Bracketology 2016-17 Style

[Jim Hyla]

Hockey is played on the ice, not on computers, which is a stretch for a growing number of fans. So far neither the ECAC nor the NCAA has prevented a winning team from winning a championship. It is imperative for a championship team to believe in its own abilities not just to win but to beat everyone, regardless of statistics, until a loss prevents it. It would help if fans shared such a conviction.

Your problem (well, one of your problems) is that you think one-dimensionally. It is possible to 1) believe in one's team's abilities to win and to beat everyone, yet also 2) hope that if one is wrong, and they don't win every single game, external circumstances will benefit the team as well, and therefore have some interest in those external circumstances as they develop. What you're actually suggesting is that if we don't all think the same way you do - believe the team can win, and not consider any other possibilities - the team will not win. Or more to the point, that believing in them hard enough will carry them to the championship.

Cornell men's hockey is not Tinkerbell.

+1

[Scersk '97]

Or more to the point, that believing in them hard enough will carry them to the championship.

Well, I think we can all agree that every time the team loses it's because I didn't believe hard enough.

At least, that's the way I see it, in my world where all the rest of you are just figments of my imagination. I wonder often why I created someone like Hooking in the first place.

[marty]

Or more to the point, that believing in them hard enough will carry them to the championship.

Well, I think we can all agree that every time the team loses it's because I didn't believe hard enough.

At least, that's the way I see it, in my world where all the rest of you are just figments of my imagination. I wonder often why I created someone like Hooking in the first place.

I think I'm catching on here, but can someone please tell me whether it's futile to wear my lucky shirt.

[GBR1234]

If we had beat Colorado College at the Florida Hockey Classic, the pairwise predictor would have CU at #6. A win against Merrimack on  10/28 along with a win against Colorado college would make Big Red #5. Those losses really hurt... in particular, but it also tells us we have a darn good team this year as we approach the tournaments.

[Trotsky]

Or more to the point, that believing in them hard enough will carry them to the championship.

Well, I think we can all agree that every time the team loses it's because I didn't believe hard enough.

At least, that's the way I see it, in my world where all the rest of you are just figments of my imagination. I wonder often why I created someone like Hooking in the first place.

Nice try, but my Bishop Berkeley has assured me that you're all in my head.

[Trotsky]

Down to 11 after tonight's games.  Hrmpf.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Down to 11 after tonight's games.  Hrmpf.

FWIW, I don't think it matters whether we're 9th or 11th, as long as NoDak stays in the 3-band with us.  That means we can't go to Fargo, and have a much better chance of staying east.

[Give My Regards]

Well, I think we can all agree that every time the team loses it's because I didn't believe hard enough.

At least, that's the way I see it, in my world where all the rest of you are just figments of my imagination. I wonder often why I created someone like Hooking in the first place.

"You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!"

[Trotsky]

Down to 11 after tonight's games.  Hrmpf.

FWIW, I don't think it matters whether we're 9th or 11th, as long as NoDak stays in the 3-band with us.  That means we can't go to Fargo, and have a much better chance of staying east.

I worry This Man Has NoDak and some 4 band team will be flipped, leaving us in the Sioux bracket with games against a 2 and then a 1 or a home team, in true Minny/Wisco "see figure one" style.

But that's paranoia; I don't know whether that has ever happened to anybody before.

[Beeeej]

Down to 11 after tonight's games.  Hrmpf.

FWIW, I don't think it matters whether we're 9th or 11th, as long as NoDak stays in the 3-band with us.  That means we can't go to Fargo, and have a much better chance of staying east.

I worry This Man Has NoDak and some 4 band team will be flipped, leaving us in the Sioux bracket with games against a 2 and then a 1 or a home team, in true Minny/Wisco "see figure one" style.

But that's paranoia; I don't know whether that has ever happened to anybody before.

Given how quickly the PWR changed - especially when most of the top 12 teams in it weren't even playing this weekend - I'm pretty sure it won't look remotely the same by the time the tournaments are over in two weeks. I actually also do have faith that this is a Cornell team that can win its next four games, and we have the potential to claw our way into the 2-band that way. But it will almost certainly mean sweeping Clarkson and having a few other quarterfinal series around the country go 2-1.

[Scersk '97]

"You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!"

Well then, Hooking—by my own decree—will be "doomed to wander through the world" so that he might view the full panoply of college hockey games, an interconnected web of delight affecting the tournament prospects of every team far and near, and "witness" the happiness of fans in which he "cannot share."

[Trotsky]

"You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!"

Well then, Hooking—by my own decree—will be "doomed to wander through the world" so that he might view the full panoply of college hockey games, an interconnected web of delight affecting the tournament prospects of every team far and near, and "witness" the happiness of fans in which he "cannot share."

These are the pains he forged in life.

[BearLover]

Down to 11 after tonight's games.  Hrmpf.

FWIW, I don't think it matters whether we're 9th or 11th, as long as NoDak stays in the 3-band with us.  That means we can't go to Fargo, and have a much better chance of staying east.

I'm more concerned with making the tournament.

[Tcl123]

Down to 11 after tonight's games.  Hrmpf.

FWIW, I don't think it matters whether we're 9th or 11th, as long as NoDak stays in the 3-band with us.  That means we can't go to Fargo, and have a much better chance of staying east.

I'm more concerned with making the tournament.

+1 my thoughts exactly

[upprdeck]

sweep next weekend and it takes care of itself.