jimdahl

Ok, I think it's working. Took me until this morning because this is the first time in recent memory that they matched up Midwest/East, so I didn't have a bracket lying around with that particular configuration. Let me know if you run into glitches, otherwise I'll post the link on the home page later today.

Enter your 2015 bracket! Who can forget this near-perfect traitorous bracket last year by SiouxSports's own johndahl? Who will join the illustrious list below? 2014 johndahl 2013 FSSD/Brainerd Sioux 2012 mj3und 2011 tho0505 2009 Big A HG 2008 willtippen 2007 seanpc03 2006 teamsioux 2005 mynameiscuomo 2004 paul62/BigGreyAnt41/brew003/UP2SKI Enter your 2015 bracket!

Washington gets its first ever win at Xcel (2nd is GWG) Even Ovi hates gotta admit, those were pretty goals.

Disclaimer: I have absolutely nothing to do with this project. This is probably it guys, last chance for commemorative SiouxSports.com merchandise before we become UNDGreenPajamasFans.com. I bought one with "jimdahl" on the back. They're great for road trips--who doesn't want to look like this guy?

Last night's game goes the other way and it would have been a 3 point gap between Caps and NYR. That's part of why so many people were viewing these three games as important -- in addition to being a good test of playoff style hockey, they were big in the standings for both teams.

Yeah, that was a maddening 3rd. Can't wait to see the next two, those are the games Washington has to learn how to win in the playoffs.

Let's keep it about the topic and not each other (going both ways, this is just the post I happened to quote). Thanks.

Yeah, I used to have a web page that made it really easy to see the potential impacts of future games. The new system made that a lot harder. I think I've finally figured out how to do it and present it, but it's a lot of work to get it developed. Hopefully for next season.

All other things equal (adding just those two games to the existing results), a split keeps Minnesota at 14. Getting swept has them plummet to 19. When you add in the other games, things look a little worse for Minnesota. Depending how other teams do, they seem most likely to fall between #14 and #17 if they split, with #15-16 most likely.

Simplified-- you get more credit for winning on the road than at home, but get dinged more for losing at home than on the road. You also get a bonus for beating other top teams. This is all meant to incentivize good teams to play other good teams and to play more road games.

The quality win bonus (QWB) is dependent on RPI rank, so in that way you need to make two passes (one to calculate RPI rank, then one to apply bonuses). So, as your opponents move up and down in rank, the bonus you get for having beat them also goes up and down. The on the road vs home adjustment is different. In the base RPI, road wins and home losses are amplified while road losses and home wins are reduced (by multiplying the game RPI effects by 1.2 and .8, respectively). Final wrinkle -- the QWB is also weighted the same as the games based on home vs. away.

Neither Niagara or Holy Cross affect us much.

Sorry guys, there was about a 20 minutes follow-up to this today. I knew it was coming but forgot to warn you all. That should be it, though.

I think some of the discussion here has pushed the boundaries of a couple of the forum rules: I'd appreciate people keeping it family friendly. Thanks.

As mentioned earlier in this thread, some OS's apparently expand the text of links into hyperlinks when they're pasted (e.g. some versions of IE). Not much we can do about that other than hope that newer versions of the forum software recognize the browser and fix up the pasted link accordingly. I'm definitely not going to try to change anything before the Frozen Four, but maybe this summer.

I'm on Safari on OS X and can leave it, but haven't tried an iPad/iPhone. Will look into it.

So this is a great thread idea. Who's next, Sic? I'm feeling some Liberace...

Me too, but I don't have to remove the s.

0-2 on the specific Queen song. I nailed the GNR and the fact that there was Queen No changing my pick, but my first thought on Queen was actually Show Must Go On, but I decided to go more mainstream Should always go with the gut.

So close, I was just going for Greatest Hits I. If we're talking hand-picked, I'll bet a little bit of this:

And if there's Wham, there better be Queen

I'm feeling a little GNR coming off Mafiaman.... (https:// links continue to work for me)

So that was an https:// link and it worked for me.

Very interesting, thanks for putting that together.

In all seriousness, development on this version of this forum software has stopped as the vendor focuses on rolling out a new version. The bad pattern match on http but not https is a great example (which I might be able to fix myself, and will give it a shot). I'll decide this summer whether to move to their new version or change course.