You Are The Committee

[RatushnyFan]

I think some people on this board make Trekkies look well-adjusted. :-)

Holiday gift idea for your favorite eLynah friend

[RichH]

[quote RatushnyFan]I think some people on this board make Trekkies look well-adjusted. :-)

Holiday gift idea for your favorite eLynah friend[/quote]

Hey.  It's not like anyone on this forum actually owns a chunk of the old boards from Lynah or anything...  ::whistle::

Also, sports nerdery is generally more socially accepted than sci-fi nerdery.

[ugarte]

[quote RichH]*I* am the Committee??!!  Why didn't anyone notify me?  Sweet!!

OK.  I hereby select the following teams:

1. Cornell
2. American International
3. Bentley
4. UConn
5. U. Illinois-Chicago
6. Kent State
7. Cornell's Club Hockey Team
8. St. Ignatius School for the Blind
9. Maplecrest Senior Rest Home
10. Girl Scout Troop 11, Morristown, Tennessee
11. My friend Bill who only has one leg
12. Brown's Class of 1928[/quote]
I don't know how happy Bill will be when he finds out he got a bid. Probably relieved that he's got the blind folks in the first round.

[nr53]

[quote RichH]
8. St. Ignatius School for the Blind
[/quote]

I hear most of their players want to go pro as refs

[Robb]

[quote ugarte][quote RichH]*I* am the Committee??!!  Why didn't anyone notify me?  Sweet!!

OK.  I hereby select the following teams:

1. Cornell
2. American International
3. Bentley
4. UConn
5. U. Illinois-Chicago
6. Kent State
7. Cornell's Club Hockey Team
8. St. Ignatius School for the Blind
9. Maplecrest Senior Rest Home
10. Girl Scout Troop 11, Morristown, Tennessee
11. My friend Bill who only has one leg
12. Brown's Class of 1928[/quote]
I don't know how happy Bill will be when he finds out he got a bid. Probably relieved that he's got the blind folks in the first round.[/quote]No - he'd get Kent State (top 4 byes, 5-12, 6-11, etc in the first round), unless of course Bill is hosting one of the 6-team regionals or has enough double-secret RPI bonus points to justify some seed-swapping...  /pedant

[Rita]

[quote ugarte][quote RichH]*I* am the Committee??!!  Why didn't anyone notify me?  Sweet!!

OK.  I hereby select the following teams:

1. Cornell
2. American International
3. Bentley
4. UConn
5. U. Illinois-Chicago
6. Kent State
7. Cornell's Club Hockey Team
8. St. Ignatius School for the Blind
9. Maplecrest Senior Rest Home
10. Girl Scout Troop 11, Morristown, Tennessee
11. My friend Bill who only has one leg
12. Brown's Class of 1928[/quote]
I don't know how happy Bill will be when he finds out he got a bid. Probably relieved that he's got the blind folks in the first round.[/quote]

Do the top 4 teams get a bye? If so, "Bill" has to dodge Kent State, The Seniors and the Blind battle it out for the right to face Cornell (unless they reseed after round 1).

Will the concession stands be selling Girl Scout Cookies, courtesy of Troop 11 (hey it is going to take a few tanks of gas to get from TN to CT)?

[CowbellGuy]

[quote RichH]Hey.  It's not like anyone on this forum actually owns a chunk of the old boards from Lynah or anything...  ::whistle::[/quote]
And a piece of one of the bench---err, I mean, who?

[Chris 02]

Has anyone found a way where UMass-Lowell makes the tournament without winning Hockey East?

[Jim Hyla]

[quote Chris 02]Has anyone found a way where UMass-Lowell makes the tournament without winning Hockey East?[/quote]Has anyone tried?:-}

[Chris 02]

[quote Jim Hyla][quote Chris 02]Has anyone found a way where UMass-Lowell makes the tournament without winning Hockey East?[/quote]Has anyone tried?:-}[/quote]

Just responding to Rita's post on the other thread of "It's quiet".

I tried, but was not successful.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

I tried a YATC, with every lower seed beating the higher ranked seed.  We end up 14th in the PWR, but miss the tournament because NMU gets the CCHA autobid.  If I let NMU lose the CCHA championship game to Alaska, we finish 12th.

I also tried the same approach, but instead have us win out (beating SLU in the championship).  We finish 5th in the PWR.  That same result holds regardless of what happens in the CCHA.  Various things in Hockey East move us to a tie for 5th, but for the most part we're indifferent to the HE results, too.  If, however, we beat Yale instead of SLU, we finish 6th behind Yale in 5th.

And there's something about North Dakota winning that is bad for us.  I haven't figured out what it is yet.  But UND winning even one game drops us several positions.  Western bias.

[nyc94]

Duluth leads Minnesota 1-0 after 1 in the WCHA play-in game

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

A little more YATC:  If we lose both games this weekend there are plenty of ways we still make the tournament.  All of them involve North Dakota winning and Duluth not winning another game.  Some of them put us in a 3 way tie with Minny and Duluth for the last two spots.  That could be scary.  Other than that, upsets by the 3 and 4 seeds are generally bad for us.

Just win.

[KeithK]

So far I've run 288 of the remaining 864 possibilities on CHN (33%).  That's every case with Air Force winning the AHA title, except those with a tie in the CCHA consolation (just because, no good reason).  Some observations:

1) As expected, we have almost certainly clinched a bid.  If we beat Yale we'll probably be a #2.  If we lose we're probably a #3.

- 1a) We can still be a #3 if UML and NoDak win.

2) Yale seems locked into the 5 slot and so would be a #2 seed.

3) In almost every case I've run the loser of the ECAC consy staying home and the winner gettign a bid.  Princeton gets the bid with a tie.  However, if Mich, NMU and UMD win and NoDak ties Wisc, SLU could lose out to Minnesota (see #6).

4) The top 4 (BU, ND, DU, Mich) seem pretty locked in. Michigan and Denver can switch places if Michigan wins and Denver loses.

5) Minnesota can still sneak into the tournament.  So far it looks like they need NMU and BU to win tomorrow to give them a chance.

6) Miami has appears to be backing into the tournament even after losing in the CCHA quarterfinals.  They can even get a #3 seed by finishing 12th.

7) Likewise, OSU gets in most of the time if Lowell doesn't beat BU.

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Just completed 24 cases with Mercyhurst winning, which has more effect than I had guessed.  Biggest difference is that Mercyhurst helps Minnesota get in, often at the expense of SLU.

[ugarte]

[quote KeithK]1) As expected, we have almost certainly clinched a bid.  

Have you found a nightmare scenario or are you saying "almost" because you haven't run all of the scenarios?