2023 ECAC Post Season

[Trotsky]

half the places we are trying to recruit you cant even fly to

To be fair, you can barely fly to Ithaca.

Compañía Panameña de Aviación, S.A., the flag carrier of Panama, flies direct to Ithaca from Lima and Bogota.

[ugarte]

half the places we are trying to recruit you cant even fly to

To be fair, you can barely fly to Ithaca.

Compañía Panameña de Aviación, S.A., the flag carrier of Panama, flies direct to Ithaca from Lima and Bogota.

This sounds like something that should be investigated by the campus Greek Council.

[Trotsky]

half the places we are trying to recruit you cant even fly to

To be fair, you can barely fly to Ithaca.

Compañía Panameña de Aviación, S.A., the flag carrier of Panama, flies direct to Ithaca from Lima and Bogota.

This sounds like something that should be investigated by the campus Greek Council.

Or the DEA.

[adamw]

No one made any attempt to check whether weighting by KRACH yields accurate predictions.

Yes, we have: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.04226

Wow, this is amazing. I had no idea! You are one of the authors? I'm going to try my best to read this as a non-math major. (Though feel free to offer the cliff notes if you'd like.)

Yeah notice who else's name is on there (though really, I had little to do with it besides providing data and moral support)

I can't believe we're still talking about this - and complaining over the difference between like 99.7% and 98% - especially when it came true. But here we are.

As I said - I am planning to make additions/alterations to the calc for next season, if I can figure out how. But I also tried to explain -- the point of the Matrix is not to project winners per se. It's to outline - in an automated way, and better than using 50/50 - the number of scenarios in which a team places in certain places in the Pairwise. Because doing so in other ways is arduous, and probably even less accurate. You need to be able to distinguish the difference, and ascertain what the point of it is before complaining about it 472 times every March.

[ugarte]

nevermind

[marty]

No one made any attempt to check whether weighting by KRACH yields accurate predictions.

Yes, we have: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.04226

Wow, this is amazing. I had no idea! You are one of the authors? I'm going to try my best to read this as a non-math major. (Though feel free to offer the cliff notes if you'd like.)

Yeah notice who else's name is on there (though really, I had little to do with it besides providing data and moral support)

I can't believe we're still talking about this - and complaining over the difference between like 99.7% and 98% - especially when it came true. But here we are.

As I said - I am planning to make additions/alterations to the calc for next season, if I can figure out how. But I also tried to explain -- the point of the Matrix is not to project winners per se. It's to outline - in an automated way, and better than using 50/50 - the number of scenarios in which a team places in certain places in the Pairwise. Because doing so in other ways is arduous, and probably even less accurate. You need to be able to distinguish the difference, and ascertain what the point of it is before complaining about it 472 times every March.

Just as long as you and John can get this predicting the future thing figured out by 2026 I'm sure BearLover will forgive you.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

half the places we are trying to recruit you cant even fly to

To be fair, you can barely fly to Ithaca.

Compañía Panameña de Aviación, S.A., the flag carrier of Panama, flies direct to Ithaca from Lima and Bogota.

Actually, Copa is a decent airline.  I've flown them many times.  And PTY is a nice airport,too.