer Jeff was looking for was "because there are no ties in lacrosse".by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Lineage - 22 years ago
So, Modell gave the franchise to the league in exchange for an expansion franchise in Baltimore with all his players and staff? That's frelled up. So I guess it's more like the Dallas Texans or Washington Senators, a team that periodically forms and then moves someplace else and changes its name.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: NCAA Tournament Expansion - 22 years ago
DeltaOne81 '03 wrote: Of course, then you have situations like Hershey who has always had a team named the Hershey Bears for, what, 50 years now? But, if I remember correctly, the franchise is not the same. Sorta like the Cleveland Browns?by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: TBRW? Awards - 22 years ago
No, it was a good link back in 1998 when I wrote the RMCHA page. It was a table of the ECAC leaders in penalty minutes per game played. You can guess who #1 was. In fact, I just found its new location: Aside to Melissa: how's that anti-Alzheimer's drug coming along?by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: NCAA Tournament Expansion - 22 years ago
Doesn't Lynah not have enough locker rooms to host a regional? Or did they fix that in the last renovation?by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Manderville? - 22 years ago
So, is Manderville no longer playing with Carolina?by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Revision of College Hockey Ratings for Lacrosse Pages - 22 years ago
Since the lack of context seemed to be confusing people outside the eLF who'd come across the link (the preview of the Brown game quoted my RPI without noting (or perhaps realizing) that it used a different weighting than the one the NCAA presumably uses for lacrosse), I clarified some of the patter at and also distinguished "Hockey RPI" from "NCAA RPI". The good news is thaby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
After one... - 22 years ago
Still scoreless at Schoellkopf and lonely in the chat.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
And before Greg chimes in... - 22 years ago
Yes, I just said "precision" when I meant "accuracy". The statements I was correcting were actually overly precise; they unambiguously said something other than what they meant.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: [Lax] Brown home finale - 22 years ago
You'll have to forgive us scientists (and lawyers) for placing so much emphasis on precision in writing. Pedantry is something of an occupational hazard.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: [Lax] Brown home finale - 22 years ago
Ben '03 wrote: It's simple, we win out and we should get in (either an AQ or an at-large). . .if we don't we're stayin' home. Again, not strictly true. If we lose to Brown we're probably stayin' home, although I'm not prepared to make any firm predictions about lacrosse tournament selections. If we beat Brown and Princeton falters, we get the AQ regardless of the outcome of the Hobart game.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey