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Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sun May 05, 2019 10:13 pm
Have a hard schedule and go .558 and make the tournament

Don't fix what's not broken.

admin wrote: ↑Sun May 05, 2019 10:01 pm

Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sun May 05, 2019 9:54 pmHopkins getting in at 8-7 tells me the system is broken.

8-7 with the #2 SOS. This doesn't bother me.

Hopkins and Notre Dame schedules are blueprints for how all the top programs should schedule - except I would recommend to Notre Dame scheduling 13 regular season games instead of 12.

Hopkins has a very winnable quadrant (heck even the whole half) of the bracket. @Notre Dame, Duke, UVA/Towson/UMCP would be the likely path to the title game. My personal opinion is that Yale and Penn State are the best two teams, and they are both in the other half of the bracket - would meet in t...

Duke as the 2 seed is hilarious to me. I seriously audibly said WHAT?!? when it was announced.

Hopkins has a very winnable quadrant (heck even the whole half) of the bracket. @Notre Dame, Duke, UVA/Towson/UMCP would be the likely path to the title game. My personal opinion is that Yale and Penn State are the best two teams, and they are both in the other half of the bracket - would meet in th...

If Cornell doesn't get in, they will have two teams to blame, and neither of them are Hopkins: 1. Loyola, for not winning the Patriot League and taking up their at-large spot 2. Maryland, for losing twice in a week to Hopkins And themselves, of course. Every team that is even somewhat on the bubble...

It would have been polite for Admin to clearly state... It would have been polite for ICGrad to note that, according to laxbytes, JHU is also in and it is Syracuse that is out. Not my opinion, the opinion of laxbytes. You act like laf/laxbytes is the last word on the bracket. The percentage chance ...

admin wrote: ↑Sun May 05, 2019 4:38 pm Hawk, I'd really like to see the actual formulas for each of the relevant RPIs that we put stock into. At one time, an RPI was an RPI. Ws and Ls and 25%, 50%, 25%. Today, very different.

Yes, I agree, I would prefer increased transparency.

What changed for you to join those of us on the "Cornell is out" side? Based on Ws and Ls, We'd still say SU and Notre Dame, in that order. Today's games created more distance between them. Based on RPI (actually SRPI, but whatever), it's Cornell. We don't like RPI. Logic and the universe...

houndace1 wrote: ↑Sun May 05, 2019 4:22 pm The penn win moves MD's rpi to i believe top 10

Unless something has been updated that I haven't seen, Syracuse held on to 10th. Maryland finished 11th.

In conclusion, from where we're sitting, Cornell is out. Page 17, today, 12:36am: "Penn/Yale loser, Duke, Cornell , Virginia, Maryland, and Loyola are in " Page 19, today, 12:15pm: "From where we're sitting, from our logical perspective, Cornell and UMD are the safest , JHU is relati...

My final projection, as a visual bracket: https://imgur.com/a/j9exMJr *Play-in Game: UMBC (6-8) @ Marist (10-6) *Winner @ #1 Penn State (14-1) Maryland (11-4) @ #8 Notre Dame (8-6) Georgetown (13-4) @ #4 Duke (11-4) Army (13-4) @ #5 Yale (12-3) Robert Morris (9-7) @ #3 Pennsylvania (11-3) Johns Hopk...

Cooter wrote: ↑Sun May 05, 2019 1:28 pm That being said, as we all know Cornell would not be selected, because it's Hopkins.

And so the spin begins.

HopFan16 wrote: ↑Sun May 05, 2019 12:01 pm I believe it is going to come down to Maryland vs. Cornell. Been saying that all along and nothing has changed my mind. Hope I'm right.

This is it right here. I'll have my final projected bracket up as soon as these two games go final. This is the bubble.

Pretty interesting that Syracuse hasn't gotten much discussion in the bubble talk. 10th in RPI with that loss to Colgate. The committee isn't supposed to weight when a win or loss occurred. Each game is supposed to carry equal importance. That Colgate loss is a bad loss...if not the worst loss of a...

Copied from the Cornell thread:

https://www.uslaxmagazine.com/college/m ... bate-begin

I just dont see the RED getting chosen over MD, Cuse, Loyola, ND, or JHU. I sadly agree. Cornell has a tournament worthy resume to me, but so do all of the other teams that you mentioned. Eight at-large bids was one too few this year for everyone to get in. No matter who the first team out is, it w...

WOMBAT, Mod Emeritus wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2019 9:42 am Best to ignore R3. Your brain will thank you.

You said it, not me.

WOMBAT, Mod Emeritus wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2019 9:31 am Going through the season and getting six losses is no way to chart and guarantee your path into the playoffs.

Hopkins clearly should apply RRR's idea that only W-L record matters and schedule the entirety of the MAAC and NEC each year. (not serious)

At which point you shift ground to making equally unequivocal claims about Hopkins and Maryland. The point of the Maryland discussion was this: If we, as a hypothetical committee, have decided to emphasize a set of parameters where Towson (with a loss today) is evaluated ahead of Hopkins, those sam...