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Hi all, so i've heard a rumor around IL, twitter that Ryder Garnsey might play in the Hop ND game???? is that even possible considering he was deemed academically ineligible I heard the same one... The one possible thing to look into is did a semester/quarter just end at UND? I will see what I can ...

runrussellrun wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2019 8:39 pm It is SO VERY CLEAR that I am not alone in thinking the n$aa process is lame.

It's also very clear that you just accused refs of being in the bag for the big name schools and launched into a personal attack when someone called you out on it.

And as for the ACC, they are guaranteed 4-5 bids a year because they are all ranked high to start the season and SOS and RPI become a self fulfilling prophecy by playing each other over and over, How do pre season rankings factor into RPI/selections? The ACC did win a few non-conference games (or s...

Dunker wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2019 11:34 am Hawkeye, Thanks for your great work all year. It's appreciated by thousands.

Thousands may be a little optimistic... but even if it's hundreds or tens, I'm glad that someone found it useful!

besides HP, the other team that jumps out in the SOR is the high ranking of tOSU, who couldn't even qualify for thier own league tourney. (5th man out based on tie breakers.) Ohio State actually finished last in the Big Ten this season. The 2-3 tiebreaker didn't play out. 1. PSU 5-0 2. JHU 3-2 (hea...

you take a generic “good” team (I use the #10 Lax-ELO team), and you estimate how many wins they would end up with against that schedule. And how do you do this estimate? Lax-ELO? Seems to me the whole idea is entirely dependent on the underlying rating system that's used to estimate win probabilit...

UMBC @ Marist is Wednesday at 7:00pm on ESPN3.

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We're over 20 entries now. This should be fun!

Cooter wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2019 9:21 pm Hopkins was 3-7 or .300 pct.; even further their wins were towards the weaker end of that 10.

Poor Maryland! It looked like such a good win the first time.

You assign each team a rating. If team A with rating RA plays team B with rating RB, the probability that A wins is set to RA/(RA+RB). Now choose the ratings to maximize the total probability that all games played came out as they actually did. I have taken a statistics class (I even remember some ...

To say a system that treats teams that are 9 positions apart as equals and teams that are 1 position apart as unequal is as arbitrary as a continuous scale is hilarious.

a fan wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2019 4:52 pm So then extend the QW math to include wins over 20-30 and 40-50. Problem solved.

Those are still arbitrary cutoffs.

1 =/= 5
6 =/= 10
11 =/= 20
*21 =/= 30
etc

So this solution remains imperfect.

GSP wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2019 3:02 pm Hopkins getting in at 8-7 is a joke!

Total joke.

I love a good joke! I’ve been laughing all day.

Going by Massey ratings (which IMO are the most reliable of the available ranking systems; Massey rates literally hundreds of sports at all levels, and has been fine-tuning his methodology for decades), the brackets are pretty imbalanced. For each bracket, the first line below is the Massey rating ...

Peter Brown wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2019 8:23 am My Final Four:

Penn State versus Penn

UVA versus Notre Dame


Final:

Penn State versus UVA


Winner:

UVA

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Cornell Could you give some insight on why your model thinks Cornell's at-large chances are so low? It's the one thing that your model seems to have very different than most. Great question. It's 2 parts really. First of all, they play Yale, and the Lax-ELO ratings suggest that Yale wins that game ...

stupefied wrote: ↑Sun May 05, 2019 10:33 pm The 16-13 matchup

I'm not sure what the context of this is...

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reLAX wrote: ↑Sun May 05, 2019 10:15 pm no one but Hop Wouod have gotten in w 8-7 record....

So if Notre Dame added a loss at the end of their schedule to Penn State, they wouldn't have gotten in?