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The research activity of the University of North Dakota created 1219 jobs in Grand Forks County, says this press release.

I've done a lot of looking into this in trying to set up the text message notification that was available in years past. The bottom line was: no source (other than informal, e.g. team sites or message boards) was consistently up-to-date, and all contained mid-game inaccuracies. That said, I found two big data sources. The CSTV/CBS/USCHO one available in the NCAA link above, and whatever wire service Yahoo/Rivals scoreboard uses (each of those two is similarly used by a few other sites such that they always have identical data). CHN didn't seem to track either precisely, which made me guess that they supplement it with calls to the press boxes or other site-specific data entry. Updates seemed to lag from as good as 1-2 minutes up to an hour or more. As you observed, updates usually occur only when goals are scored or periods end; it seems to actually vary arena. Final scores tended to be more reliably available in a timely fashion than mid-game scores. All had sufficient in-game inaccuracies that I eventually found them unsuitable for text message notification, but only CHN regularly contained incorrect final scores (as of last year, I haven't tracked CHN as regularly this year). Good luck, and if you do any better than that, be sure to let us know!

I agree

Record dollars for UND athletics

Deck out your dorm room (or office) in style with the North Dakota Fighting Sioux Tiffany Table Lamp. It's 12" wide at the shade and 20" tall.

Sorry, yes. #4 in PWR, so a 1 seed.

Sorry -- just grabbed last year's outcome. Consider that a worst case if you'd like. For the record, last year's two losses were the worst in Hakstol's career, but UND also hasn't swept through the tourney since before SiouxSports has been keeping records (1998). Fun question, and definitely possible. I tried to permute enough matchups to give a good overall guide. All assume a sweep of the reg. season: Two wins against MTech, a win over UMD, and a win over Denver: ~70% chance of being #4 or higher Two wins against MTech, a win over UW, and a win over Denver: ~80% chance of being #4 or higher Two wins against MTech, a win over UMD, and a loss to Denver: ~20% chance of being #4 or higher Two wins/one loss against MTech, a win over UMD, and a win over Denver: ~50% chance of being #4 or higher Two wins against MTech, a win over UW, and a win over Minnesota: ~70% chance of being #4 or higher Two wins against MTech, a win over SCSU, and a loss to Minnesota: ~30% chance of being #4 or higher You get the idea...

Good reminder. I was pondering the likely impact of the conference tournament the other day and it occurred to me that one problem is that due to our success, the first round opponent will be weak so the games won't be worth nearly as much as the CC and UW games. Looking at UND's RPI breakdown, you can see that our win over UW gives us .6530, a win over CC is .6385, but a win over MTech is only .5848. That's slightly higher than our likely RPI of .54-.55 and there will be some COP benefit, but those games might present significantly more downside potential than upside. As you said... It's conceivable that going 2-1 in the opening round then splitting the Final Five games would leave us about where we were going in.

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You beat me to posting in this thread There's a lot more prose than usual, including some inspired by the discussions in this thread, so I'll actually link to the post instead of just including the charts... Feb. 25 PWR forecast I was waiting until today so last night's result would be included. Given the small number of games next weekend, I also did a two week run. UND's chart from that run is included in the post, but the "who to cheer for" was not noticeably superior to the one-week version and a little harder to interpret so I didn't do anything with it.

This is probably sandbagging, but I'm only giving UND 4 in the next two weekends. Super-tough to win at Kohl Center and UW will be playing for as much as we are. UND 37 Denver 37 UW 34 UMD 32 CC 31 SCSU 29 UMN 29 Mankato 22 AA 19 MTech 10 The purple cows reign of terror comes to an end, splitting with SCSU and getting swept by the Badgers. So much for tonight's PWR gain. The Gophers buy those pads that look like the net for their goalies and manage to split with the Bulldogs and pull 3 from MTech. CC collapses down the stretch, splitting with Sioux and failing to knock off DU, leaving DU tied with UND for the MacNaughton.

Let's visit another Sioux alum... Jody Garry

Thanks for the info, it seems like we'll definitely be able to tell which it way is if the situation arises. UMass, 0.5097 (#24), 14-15-3 Too many wins will push them over .500, too many losses will push them out of the top 25 RPI. It'll be difficult for them to thread the needle, but it's certainly possible. In addition to Mankato, NMU or Maine could conceivably also get into the same situation.

For the basketball fans... The UND basketball mat is FanMat item 1223 http://www.thefurnitureparadise.com/fanmat...all-mat-76.html

Philly was one of the rejected applicants in the last round, right? (When D.C., Ford Field, Mpls, and Tampa were awarded). While Pittsburgh is drivable for me, it's much less accessible to the East Coast at large than Philly would have been. I'm not sure if the added convenience to the Eastern Midwest is enough to offset that, but I would still guess it an easy sellout and an amusing place to visit. Good luck to them!

I haven't been downtown in two years myself, but the Dane is on the other side of the capitol. If I make it there on the way to a game, I usually make another stop closer to the Kohl Center. Nitty Gritty is closest and will be jammed (tables are reserved for those eating, you're allowed to eat for 30 minutes then get kicked out so someone else can eat). That said, it's a fine place to stop for a drink. Vintage is also right there, and has an amusing theme of old-school beers (though was never similarly jammed when I was in town). We've stopped at Brothers, the Pub, and other State St haunts post-game many times.

Here's what the championship handbook has to say: I could see it going either way -- don't compare to them as a TUC because they're not .500, or count them as a TUC but just don't pick them at large. However, to me the latter seems slightly more consistent with the way the NCAA usually implements such rules. In the face of such ambiguity, I usually just have the PWR calculation do what CHN & USCHO do on the possibility one of them got the scoop from the committee and because people like the consistency. If it occurs this year that there's a sub .500 in the top 25, there's a small chance we'll be able to tell based on who gets selected.

Thanks -- post fixed.

1224 FB: Regular season rushing yds by Shannon Burnell in 1993 (#5 all time record)

For those sitting around bored on a Sunday afternoon, Ovechkin & Semin taking on Crosby & Malkin on NBC right now. You can't beat the league's top 3 scorers in one game -- pretty exciting game so far.

Would be? It does each September through January

Yale defeating Princeton would have helped if Brown also had. We definitely came out on the bottom end of my forecast this week. Here are the games that I noted would swing the PWR the most and their outcomes, in order of importance: UND did their job, but didn't get much help.

With the standard caveat that I'm only running through the end of the regular season (which is a big deal now that there are only 5 reg. season games but probably 4 post-season that will contribute to PWR). If the Sioux win out, anywhere from #4-#7 is likely with #5-#6 most likely. #2 is possible (it occurred in 16 of 1,000,000 simulations). Clearly if winning out were the case, a 1 seed would be a realistic hope if that level of success were carried into the conference tournament (remember 6-8 weeks ago when people were guessing that the Sioux couldn't make the tourney at large?) Win 3 of the 5 instead, and they're looking at #9-#12. A tournament berth would still be quite likely, but bad execution in the conference tournament and a little bad luck could put them on the bubble.

http://www.und.edu/dept/our/uletter/may5.pdf

For Feb. 20, let's go to a Sioux Alum... Scott Sandelin, coach of the UMD Bulldogs, had 122 losses in his first 6 seasons as head coach (96-122-26 .447), and reach the exact same mark of 122 wins after 8 seasons. http://www.collegehockeystats.net/0607/rosters/mndm http://www.collegehockeystats.net/0809/rosters/mndm