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Rebuilding
It's not "poker patterns", its pattern recognition that I apply to BOTH poker and to sport, including hockey. And it does mean something to hockey. Not as much necessarily to single games, but to seasons as a whole, it does. What I mean by that is that its more accurate when predicting season long patterns than it is single games, and in that regard its similar to poker. There are single hands that go very much against the overall pattern, just as there are single games that go very much against the overall pattern. Maybe the weekend out on the East Coast, with a month long lay off prior to the games, without your coach and your top Center and a reliable back up goalie or whatever it was you said, maybe it was all of those factors that led to SCSU not winning either of those games, or maybe it was PU's goalie having 2 of his best games? And maybe if I watched 30-40 games a weekend, every single weekend, I could know some of these specific things about every single relevant team each season. But I'm not so into college hockey that I would want to watch 30-40 games a weekend. Do you watch 30-40 games a weekend? lol I doubt it. Who does???
I enjoy sports, all of them, men's and women's college basketball and wrestling, women's hockey, gymnastics and even Swimming and Diving, along with Men's Hockey when it comes to winter sports. And sports is not even close to my only interest in life, so with so many diverse interests, I hardly have time to watch 30-40 games a weekend for any one sport.
And I've found that watching games actually negatively affects how well I can analyze the long term patterns and make good predictions, SO, I solve this whole dilemma in a very satisfying way, to me. I limit the games I watch to games the Gopher's play, and so I don't allow myself to bet on the Gophers, and as the season progresses, I stop betting on their conference opponents as well.
So I watch plenty of sports, but not too much, and do incredibly well at betting on sports. Sorry if that makes you think I am not qualified to have an opinion about your college hockey team. But I don't let homer fans instruct me on how to think about their home teams. I learn from them, but only what I need to know.
No. One. Cares.