This Weekend's Games Rescheduled

Beeeej · February 09, 2017, 01:05:11 PM

https://twitter.com/CornellSports/status/829742370841358338

CU2007 · February 09, 2017, 01:16:21 PM

Quote from: Beeeejhttps://twitter.com/CornellSports/status/829742370841358338

UGH. Guess we'll view it as silver lining to get an extra day's rest during a busy stretch of games.

upprdeck · February 09, 2017, 01:43:52 PM

that storm down by the city is far worse then they thought even yesterday. yale/brown under blizzard warnings now.

Al DeFlorio · February 09, 2017, 02:41:16 PM

Quote from: upprdeckthat storm down by the city is far worse then they thought even yesterday. yale/brown under blizzard warnings now.

Blizzard it is here south of Boston. More than a foot in central Massachusetts already.

upprdeck · February 09, 2017, 03:10:55 PM

Why wouldnt you leave the Sat game as is and just move the Friday games? seems like less work for people

Jeff Hopkins '82 · February 09, 2017, 04:17:09 PM

Well, that sucks. I was looking forward to coming up.

Fortunately they switched my tickets to Senior Weekend (RPI/Union).

Jim Hyla · February 09, 2017, 04:33:25 PM

Quote from: upprdeckWhy wouldnt you leave the Sat game as is and just move the Friday games? seems like less work for people

The league tries to alternate which team first plays the home team. So if we play Brown first away, then we play Yale first at home. Next year it switches. Presumably it's done to even everything out.

For example if Yale was great this year and Brown their usual +/-, then it would not be fair to have Colgate play them first each time and we get them after they have been "beaten up" by 'gate each time. This year it's not that important, but could be.

upprdeck · February 09, 2017, 06:51:20 PM

but had they had a issue on friday they would have no problem moving it to sat. seems like a minor concern in the bigger picture compared to people who might have been traveling for the game and now have to change hotels,

but who knows maybe cornell or some school requested that it not change

TimV · February 09, 2017, 09:13:11 PM

One good thing about the change- if you have ILDN you can see Union @ Harvard Friday night. A big game for all three teams. Might be a trap game for Harvard looking forward to Beanpot final. ::banana::

andyw2100 · February 09, 2017, 09:26:57 PM

Quote from: TimVOne good thing about the change- if you have ILDN you can see Union @ Harvard Friday night. A big game for all three teams. Might be a trap game for Harvard looking forward to Beanpot final. ::banana::

Well, not if you're a cheap ILDN subscriber like me, and only pay for Cornell games.

Also even if I could watch that game, and assuming I'd be willing to root for Harvard if Harvard winning helped Cornell, I wouldn't know who to root for. We might have a better chance of passing Union than of passing Harvard since we still have a game left against Union, and we lose the first tie-breaker with Harvard.

upprdeck · February 10, 2017, 08:32:06 AM

I take the perspective that there is no outcome of that game that doesnt help us in some way. its really unclear which one helps us the most. my head says a harvard win does, since we still play union again, but my heart has a hard time with that thought.

CU2007 · February 10, 2017, 08:49:00 AM

Quote from: upprdeckI take the perspective that there is no outcome of that game that doesnt help us in some way. its really unclear which one helps us the most. my head says a harvard win does, since we still play union again, but my heart has a hard time with that thought.

Also depends on what you view as the ideal outcome. I would imagine there's an outcome that makes us more likely to finish third, but that it might be different from what would make it more likely we get all the way to first (which I think would be a tie? maybe?)

upprdeck · February 10, 2017, 09:30:13 AM

I think tie is the best outcome to root for to.

jkahn · February 10, 2017, 10:31:04 AM

Quote from: upprdeckI take the perspective that there is no outcome of that game that doesnt help us in some way. its really unclear which one helps us the most. my head says a harvard win does, since we still play union again, but my heart has a hard time with that thought.

A Union win can help our quality win points, since the higher they finish the more quality win points we get. And we also have a second shot at getting more.

Beeeej · February 10, 2017, 10:43:24 AM

Quote from: jkahn
Quote from: upprdeckI take the perspective that there is no outcome of that game that doesnt help us in some way. its really unclear which one helps us the most. my head says a harvard win does, since we still play union again, but my heart has a hard time with that thought.
A Union win can help our quality win points, since the higher they finish the more quality win points we get. And we also have a second shot at getting more.

I thought quality win bonus was based solely on their Pairwise position at the time of the game, not where they end up.