2005-2006 PWR - playoffs edition!

[Dpperk29]

no... this cannot be like last night... no more overtime...

[me]

2-1 SLU 11 min left

[nyc94]

[quote me]2-1 SLU 11 min left[/quote]

This game is being updated in three threads.

[me]

2-2 8:40 left or played in the third. Sounds like it was a divinesque goal.

[jy3]

updated with the slu(t) result.

[Scersk '97]

Just to point out the wacky nature of the PWR, and to return to a topic that someone broached a few weeks ago, I ran JTW's DIY PWR script and changed that MSU loss to a win.  If that had happened, we would've been the #1 overall seed in the tournament at this point.

What this type of behavior says about the PWR is clear; what this small difference between supremacy and struggle says about our team is less clear.  Are we a lucky streak away from ECAC and national championships, or are we the talented also-rans?  I guess we'll find out.

[redhair34]

Adam provides another very good breakdown of the current PWR situation.
http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2006/03/07_ncaabracket.php

  [Q]10. Cornell — This is the first team in the list that is truly vulnerable to not making the tournament, though Cornell is likely in already. The Big Red didn't play, but slipped a couple of spots. It could've been worse, had Union defeated Yale (don't ask). You know what's amazing? If Cornell had swept its season-opening series against Michigan State, instead of splitting, the Big Red would be the No. 1 overall seed in the tournament right now. What does that say about the nature of the Pairwise? Especially since that would make them only No. 10 in KRACH.[/Q]

[Trotsky]

[Q]What does that say about the nature of the Pairwise? Especially since that would make them only No. 10 in KRACH.[/Q]

It tells me that PWR > KRACH. :-D

[KeithK]

Since I'm too lazy to look myself, can someone quickly say how the MSU flip would vault us to #1?  It's obviously not RPI.  Is it just that that flips COp against a bunch of western teams?

[nyc94]

[quote KeithK]Since I'm too lazy to look myself, can someone quickly say how the MSU flip would vault us to #1?  It's obviously not RPI.  Is it just that that just flip COp against a bunch of western teams?[/quote]

RPI would be .5544.  Cornell would be tied with Minnesota with 30 comparison wins and wins the comparison with Minnesota while losing the comparison with BU.

In the case of Minnesota we are currently losing 3-0 (RPI, TUC, ComOp).  With the MSU win Cornell would take TUC and ComOp and win 2-1.  With Wisconsin we are currently losing 2-0 (ComOp is tied) and with the MSU win we would take the comparison 2-1, gaining ComOp and TUC.  Same case with Miami.  With MSU we are currently tied 2-2 and they win on RPI.  Shift a head to head game to us and we win that one 3-1.

[ebilmes]

This is our fault. If only we'd have started the PWR threads and intense discussion sooner, the team would have known exactly what to do to get that #1 seed...

Edit: originally taken down in the interest of being nonconfrontational, then put up due to KeithK's inconsiderate quoting...

[KeithK]

[quote ebilmes]This is our fault. If only we'd have started the PWR threads and intense discussion sooner, the team would have known exactly what to do to get that #1 seed...[/quote]I blame Whelan.  If only he'd had his PWR script up and running for this season back in October, the team might have known they had to sweep MSU.  We needed the ability to predict the entire season in advance.


Well, maybe John had other things to worry about in October.  OK, I blame someone else for not stepping up and doing it!  Not me, of course.  I'm blameless.

Edit: Heh, caught ebilmes before the edit. :-D

[jtwcornell91]

[quote KeithK]Well, maybe John had other things to worry about in October.[/quote]

You mean like whether my apartment had flooded and how many advanced civilizations of mold and maggots had arisen in my refrigerator? ::panic::

[DeltaOne81]

[quote jtwcornell91][quote KeithK]Well, maybe John had other things to worry about in October.[/quote]

You mean like whether my apartment had flooded and how many advanced civilizations of mold and maggots had arisen in my refrigerator? ::panic::[/quote]\\

Well its about damn time the molds and maggots started pulling their own weight around here. Is getting a PWR script up and running pre-season really *that* much to ask? ;-)

[jy3]

[quote jtwcornell91][quote KeithK]Well, maybe John had other things to worry about in October.[/quote]

You mean like whether my apartment had flooded and how many advanced civilizations of mold and maggots had arisen in my refrigerator? ::panic::[/quote]
ouch, that sux, john. they have all been exterminated I hope spores can be a bitch, ask ripley http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078748/