jimdahl

Please keep the discussion on topic and not about other posters. Thanks.

Stop trolling.

Well, let's not do THIS.... Is This The Worst Logo Update Of 2013?

Same answer as before... I still don't have a great source for automated football scores, let alone basketball. It's on the list, but not at the top. Alas, my list blew up this year with both a major conference rearrangement (including a new points system!) and new RPI and PWR formulas.

In response to this question: I got the PWR details working because they're largely the same as in the past (TUC is gone, but otherwise the same). However, the RPI details are very different -- games have different weights dependent on both the location AND outcome and there are bonuses for quality wins. I'll try to get a useful new "RPI details" screen designed in coming days/weeks, but it will probably be a work in progress this season until we all get a good handle on what really matters.

Great question, let me address it over here.

I've got my first attempt at the new RPI and PWR up now. There is modest ambiguity in the NCAA's description, and none of the big guys with connections (e.g. USCHO or CHN) have an online implementation yet, so it's possible one of my implementation detail guesses was wrong. I know what my assumptions were, so they'll be easy enough to fix once the details become clear.

I was struggling to keep up with the overlapping Washington vs. Minnesota double-header. Both required watching right to the end, but I was happy to see the Vikes win. I can't really get behind cheering for my team to lose so they get a better pick.

That was a crazy game -- my wife was out and texted me that I had to tune in because some crazy Philly guy was pounding on Holtby.

See note above... personal information about non-public figures (e.g. call jimdahl's boss at xxx and tell him what a horrible moderator he is) should be avoided. I don't think anyone in this thread is likely harassing the guy in real life, but posting his personal information could enable someone else to. Thanks!

Well, I have no real explanation, but things seem better now. Usually, there's an obvious cause (system got low on memory due to being very busy, etc...), but in this case it looked completely happy but was just responding to requests slowly. I'm not sure if any of my poking at it helped, or if it just got happy again on its own. I'll continue to keep an eye on it. Sorry for any inconvenience.

FYI -- I'm looking into the slowness of the site the last hour or so.

1. The NCHC's 3 point system requires me to recode the standings tables using data I wasn't even collecting before (SO wins)... as if I wasn't busy enough already because... 2. somewhat silly changes to the PWR that require data I wasn't even collecting before (bonuses for home/away wins) and annoying to implement RPI bonuses (QWB) that are just going to be reversed anyway within a couple years the first time someone gets screwed by it. Sigh. Things I don't mind-- hate on the Caps. I'm not used to being a fan of a team successful enough to be hated. Meanwhile, back to the Vikings.

Yeah, I don't love the archiving either. Maybe I'll crank it back to 5 years or something. You can always start a new thread and link to the old one.

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Sorry about that, though it was marked as non-conference in the database it wasn't quite marked in the right way... Fixed.

My guess is that numerous people (CHN, Whelan?) are working feverishly at that right now. However, I'd also guess (based on past tweaks to the formulas) that they were tuned to make the past years look reasonable, and will only blow up when unique things happen in future years.

This does seem aimed to do that. Not only is there a huge premium for a win on the road (so when you go on the road you want to make sure it's going to be a win), but strength of schedule seems noticeably less important in the new scheme. So, the top schools should be trying to fill their schedules with easy road wins. The incentives to do so seem large enough that I wouldn't surprised to see these changes start affecting scheduling, unlike past changes. Assuming, of course, that the changes don't get reverted in the next couple years once people see how big an effect the home/road bonus actually has.

Home-Road Balance Will be Factored Into Selections Not much to do but quote myself here...

Awesome exposure for NDSU and I-AA and North Dakota! A lot of the comments here clearly reflect the envy a lot of us feel--I certainly wish it was UND/Grand Forks. (That said... you do have to wonder... what are the odds one of them accidentally refers to NDSU as UND or The Sioux?) Regardless, congrats NDSU. Huge publicity win.

Toward the end of today's game my 5 year-old declared that she's going to start cheering for the opposite teams as me because my teams always lose and it's no fun to cheer for them. We were in the car when the Vikings fumbled the kickoff (she had been asking repeatedly, "is it over, did Chicago win yet?") and she was cheering "Go Chicago! Chicago Wins!". I told her that cheering for the opposite teams as me was probably a pretty good strategy. Sigh.

I got a complaint about SiouxSports' link to the article having the wrong team -- all I could say is that we take the headline they post

Yeah, I saw that Post article today. While a big absolute drop for UND, UND's starting rank is low enough that it's in a different situation than a lot of the schools on that list (e.g. Howard and Colorado School of Mines). Frankly, it could easily be the methodology changes or even statistical noise. The longer term trends in the contributors (graduation rates, test scores, or other things that you think matter) are the things to watch. Changes in years without methodology changes will also be truer windows into those.

I don't even really mind contrarians. But we do demand common decency. Here are the last 4 posts.

No comment, but if you'd like to view someone's most recent posts you can go to their member page: http://forum.siouxsports.com/user/8297-watchmaker49/ Click "find content" (near the right), and then switch to "posts only" (near the left).