2016/2016 Lowell Thread: Hoping for Chicago

[LTI Alum]

Re: 2016/2016 Lowell Thread: Hoping for Chicago

I don't feel safe at all. Things are so so so tight in the pairwise right now. Last nights Providence loss dropped them from 8 to 12 in a blink of an eye. That loss was to the 18th ranked team at the time in pairwise on the road. With that said, tonight game vs Umass is huge. I would imagine if we were to lose to them and the other teams that are hot on our heals won...we would then be a bubble team going into the BC weekend.

Agreed. Tonight is biggest trap game imaginable. I just hope our boys don't read these threads that have a lot of us, myself included, calculating positions based on already winning tonight. One game at a time!

[leswp1]

Re: 2016/2016 Lowell Thread: Hoping for Chicago

I never think of this stuff until I come in here. Gigantic logic problem that has too many variables. That and I started watching when every win was a victory.

[riverchief1]

Re: 2016/2016 Lowell Thread: Hoping for Chicago

I don't feel safe at all. Things are so so so tight in the pairwise right now. Last nights Providence loss dropped them from 8 to 12 in a blink of an eye. That loss was to the 18th ranked team at the time in pairwise on the road. With that said, tonight game vs Umass is huge. I would imagine if we were to lose to them and the other teams that are hot on our heals won...we would then be a bubble team going into the BC weekend.

As I said "...looking sort of safe at 8 but shouldn't tempt fate and just keep winning." (not totally safe). Tonight's game scares the crap out of me as it has the potential to be the classic Lowell "lack of urgency/play down" scenario. That, and how the game went last weekend against Amherst (despite the win), should make everyone nervous. I would love to see a game like the RPI smackdown back in January, none of this toying with them and trying fancy stuff. Just put them away.

With that I've been reevalutating my position on never going to Amherst again and may head out. Who else is going?

[Patman]

Re: 2016/2016 Lowell Thread: Hoping for Chicago

I don't feel safe at all. Things are so so so tight in the pairwise right now. Last nights Providence loss dropped them from 8 to 12 in a blink of an eye. That loss was to the 18th ranked team at the time in pairwise on the road. With that said, tonight game vs Umass is huge. I would imagine if we were to lose to them and the other teams that are hot on our heals won...we would then be a bubble team going into the BC weekend.

want be "safe" win the next 3 games... otherwise, no such animal

[ScottK]

Re: 2016/2016 Lowell Thread: Hoping for Chicago

want be "safe" win the next 3 games... otherwise, no such animal

At least one observer thinks that barring a total collapse, we're just about in already: http://blog.collegehockeyranked.com/...egular-season/

[Leecoffee9]

Re: 2016/2016 Lowell Thread: Hoping for Chicago

Anyone ever watch a feed from The Flagship? Wondering if it'll be worth the $6.95 to stream??

[boblav1]

Re: 2016/2016 Lowell Thread: Hoping for Chicago

Tonight's game scares the crap out of me as it has the potential to be the classic Lowell "lack of urgency/play down" scenario. That, and how the game went last weekend against Amherst (despite the win), should make everyone nervous.

I feel the same way. Amherst has nothing to lose and can play the spoiler. A loss tonight would be a pairwise disaster. Just take care of business one game at a time.

[boblav1]

Re: 2016/2016 Lowell Thread: Hoping for Chicago

Anyone ever watch a feed from The Flagship? Wondering if it'll be worth the $6.95 to stream??

It's not that bad for the money. I'm trying to decide whether to make the drive or just pay for the stream.

[riverchief1]

Re: 2016/2016 Lowell Thread: Hoping for Chicago

It's not that bad for money. I'm trying to decide whether to make the drive or just pay for the stream.

I think I'm heading out shortly, against my better judgement from about 15 years ago. I hope I don't regret this.

[LTI Alum]

Re: 2016/2016 Lowell Thread: Hoping for Chicago

I don't think you will have a bad time from their fans. Rafters sports bar has great wings one intersection from the football stadium, 3 minutes from Mullen if you're interested

[riverchief1]

I don't think you will have a bad time from their fans. Rafters sports bar has great wings one intersection from the football stadium, 3 minutes from Mullen if you're interested

We'll see. The last visit was an event filled evening from start to finish that required campus police being needed to safely escort the Lowell fans out of Mullins.

[LTI Alum]

Re: 2016/2016 Lowell Thread: Hoping for Chicago

We'll see. The last visit was an event filled evening from start to finish that required campus police being needed to safely escort the Lowell fans out of Mullins.

Yikes!

[leswp1]

Re: 2016/2016 Lowell Thread: Hoping for Chicago

There were a few places that police escorts were needed in the past- UNH was another one. It wasn't even our fans being obnoxious

[riverchief1]

Yikes!

Yeah, it was a lot of fun. From the redneck local fans with bad behavior we dealt with outside before even entering to the most obnoxious, vile student fans inside and everything in between.

[Patman]

Re: 2016/2016 Lowell Thread: Hoping for Chicago

At least one observer thinks that barring a total collapse, we're just about in already: http://blog.collegehockeyranked.com/...egular-season/

in the past Jim hasn't included the playoffs for the same reason I haven't tried yet... the tie-breakers are a problem to program if you aren't a skilled coder.

To that end, as I've said in the past, I can write the game score prediction model. If somebody else can write the code to faithfully execute all tie-breakers for the conferences (hard) and then the conference tournaments (easy-ish) then we can do anything post-beanpot... pre-beanpot would be a special encode for the beanpot... and further back for other tournaments.