Cornell soccer 2024

[chimpfood]

We're 11th in RPI, With 25 at-large selections, if we finish reasonably well we should be in solid position for an at-large bid if we don't win the ILT.

Its still really tough with a weak Ivy League but I'm starting to become hopeful, just keep going one game at a time.

Ivy's overall RPI is 9th out of 22 conferences, so perhaps "weak" is an overstatement.

The conference RPI is still below 0.500. Soccer is very top heavy and it's hard to get an at large bid if your conference isn't very close to the top. Last time Cornell made the tourney in 2022 the Ivy League had the fourth best RPI.

[scoop85]

We're 11th in RPI, With 25 at-large selections, if we finish reasonably well we should be in solid position for an at-large bid if we don't win the ILT.

Its still really tough with a weak Ivy League but I'm starting to become hopeful, just keep going one game at a time.

Ivy's overall RPI is 9th out of 22 conferences, so perhaps "weak" is an overstatement.

The conference RPI is still below 0.500. Soccer is very top heavy and it's hard to get an at large bid if your conference isn't very close to the top. Last time Cornell made the tourney in 2022 the Ivy League had the fourth best RPI.

Sure, but with a team RPI of 11, even if we were to lose to Penn, if we beat the rest of the Ivies on the schedule our RPI should hold up just fine.

[ugarte]

We're 11th in RPI, With 25 at-large selections, if we finish reasonably well we should be in solid position for an at-large bid if we don't win the ILT.

Its still really tough with a weak Ivy League but I'm starting to become hopeful, just keep going one game at a time.

Ivy's overall RPI is 9th out of 22 conferences, so perhaps "weak" is an overstatement.

The conference RPI is still below 0.500. Soccer is very top heavy and it's hard to get an at large bid if your conference isn't very close to the top. Last time Cornell made the tourney in 2022 the Ivy League had the fourth best RPI.

Sure, but with a team RPI of 11, even if we were to lose to Penn, if we beat the rest of the Ivies on the schedule our RPI should hold up just fine.

Ivy has had multiple bids in recent years iirc.

[chimpfood]

Looks like a 3-4-3 today. Interesting choice, I think they usually play a 4-4-2.

[Al DeFlorio]

Looks like a 3-4-3 today. Interesting choice, I think they usually play a 4-4-2.

Colgate in a 1-5-4.

[chimpfood]

Pretty calm 4-1 win. I hadn't really realized but we've now been without kisa kiingi since the Syracuse game and we've still been hot. If we can get him back soon we're going to be really dangerous.

[dbilmes]

We totally controlled play against Colgate but we let them tie the game at 1-1 early in the second half on some poor defensive play before getting back on track. Colgate came out really packing the defensive zone, but we eventually wore them down.
The Colgate announcers were terrible. In the first half, whenever Cornell had the ball there was virtually no play-by-play with individual players being named. Half the time I couldn't tell which of our players had the ball. They also were surprised to see Colgate's backup goaltender get the start, but never were able to provide any insight into why their regular goalie wasn't playing.
They did discuss RPI at one point, nothing that Colgate's was 128 and ours was 11. Only Bucknell has a higher RPI in their league.

[scoop85]

Pretty calm 4-1 win. I hadn't really realized but we've now been without kisa kiingi since the Syracuse game and we've still been hot. If we can get him back soon we're going to be really dangerous.

Shots were 25-2

[Weder]

Athletics has to me using some sort of AI to write these recaps, right? https://cornellbigred.com/news/2024/10/15/mens-soccer-game-recap-vs-colgate.aspx

The language is similar across recaps for a lot of sports this fall, and there seems to be some sort of rule in the logic that they can't use "said" when quoting someone.

[dbilmes]

The official box score for the game has Cornell scoring it's second and third goals at the exact same time. That's a good trick!

[chimpfood]

In other games today everybody that we have played and everybody in the Ivy League lost so we ended up moving down in the rpi despite a dominant road win. Even Penn lost to Monmouth, hopefully the start of a losing streak as we have a huge game against them on Sunday.

[CU2007]

Athletics has to me using some sort of AI to write these recaps, right? https://cornellbigred.com/news/2024/10/15/mens-soccer-game-recap-vs-colgate.aspx

The language is similar across recaps for a lot of sports this fall, and there seems to be some sort of rule in the logic that they can't use "said" when quoting someone.

Seems like it. Whole article has no flow to it and feels very mechanical in a way.

[ugarte]

The official box score for the game has Cornell scoring it's second and third goals at the exact same time. That's a good trick!

they fixed that and a possible explanation is there was a mistake in data entry: Colgate got a yellow after the second Cornell goal - and that was before the Raiders got really chippy at the end.

[chimpfood]

Massive game tomorrow. NCAA at large bid and hosting the Ivy League tournament on the line. I talk be a beautiful day and the game will be on national tv on ESPNU.

[chimpfood]

Concede right before half on penn's only real chance of the game, sucks.