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Re: Funky Playoff Format - 22 years ago
Yeah, I think that's what they did. I have some memory that Fairbanks actually won their preliminary game, so the #1 and #2 seeds had to choose to pass on them as a quarterfinal opponent.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: PSA: Do not climb over seemless glass - 22 years ago
For sheer spontaneity and jubilation, I think you'd be hard-pressed to top the students climbing over the glass after the regular season win over Harvard in November 1995. Hoping that someday, somehow, we get to tear down Penn's goalposts...by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Funky Playoff Format - 22 years ago
If you're referring to what I think you are, it's not quite as crazy as it sounds. When Alaska-Fairbanks first joined the CCHA, they let them play in the playoffs for a year or two as an "associate member" without playing a conference schedule (which means they had--I believe--a 10-team league and an 11-team playoff). But they decided if they were automatically considered the 11th seeby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Saturday Yale game to be televised - 22 years ago
Given that there's no RealVideo stream, it doesn't seem like direct competition; I'd expect that people who have access to both broadcasts would go with the TV one anyway.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Friday ticket available - 22 years ago
I'm looking to sell an extra ticket in Section C for Friday's game only. In addition to helping out a fellow Faithful, the buyer will also save a dollar, since I'll sell it at the price I paid for it, $11. Drop me an email if you're interested.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Saturday Yale game to be televised - 22 years ago
This is why I got DirecTV. Of course, I will end up attending every televised Cornell game this season (at least pre-NCAAs). Greg, you're welcome to come over to my place and watch the game, as long as you put the right tape in the VCR.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Polls - 22 years ago
The polls continue to be irrelevant through the postseason.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Live Score Updates - 22 years ago
Yeah, sorry, I had dinner commitments both nights, one of which came up at the last moment.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
If The Season Ended Today - 22 years ago
I did another one of those NCAA selection dry runs, if anyone's interested: The fill-in-the-results script will be up in a week, as soon as the remaining games are narrowed down to just the conference tournaments (still too many possibilities to put together anything coherent, although you're welcome to fill them all in by hand at ) Also, if anyone wants to get practice with the fill-in-thby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
You know you've spent too much time in Louisiana in the past year... - 22 years ago
...when you find yourself eating gator sausage and being able to tell it tastes like alligator.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Playoff possibilities - 22 years ago
Record against top 25 RPI would have some of the same sharp cutoff problems as the current "vs TUC" criterion. A more gradual approach would be to produce a strong teams criterion in which each opponent would be weighted by some function that went smoothly from 0 for a winless, tieless team to 1 for an unbeaten, untied team. One possiblity is winning percentage, of course, but this haby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Playoff possibilities - 22 years ago
But accounting for strength of schedule is not quite the same thing as having a criterion which rates a team's performance against good opponents without caring about their performance against poor ones. The vs TUC criterion, like the tiebreakers in several leagues, rewards a team more for beating a good team and losing to a bad one than the other way around. If you really want to be fair, youby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: TUC - 22 years ago
Yes, but the sharp cutoffs mean that looking back and changing one or two seemingly irrelevant results can have a big impact on the selection criteria if it changes who's a TUC, in effect inflating the importance of those results.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: TUC - 22 years ago
Well, I don't know what you can do about the strength of a team changing as the season goes on. After all, ECAC teams that had the misfortune to play Colgate when they were hot have an advantage over those that played them earlier, but no one complains about that. OTOH, both the "vs TUC" criterion and the "Last 16" criterion apply a sharp cutoff which gives some funny resultby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Playoff possibilities - 22 years ago
TUC=Team Under Consideration for the NCAA tournament. This is any eligible D1 team with a record of .500 or above vs eligible D1 teams, or which receives an automatic bid by winning a conference tournament (not CHA).by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: loss vs dartmouth could have been biggest game of season.......... - 22 years ago
To paraphrase a colleague of mine, the significance of the Dartmouth game does not rule out the possibility that you are in fact on crack.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
TUC - 22 years ago
So, another demonstrated weakness of the selection criteria. Good luck trying to get the NCAA to do anything about it.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: The Quints (and we ain't talkin' Dionne here) - 22 years ago
Has the Sunday game ever not been at 7pm? I'd love for it to be earlier, since I have a 6am flight out of Albany Monday, but I'm taking this an another reason to root for a sweep.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: pwr question - 22 years ago
Yeah, that's what I get, too. We'd win comparisons with everyone but BU. Our 14-2 last 16 and 9-3 vs TUC would carry the day. (BU would only win the comparison with us on the strength of common opponents.)by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: pwr question - 22 years ago
Actually, this is just the sort of question that the self-service interface to You Are The Committee was made for. Go to then scroll back until you find the games between Cr and Da and Cr and SL, and change the results so thet Cr wins, then click the form submit button, and the script will re-calculated the PWR.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: waving goodbye - 22 years ago
You beat me to the Bergin reference. I thought he only got a game misconduct for that, but I just checked Kyle's box score at and it's listed there as a DQ.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
slack.net/hockey link fixed! - 22 years ago
Yikes! I've fixed the link now; anyone who encounters a problem with a link in the Schlobotnik pages (other than slack.net being unreachable, about which I can't do anything), please drop me an email ASAP! Thanks!by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Clarkson fight clip @ eLynah - 22 years ago
A butt-end is when a player uses the shaft of the stick above the upper hand to jab or attempt to jab an opposing player. What's the definition of "jab" for the purposes of the rule? Does it include hitting someone with the side of the upper shaft of the stick, or only a "reverse spearing" where the instrument of contact is the end of the knob?by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Cornell in New York Times - 22 years ago
Well, at least they were internally consistent...by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Clarkson fight clip @ eLynah - 22 years ago
Given that Palahicky went after Poapst, while O'Flaherty was the one Pete said was butt-ending him, I presume he's talking about the butt-end clubbing which O'Flaherty can be seen delivering to the facemasks of Palahicky and Cook near the end of the fight, and not about anything that happened anywhere. Otherwise, why would Palahicky have gone after Poapst and not O'Flaherty (who was already in aby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Clarkson fight clip @ eLynah - 22 years ago
Okay, I finally had a chance to see it, and it looked like Palahicky, O'Flaherty and Poapst probably got what they deserved. Palahicky starts the whole thing by levelling Poapst; that brings Bahen skating in to have a go at Palahicky, but Paolini puts him in a bear-hug; Palahicky then starts punching Bahen. At this point, two things happen. Cook and O'Flaherty, who've been duelling behind theby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Hughes salute - 22 years ago
I was remarking to my officemate's wife that it sounds like Hughes should always come in fourth in the short program so she can skate with no pressure in the finals.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Clarkson fight clip @ eLynah - 22 years ago
I'm glad to see that after a few days everyone's emotions have calmed down enough that we can discuss events reasonably. Rich, I think Ben's point about the right penalties being called despite not being able to see who the other Clarkson player was that from where he stood, two Clarkson players deserved to be DQed, although he couldn't say for sure which two. This is just the sort of thing theby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Shameless plug - 22 years ago
Can I ask you to add links for the ECAC finish in a nutshell and the ECAC playoff possibilities script to the answer about magic numbers (as examples in which they're used)? The links are and and I believe my CGI script is now sophisticated enough that those URLs will not change from year to year (i.e., they'll always point to the most recent season for which the stuff exists).by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Punches and Fights. . . - 22 years ago
I'm pretty sure the WCHA used to have a special penalty called "punching" which they could give out to avoid having to hand out fighting DQs. And I'm pretty sure I've also seen incidents in college games where players punched each other without drawing fighting penalties.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey