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North Dakota seemingly a lock for NCAAs Here's a little more detail: UND wins 0 #5 2% #6 7% #7 22% #8 23% #9 25% #10 16% #11 4% #12 <1% UND wins 1 #5 7% #6 23% #7 32% #8 23% #9 10% #10 4% #11 1% #12 <1% UND wins 2 #4 6% #5 19% #6 29% #7 26% #8 13% #9 5% #10 1% #11 <1% UND wins 3 #3 19% #4 46% #5 33% #6 2%

At the risk of repeating myself, no partisan politics. Seriously.

Leave the partisan politics out of this please.

It looks if UND loses tonight we leave the weekend #11 or #12. If UND wins, #6-#9. So, a loss is somewhat unlikely to knock UND out of playoff contention, though big moves can happen when you're not playing, see Alaska this weekend (as predicted in the blog).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8iDSxaBZWI&feature=youtu.be

While undoubtedly not a coicidence that it happened during a busy time, the slowdow of the last half hour or so seems to be related to a crashed web server module. Rebooted the whole thing, things seem better now, I'll keep an eye on it.

And this is it... TeamCurrent PointsConference Series RemainingPossible Final RankingsSCSU 35 1 1st-T3rd Has secured home ice in WCHA playoffs Can clinch 3rd with 1 point this weekend Can clinch T-1st with 2 points this weekend Can clinch 1st with 3 points this weekend Can no longer finish 1st with fewer than 1 point this weekend UND 33 1 1st-T6th Can clinch T-4th with 1 point this weekend Can clinch 3rd with 2 points this weekend Can clinch T-2nd with 4 points this weekend Can no longer finish 1st with fewer than 3 points this weekend Can no longer finish T-1st with fewer than 2 points this weekend Can no longer finish T-2nd with fewer than 1 point this weekend UMN 33 1 1st-T6th Can clinch T-4th with 1 point this weekend Can clinch 3rd with 2 points this weekend Can clinch T-2nd with 4 points this weekend Can no longer finish 1st with fewer than 3 points this weekend Can no longer finish T-1st with fewer than 2 points this weekend Can no longer finish T-2nd with fewer than 1 point this weekend UW 31 1 T1st-7th Can clinch T-6th with 2 points this weekend Can clinch T-4th with 3 points this weekend Can clinch T-3rd with 4 points this weekend Can no longer finish T-1st with fewer than 4 points this weekend Can no longer finish T-2nd with fewer than 3 points this weekend Can no longer finish T-3rd with fewer than 2 points this weekend Can no longer finish 4th with fewer than 1 point this weekend Mankato 31 1 T1st-7th Can clinch T-6th with 2 points this weekend Can clinch T-4th with 3 points this weekend Can clinch 3rd with 4 points this weekend Can no longer finish T-1st with fewer than 4 points this weekend Can no longer finish T-2nd with fewer than 3 points this weekend Can no longer finish T-3rd with fewer than 2 points this weekend Can no longer finish 4th with fewer than 1 point this weekend Nebraska-Omaha 30 1 T2nd-7th Can clinch T-6th with 3 points this weekend Can clinch 5th with 4 points this weekend Can no longer finish T-2nd with fewer than 4 points this weekend Can no longer finish T-3rd with fewer than 3 points this weekend Can no longer finish 4th with fewer than 2 points this weekend Can no longer finish T-4th with fewer than 1 point this weekend Denver 29 1 T3rd-7th Can no longer finish T-3rd with fewer than 4 points this weekend Can no longer finish 4th with fewer than 3 points this weekend Can no longer finish T-4th with fewer than 2 points this weekend Can no longer finish T-6th with fewer than 1 point this weekend CC 24 1 8th-9th Can no longer earn home ice in WCHA playoffs Can clinch T-8th with 1 point this weekend Can clinch 8th with 2 points this weekend UMD 21 1 8th-T10th Can no longer earn home ice in WCHA playoffs Can clinch T-9th with 1 point this weekend Can clinch 9th with 2 points this weekend Can no longer finish 8th with fewer than 4 points this weekend Can no longer finish T-8th with fewer than 3 points this weekend MTech 18 1 9th-11th Can no longer earn home ice in WCHA playoffs Can clinch T-10th with 3 points this weekend Can clinch 10th with 4 points this weekend Can no longer finish 9th with fewer than 4 points this weekend Can no longer finish T-9th with fewer than 3 points this weekend Bemidji State 17 1 T9th-11th Can no longer earn home ice in WCHA playoffs Can no longer finish T-9th with fewer than 4 points this weekend Can no longer finish 10th with fewer than 2 points this weekend Can no longer finish T-10th with fewer than 1 point this weekend AA 10 1 12th-12th Can no longer earn home ice in WCHA playoffs

UND Student Senate passes vote of no confidence of Shirvani

There was an excellent question on this week's post UND need win to maintain lofty ranking: Here's my (pretty technical) shot at an answer. (You almost certainly need UND PWR comparisons to follow along)

Now I remember why I stopped doing this. Even with only two series remaining, it's so wide open as to almost be uninteresting. Seven teams can still finish 1st, but every one of them could also miss getting home ice. Sheesh. TeamCurrent PointsConference Series RemainingPossible Final RankingsSCSU 33 2 1st-7th Can clinch T-6th with 1 point this weekend Can clinch 4th with 2 points this weekend UMN 31 2 1st-7th Can clinch T-6th with 2 points this weekend Can clinch T-5th with 3 points this weekend Can clinch 4th with 4 points this weekend UND 30 2 1st-T7th Can clinch 7th with 1 point this weekend Can clinch T-6th with 4 points this weekend Nebraska-Omaha 30 2 1st-T7th Can clinch 7th with 1 point this weekend Can clinch 6th with 3 points this weekend Can no longer finish 1st with fewer than 1 point this weekend Mankato 29 2 1st-8th Can clinch 7th with 1 point this weekend Can no longer finish 1st with fewer than 1 point this weekend UW 27 2 1st-8th Can clinch T-7th with 3 points this weekend Can clinch 7th with 4 points this weekend Can no longer finish 1st with fewer than 3 points this weekend Can no longer finish T-1st with fewer than 2 points this weekend Can no longer finish T-3rd with fewer than 1 point this weekend Denver 27 2 1st-8th Can clinch T-7th with 3 points this weekend Can clinch 7th with 4 points this weekend Can no longer finish 1st with fewer than 3 points this weekend Can no longer finish T-1st with fewer than 2 points this weekend Can no longer finish T-3rd with fewer than 1 point this weekend CC 22 2 5th-11th Can clinch T-9th with 2 points this weekend Can clinch T-8th with 3 points this weekend Can clinch 8th with 4 points this weekend Can no longer finish 5th with fewer than 4 points this weekend Can no longer finish 6th with fewer than 2 points this weekend Can no longer finish T-6th with fewer than 1 point this weekend UMD 21 1 8th-11th Can no longer earn home ice in WCHA playoffs Bemidji State 16 2 8th-11th Can no longer earn home ice in WCHA playoffs Can no longer finish 8th with fewer than 3 points this weekend Can no longer finish T-8th with fewer than 2 points this weekend Can no longer finish T-9th with fewer than 1 point this weekend MTech 16 2 8th-11th Can no longer earn home ice in WCHA playoffs Can no longer finish 8th with fewer than 3 points this weekend Can no longer finish T-8th with fewer than 2 points this weekend Can no longer finish T-9th with fewer than 1 point this weekend AA 10 1 12th-12th Can no longer earn home ice in WCHA playoffs

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Yeah, you're really right. We were finding it tough not to allow discussion of a very local topic that's very big national news, but it's clear that such a discussion can't take place without including not only politics but apparently also religion. So, it doesn't belong here.

A fine question. My guess is that it has a poor sense of "this weekend" and is just referring to the next conference series. Let me double check that. Edit -- yep, my guess was right. Back in the day, teams played full schedules this time of year so everyone had conference games every weekend. So, it really means that's what they can do in their next 2 games. I'll see if I can make that a little smarter. Thanks.

No discussion of the personal lives of non-public figures, please. Thanks.

Every time I look at that program it's quite a trip down memory lane. It was the year after the What if calculator, which had created a frenzy of people trying to figure out the possible outcomes. The problem with really doing so is that calculating all the possible outcomes across even just 14 series is still 268,435,456 possible outcomes (22,876,792,454,961 if you count ties, which we need to). So, you can't do it exhaustively that way, you instead need to come up with fancy tricks to eliminate combinations that don't matter. I remember optimizing that program for weeks trying to get it to run in a reasonable amount of time (e.g. an hour) back in 2003. The punch line -- on today's computers it runs in about 2 seconds.

I dusted off an old tool that cranked through the remaining WCHA possible outcomes. I always find it somewhat interesting this time of year, so enjoy... TeamCurrentPoints ConferenceSeries Remaining PossibleFinal Rankings SCSU 31 3 1st-8th Can clinch T-7th with 1 point this weekend Can clinch 7th with 2 points this weekend Can clinch T-6th with 3 points this weekend Can clinch 5th with 4 points this weekend Nebraska-Omaha 30 2 1st-8th Mankato 29 2 1st-8th UND 28 3 1st-T8th Can clinch 8th with 1 point this weekend Can clinch T-7th with 4 points this weekend UMN 28 3 1st-T8th Can clinch 8th with 1 point this weekend Can clinch 7th with 4 points this weekend UW 27 2 1st-9th Denver 25 3 1st-9th Can clinch T-8th with 3 points this weekend Can clinch 8th with 4 points this weekend Can no longer finish 1st with fewer than 1 point this weekend CC 20 3 T1st-11th Can clinch T-9th with 4 points this weekend Can no longer finish T-1st with fewer than 4 points this weekend Can no longer finish T-2nd with fewer than 3 points this weekend Can no longer finish T-4th with fewer than 2 points this weekend Can no longer finish 5th with fewer than 1 point this weekend UMD 20 2 T5th-11th Can clinch T-9th with 4 points this weekend Can no longer finish T-5th with fewer than 4 points this weekend Can no longer finish T-6th with fewer than 3 points this weekend Can no longer finish 7th with fewer than 2 points this weekend Can no longer finish T-7th with fewer than 1 point this weekend Bemidji State 16 2 8th-11th Can no longer earn home ice in WCHA playoffs MTech 16 2 8th-11th Can no longer earn home ice in WCHA playoffs AA 10 1 12th-12th Can no longer earn home ice in WCHA playoffs

UND closes in on NCAA tournament berth The biggest story of the week that Quinnipiac's position has only become stronger.

Good point, at least on my phone Chrome seems to keep the address bar there no matter where on the page you are. Of course, refreshing jumps you back to the top of the page, so you're still left scrolling the length of the page once.

There's an Invision Forum app for iOS, but not Android. However, it also doesn't solve your problem, refresh is still at the top.

I'm not sure how that helps? From what I understand, the concern is that he's sitting at the bottom of a thread and wants to reload it without having to scroll all the way to the top to hit his browsers' refresh button.

Cool, your ambition and efforts are certainly admirable and appreciated. As I said before, I'm in!

Oops! Sorry about that, my mistake. $10k is conceivable but ambitious. It would clearly require going beyond this community, as at $20 a pop you'd need 500 donors. Add in some $100 whales and you're still looking at 20 $100 donors and 400 $20 donors, etc... It either needs some pretty big numbers of people or some pretty big donations. My point in doing that math, though, was going to be to contrast it with some of the larger ticket ideas being floated. If that's what it takes to raise $10k, raising a significantly larger number simply requires some pretty dig donations; sheer volume of small donations is unlikely to work. For $10k, though, the "small" donations are clearly quite helpful, but if there were also a way to juice some "big" ones that would go far.

As I tried to say a page or so back, the big missing fact here is the target. I would think step #1 in fundraising is establishing a target. I have no idea what uniforms cost, but 85 of them can't be cheap. An IPF, though, is in such a different class that it's probably simply unachievable by "small" donations. I'm not trying to throw cold water on the idea, rather I'm quite happy to support any of these causes, but there does have to be a common understanding of the goal (which, in this case, is a dollar number).

I will match all contributions.