[sort of OT] Beanpot predictions

[Trotsky]

It would be nice if one of our resident experts told us who to root for, pairwise-wise.

[Killer]

[quote jy3]or are these games on tv?[/quote]

If you get NESN, they're on.  Don't know if anyone else carries the games.

[Scersk '97]

[quote Trotsky]It would be nice if one of our resident experts told us who to root for, pairwise-wise.[/quote]

Go use the script yourself, lazy boy, if you're concerned with the actual numbers, but losses by Harvard and Northeastern kick us out of the top 4.

[Trotsky]

[quote Scersk '97][quote Trotsky]It would be nice if one of our resident experts told us who to root for, pairwise-wise.[/quote]

Go use the script yourself, lazy boy, if you're concerned with the actual numbers, but losses by Harvard and Northeastern kick us out of the top 4.[/quote]
"The scripts" don't really help, active boy, because the season doesn't end when the Beanpot ends.  What may help us this week isn't necessarily what's good in the long run.

[RichH]

[quote Trotsky][quote Scersk '97][quote Trotsky]It would be nice if one of our resident experts told us who to root for, pairwise-wise.[/quote]

Go use the script yourself, lazy boy, if you're concerned with the actual numbers, but losses by Harvard and Northeastern kick us out of the top 4.[/quote]
"The scripts" don't really help, active boy, because the season doesn't end when the Beanpot ends.  What may help us this week isn't necessarily what's good in the long run.[/quote]

So you just asked our resident experts to predict the future, then?

[KeithK]

Simple.  Root for BU and BC to lose because they're good teams that we haven't played.  Root for Harvard and NU to win because they're not and we play them.  Root for HU doubly because they're ECAC.

But I'm sure you knew that.  No intricate analysis needed.

[Trotsky]

[quote RichH]So you just asked our resident experts to predict the future, then?[/quote]
I expect nothing less from a Cornell graduate.

[Trotsky]

[quote KeithK]Simple.  Root for BU and BC to lose because they're good teams that we haven't played.  Root for Harvard and NU to win because they're not and we play them.  Root for HU doubly because they're ECAC.

But I'm sure you knew that.  No intricate analysis needed.[/quote]
OK, cool.  In a system where a Robert Morris loss to American International can flip-flop BC and Denver, I wanted to be sure. :-D

[KeithK]

I don't swear that NU beating BC in an amazing upset couldn't set off a chain of events causing Cornell to plummet to 33rd in the PWR.  But I suspect it's damn unlikely and not worth the time to try to figure it out.  Also unlikely to be permanent, because any change that is that unusual is likely enough to flip back before all is said and done. When the weelend of 3/17-18 rolls around it makes sense to consider all sorts of arcane possibilities because the total number of combinations becomes manageable.

[RichH]

[quote Trotsky][quote RichH]So you just asked our resident experts to predict the future, then?[/quote]
I expect nothing less from a Cornell graduate.[/quote]
Excellent point.  We're moving this to Vegas and starting the most lucrative sports book ever, then.  :-D

[KeithK]

[quote RichH][quote Trotsky][quote RichH]So you just asked our resident experts to predict the future, then?[/quote]
I expect nothing less from a Cornell graduate.[/quote]
Excellent point.  We're moving this to Vegas and starting the most lucrative sports book ever, then.  :-D[/quote]Predicting the future is easy.  Getting it right, not so much.

[jbeaber1998]

And the way Northeastern is playing, they ain't helpin' us...

[Scersk '97]

[quote Trotsky]
"The scripts" don't really help, active boy, because the season doesn't end when the Beanpot ends.  What may help us this week isn't necessarily what's good in the long run.[/quote]

Well, that's the point, isn't it?  What does it matter now when the calculations are so complex that it boggles the mind?

Really, it comes down to faith/philosophy:  would you rather we effect change in our potential pairwise status or let BC/BU do it for us?  If you think we can beat Harvard in a couple of weeks, then there can be no question that we want Harvard to win, increasing our strength of schedule, etc.  (There's practically no chance for Harvard to fall out of being a TUC and very little chance of them overtaking us in common opponents, for starters.)  If you think we may have eventual trouble with the Harvard comparison, then you want BU to beat them and for them to stay weak.

If, however, you were originally being snarky in your first message, implying that the PWR, at this point of the year, is too unstable to really care about, then, hey, I'm with you.  People that are concerned about every nitty gritty of every comparison at this point in the year obviously don't really get the system.

Or, in other words, what KeithK and Rich said.

[Robb]

[quote Scersk '97]People that are concerned about every nitty gritty of every comparison at this point in the year obviously don't really get the system.
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I was going to resent that, but then I wondered what you meant by "concerned."  In my mind, I'm not concerned about it - sad as it may be, messing around with this stuff is fun for me, so it's purely for my own enjoyment...  Plus I'm living in the desert and there's certainly nothing better to do!

[Scersk '97]

[quote Robb]
I was going to resent that, but then I wondered what you meant by "concerned."  In my mind, I'm not concerned about it - sad as it may be, messing around with this stuff is fun for me, so it's purely for my own enjoyment...  Plus I'm living in the desert and there's certainly nothing better to do![/quote]

You know me better than myself.  Exactly.