Alumni in the Pros - April 2009

[KeithK]

[quote ftyuv]
That's not true at all. Style of play, psychology, etc are all factors. You can have a situation where A beat B, and C beats A, but B beats C.  In other words, one could imagine a team that is generally dominant but for whatever reason just doesn't match well against the Ducks. That team would stand a much better chance if some other team knocks the Ducks out for them.[/quote]
While matchups do matter, I don't think you get very many circular comparisons in practice (by abstract measure of ability, not limited sample size results).  Maybe if you're comparing the top three teams in the league who are close to even.  But not when you're comparing a middle of the road team to top teams.

[quote ftyuv]
Think, for instance, about how the mediocre Dolphins always seem to beat the Pats, who are better overall.  At least, that's what I'm told; I have trouble caring enough to follow a sport where plays are 8 seconds long and have two minutes between them. ::snore::[/quote]
Considering that you can't even follow Cornell hockey without video, I am not surprised. :-P

[ftyuv]

At least I know how to use the quote tags!  SNAP!

[KeithK]

[quote ftyuv]At least I know how to use the quote tags!  SNAP![/quote]
In my day we didn't have these WYSIWYG editors for the web. You had to type the HTML by hand and sometimes the bit patterns too.  It was garbled and unformatted and unreadable. And that's the way it was and we liked it!

[Robb]

[quote KeithK]
While matchups do matter, I don't think you get very many circular comparisons in practice (by abstract measure of ability, not limited sample size results).  Maybe if you're comparing the top three teams in the league who are close to even.  But not when you're comparing a middle of the road team to top teams.[/quote]
Depends.  When I was on the Cornell fencing team, there was another guy I could beat fairly consistently, and we had success against others pretty commensurate with what you'd expect.  However, Penn had a guy who had just come off a gold medal win at the junior olympics and was rated #3 or #4 for all North American epee fencers, and my friend would absolutely dominate him in competitions - really bizarre.  He did it on multiple occasions, even winning by a combined 20-5 or 20-6 score in a best 2-of-3 to 10 in the Eastern Regionals one year.  For whatever reason, this guy who could dominate nearly all college fencers just could not beat my friend - he really would have benefited if some else knocked my friend out first.

There's probably more variability of style in a one-on-one sport like fencing (we had several A>B>C>A loops just within the Cornell team), but I do believe matchups matter in hockey, too.

[Rich S]

I'd like to see Bitz and the Bruins match up against Tech's Willie Mitchell and the Canucks in the Cup finals.

Your "favorite" former Clarkson player has become one of the best shut down D-men in the NHL.

Boston has a better shot of getting there unless Luongo can carry Van to the finals.  Interesting next series, last night got VAN off to a good start.

[Swampy]

[quote KeithK][quote ftyuv]At least I know how to use the quote tags!  SNAP![/quote]
In my day we didn't have these WYSIWYG editors for the web. You had to type the HTML by hand and sometimes the bit patterns too.  It was garbled and unformatted and unreadable. And that's the way it was and we liked it![/quote]

In my day, we had to write the HTML out on HTML coding forms, drop them off to be key punched, pick up the cards and a printout the next day, debug the HTML, and take psychedelic drugs to imagine what the way it would look on the web if we had one. And we liked it! ::demented::

[ugarte]

[quote Swampy][quote KeithK][quote ftyuv]At least I know how to use the quote tags!  SNAP![/quote]
In my day we didn't have these WYSIWYG editors for the web. You had to type the HTML by hand and sometimes the bit patterns too.  It was garbled and unformatted and unreadable. And that's the way it was and we liked it![/quote]

In my day, we had to write the HTML out on HTML coding forms, drop them off to be key punched, pick up the cards and a printout the next day, debug the HTML, and take psychedelic drugs to imagine what the way it would look on the web if we had one. And we liked it! ::demented::[/quote]
You'd have liked it just as much if you had skipped all that nerd shit and just taken the drugs.

[ftyuv]

[quote ugarte][quote Swampy][quote KeithK][quote ftyuv]At least I know how to use the quote tags!  SNAP![/quote]
In my day we didn't have these WYSIWYG editors for the web. You had to type the HTML by hand and sometimes the bit patterns too.  It was garbled and unformatted and unreadable. And that's the way it was and we liked it![/quote]

In my day, we had to write the HTML out on HTML coding forms, drop them off to be key punched, pick up the cards and a printout the next day, debug the HTML, and take psychedelic drugs to imagine what the way it would look on the web if we had one. And we liked it! ::demented::[/quote]
You'd have liked it just as much if you had skipped all that nerd shit and just taken the drugs.[/quote]In my day, we decriminalized pot in Massachusetts!!

PARTY ON!!!

[Swampy]

[quote ugarte][quote Swampy][quote KeithK][quote ftyuv]At least I know how to use the quote tags!  SNAP![/quote]
In my day we didn't have these WYSIWYG editors for the web. You had to type the HTML by hand and sometimes the bit patterns too.  It was garbled and unformatted and unreadable. And that's the way it was and we liked it![/quote]

In my day, we had to write the HTML out on HTML coding forms, drop them off to be key punched, pick up the cards and a printout the next day, debug the HTML, and take psychedelic drugs to imagine what the way it would look on the web if we had one. And we liked it! ::demented::[/quote]
You'd have liked it just as much if you had skipped all that nerd shit and just taken the drugs.[/quote]

Yeah, you're right. But I didn't discover that until I was a senior.::doh::

[jy3]

Nice mention of bitz playing well in tonights game. Unfortunately for his team Carolina just scored to go up 3-1.