jimdahl

Thanks for the scoop. The new one that hadn't yet made the schedule wiki is vs. UW-La Crosse (one that I believe no one was keeping an eye out for). Nice to see the 5-5 split so far, and home breaking down DIII (1), DII (3), FCS (1). As has been pointed out in this thread, this is probably the toughest year to get anyone to come to G.F.

I think that's the same story that was posted in Standing Rock/Spirit Lake.

That's assuming status quo for lots of other things. For example, Miami has 2 TUC wins vs. Vermont, who wasn't even a TUC until the end of this 4-game winning a streak vs. Merrimack and Mass.-Lowell. A similar losing streak vs. Maine and New Hampshire would knock them right back out of consideration, knocking two TUCs back off Miami.

With a small amount of original material, I pulled together the bios from this thread into A look at UND's AD Candidates.

Since this is the second time in a month you've made an offhand remark about how much I should appreciate "the money" I'm making off of you, I should probably respond. I think (and hope) that many of our fellow members think of this as a community to which they belong rather than a business of which they are customers. I read the interest in identifying the community that brings them together as a reflection of that. To set the record straight, I've sunk thousands of personal dollars and hours into this. Every time you view a page, that's money out of my pocket; when the site doubles in popularity, I'm happy for the service I'm able to provide the Sioux community, but it also costs me twice as much. I've seen few other such sites, even a fraction of the size, that didn't require membership fees or donations to survive. The moderators, bloggers, contributors, and photographers are also all volunteers who donate their time and efforts to help make this a better community and source of Sioux information. We've thought a central source of information and community for people interested in the Sioux worthwhile enough that we've been willing to devote considerable personal resources to providing such to Sioux fans for over a decade.

I've been suitably shamed.

Since everyone's going to such an effort, any chance of getting each week's in a new thread?

See White out in Grand Forks? thread, and the subsequent Green/White weekend

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Fargo flips over Pancake record

Woohoo, more classes outside!

The MacNaughton is still mathematically possible, if still pretty unlikely. We need CC to struggle so we can make up 4 points across 6 games: UND wins the MacNaughton scenario

If you click on "details" under any team on the rpi page, one of the things there is an estimate of the team's future RPI given a specific number of wins. It's only an estimate because future opponents' strengths can change, it only includes scheduled games (no conference tourney), and it doesn't drop "negative" wins. However, it gives a fairly handy benchmark as to how much RPI can change. For example, Michigan can drop to about .592 if they win 5 of their remaining 7, or to .579 if they win only 3 of their remaining 7. To break .59, UND would need to win at least 7 of its remaining 8. UND probably needs to win 5, maybe 6, of its remaining games for its RPI not to fall by the end of the regular season.

Congrats, and welcome Dr. Kelley! It's an exciting time at UND, and I look forward to seeing what you can do with the opportunities and challenges that await in coming years.

Glad to hear it. You saved me doing a search to find if there were any known bugs in this version of the software's PM system.

A nice reminder from Dave that there was actually a meaningful hockey game played, too.

He claims that the petition and attempt to draft Ruud has nothing to do with it. I've been been on both sides of hiring quite a few times, though have absolutely no familiarity with this industry. At least in my areas it's almost always understood that you don't respond to an offer for at least a day. Frankly, I'd be more surprised by the candidate who didn't take a day or two, especially at a chief executive level (and particularly in this case when all the details of the offer and negotiations are immediately public information).

I don't believe it changed since this: WCHA tie-breakers outline Basically: Head to head Conference wins Goals against (head to head only) WCHA goals for - goals against differential

The McNaughton, though still distant, is a much more realistic possibility than when I first punched this into a comment on Dave's midseason report Load what-if: username: mcnaughton password: cup And tweak from there.

I've always thought it important that the recipient's peak of excellence be midseason, not necessarily just be the best team midseason. Fortunately, this year we get both -- Denver was at #1 in the PWR on Dec. 31.

I'm going out to watch the game tonight, so won't be keeping an eye on the board. I made a few changes that might improve how the board responds if it becomes overwhelmed (as it briefly did last night when the tv coverage died and 1000s of people tried to jump on simultaneously). Since I won't be here watching, please post any errors encountered here so I can review any problems later.

Though the bomb of 1000s (yes, literally thousands) of simultaneous attempts to jump onto the forum last night when tv went out brought it to its knees, it gave me the info I needed to tweak a few things. In particular, the dreaded "IPS Driver" error (which usually means the web server is trying to respond to your request but can't get in touch with the database) should be gone. Though you may now see some other messages (e.g. "too busy, try again"), the forum should now never let itself get so busy that it takes minutes to recover. Though I'll do my best to track them through logs, please post here and let me know about any such errors that you see so I can continue to work to eliminate them.

You're right. I addressed this a couple weeks back in a blog post, and it has gotten only bleaker for Miami's TUC situation since then (as Bowling Green dropped out of being a TUC). At this point, if UNO gained TUC status it would give Miami 4 more TUC wins, giving them an almost guaranteed additional point in all PWR comparisons. If Bowling Green became a TUC it would give Miami a win and a loss, making it almost certain that TUC will come into play for them, but not helping them as much in the comparisons. I try not to be a billboard, but the siouxsports.com PWR details screens (such as this comparison between UND and Miami) were specifically designed to provide the information necessary for this sort of analysis.

I've been keeping a pretty close eye on things tonight, and am tuning this new server a bit (we moved to a new one last Nov.). I'm afraid the struggling about 10 mins ago was my fault, I was tweaking it a bit and ended up making it really busy right at the same time everyone rushed in from their broken tv. I won't try to make more big changes in real-time while it's in such heavy use, beyond making sure it gets back up when it starts to struggle like it did about 10 mins ago, but should be able to use some of what I've learned tonight to make it much more self-recovering tomorrow. It's tough to do this sort of testing without the real traffic, which is why I'm paying particular attention tonight.

You seem to be having about the same reaction Walrus did, so I think my response to Walrus is probably equally applicable. I seem to have erred in my criticism of theories of conspiracies (which are more about level of organization than motive) because it seems to be distracting from what was meant to be my primary point, motives--