RPI 2010-11 Part II: RPI, the Other Team, the Refs -- We're outnumbered 10 to 6.

[Ralph Baer]

Re: RPI 2010-11 Part II: RPI, the Other Team, the Refs -- We're outnumbered 10 to 6.

Monday's Record article http://www.troyrecord.com/articles/2010/11/14/sports/doc4ce0b7add4cb3979460097.txt

Nothing particularly new.

 

[mackek2]

Re: RPI 2010-11 Part II: RPI, the Other Team, the Refs -- We're outnumbered 10 to 6.

I promised some numbers from Saturdays game from our website, and here they are:

This is our second most popular sports production of all time by viewer hours (number of hours spent by people actually watching video), with 95 hours, but falling short of our most popular, Football vs. Alfred University with just over 100 hours. The Alfred game has been posted for about a month, where as this game has been up for less than 2 full days. This accounts for 2.6% of our total streaming.

Since posting the video, we have uploaded 114 gigabytes of data from our streaming server, 83 of which are from this hockey game. We have seen 746 people visit the page 991 times from 37 states and countries spending, on average, 24 minute and 39 seconds on that page. 20% of the visitors came directly to our page, 17% came from links posted here, 15% from facebook, 14% from reddit, 12% from rpitathletics.com, and the rest from other places. People coming from these forums ended up spending just under 20 minutes on the page.

If you could all do us a huge favor, goto http://www.facebook.com/pages/RPI-TV/139989560363 and like our page. There is a contest among RPI Student Union clubs to get the most 'likes' on their facebook pages, and we would love to kick some butt! (It is worth some money for us!)

Lets hope we have some more amazing hockey games this season! We love to shoot them, and from what we have read, people love to watch them! We are the best (possibly only) school that does productions like we do, and I am confident, the only school who makes the games available to watch free online the next day. I also really hope that we can offer our own live streams of all of the games, hopefully free, without b2, like we did for the tournament against Brown in March. We received many comments and read things on this and other forums how we were the best online hockey webcast people had ever seen!
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[Ralph Baer]

Re: RPI 2010-11 Part II: RPI, the Other Team, the Refs -- We're outnumbered 10 to 6.

I promised some numbers from Saturdays game from our website, and here they are:

This is our second most popular sports production of all time by viewer hours (number of hours spent by people actually watching video), with 95 hours, but falling short of our most popular, Football vs. Alfred University with just over 100 hours. The Alfred game has been posted for about a month, where as this game has been up for less than 2 full days. This accounts for 2.6% of our total streaming.

Since posting the video, we have uploaded 114 gigabytes of data from our streaming server, 83 of which are from this hockey game. We have seen 746 people visit the page 991 times from 37 states and countries spending, on average, 24 minute and 39 seconds on that page. 20% of the visitors came directly to our page, 17% came from links posted here, 15% from facebook, 14% from reddit, 12% from rpitathletics.com, and the rest from other places. People coming from these forums ended up spending just under 20 minutes on the page.

If you could all do us a huge favor, goto http://www.facebook.com/pages/RPI-TV/139989560363 and like our page. There is a contest among RPI Student Union clubs to get the most 'likes' on their facebook pages, and we would love to kick some butt! (It is worth some money for us!)

Lets hope we have some more amazing hockey games this season! We love to shoot them, and from what we have read, people love to watch them! We are the best (possibly only) school that does productions like we do, and I am confident, the only school who makes the games available to watch free online the next day. I also really hope that we can offer our own live streams of all of the games, hopefully free, without b2, like we did for the tournament against Brown in March. We received many comments and read things on this and other forums how we were the best online hockey webcast people had ever seen!

A football game is leading in interest? I'll have to do watch the whole hockey game again.

Sorry that I can't give you a "like" as that would require me to join facebook.

 

[mackek2]

Re: RPI 2010-11 Part II: RPI, the Other Team, the Refs -- We're outnumbered 10 to 6.

A football game is leading in interest? I'll have to do watch the whole hockey game again.

Sorry that I can't give you a "like" as that would require me to join facebook.

To be fair, it was a very exciting football game as well! Winning/tying/loosing in the last minute seems to be a common thing for both teams this year.

 

[FlagDUDE08]

Re: RPI 2010-11 Part II: RPI, the Other Team, the Refs -- We're outnumbered 10 to 6.

To be fair, it was a very exciting football game as well! Winning/tying/loosing in the last minute seems to be a common thing for both teams this year.

I was at that game, we almost blew it, too. I'm sure many wanted to see the GW FG, or to hear the ref say in his thick accent, "Please reset the game clock to 45 seconds."

I think one of the big differences between you and some other sites is your service, how not only are you open to critiques, but are willing to thoroughly investigate the issues in order to make your product better. I realize some products are just too large that they can't really do that, but it's really nice to see, and something I would be willing to pay for, especially given your cross-platform-cross-browser abilities.

 

[Ralph Baer]

Re: RPI 2010-11 Part II: RPI, the Other Team, the Refs -- We're outnumbered 10 to 6.

mackek2,

I saw your video in the Test forum. Although the USCHO moderators are probably even more unpredictable than ECAC refs, I suspect that they won't like the fact that the video autoplays. Why not make the watcher click the play button? Then again, it is easy enough to turn it off once it starts. It isn't as if you have hidden the control. JMHO.

 

[FlagDUDE08]

Re: RPI 2010-11 Part II: RPI, the Other Team, the Refs -- We're outnumbered 10 to 6.

mackek2,

I saw your video in the Test forum. Although the USCHO moderators are probably even more unpredictable than ECAC refs, I suspect that they won't like the fact that the video autoplays. Why not make the watcher click the play button? Then again, it is easy enough to turn it off once it starts. It isn't as if you have hidden the control. JMHO.

Ralph, what browser and OS are you using? Sometimes there is dependence upon this. I know you have seen issues whereas I (using Firefox for Linux) have not, and vice versa. I realize the RPI-TV representatives don't have every possible combination of OS and Browser, but I think between us (being all of the regular RPI posters) and them, we can get a good basis for what works and what does not.

EDIT: In my case, the video autoplays, although I am currently using Firefox for Windows XP. Based upon the title of the thread, it seems like that's the point.

 

[Ralph Baer]

Re: RPI 2010-11 Part II: RPI, the Other Team, the Refs -- We're outnumbered 10 to 6.

Ralph, what browser and OS are you using? Sometimes there is dependence upon this. I know you have seen issues whereas I (using Firefox for Linux) have not, and vice versa. I realize the RPI-TV representatives don't have every possible combination of OS and Browser, but I think between us (being all of the regular RPI posters) and them, we can get a good basis for what works and what does not.

EDIT: In my case, the video autoplays, although I am currently using Firefox for Windows. Based upon the title of the thread, it seems like that's the point.

I am using IE8 and Vista. I also just tested it with Chrome and Vista. Both autoplay as intended.

 

[Waite21]

Re: RPI 2010-11 Part II: RPI, the Other Team, the Refs -- We're outnumbered 10 to 6.

Just a quick note for the football fans-RPI was selected to play against St John Fisher in an ECAC Playoff game (but not NCAA Division III championship series). Historically we have done extremely well in these playoff games. In fact, I cannot remember losing any of them( I believe we are 8-0). We have only lost games in the NCAA Tournament. Congrats to coach King and the boys for being selected for a playoff game for the 8th time in the past 10 years. Go Red!!(It will at least hopefully keep Kurt busy for one more weekend game)

BTW-during the early mid 60's when I followed RPI football as a student we were 1-25-1. Not exactly playoff worthy!

St. John Fisher plays in the Empire 8 conference (the name is interesting, considering that there are only six members in football and not all of them are located in the Empire State). They finished in a three-way tie (with Springfield and Ithaca) for second place, with a conference record of 3-2. They won all five of their out-of-conference games, so their overall record is 8-2.

RPI played two Empire 8 teams this season, Alfred and Utica. RPI beat Alfred, 27-24, but lost decisively to Utica, 42-21.

Guessing game - Which team won the Empire 8 championship with a perfect 5-0 conference record? Which team finished dead last at 0-5?

 

[FlagDUDE08]

Re: RPI 2010-11 Part II: RPI, the Other Team, the Refs -- We're outnumbered 10 to 6.

St. John Fisher plays in the Empire 8 conference (the name is interesting, considering that there are only six members in football and not all of them are located in the Empire State). They finished in a three-way tie (with Springfield and Ithaca) for second place, with a conference record of 3-2. They won all five of their out-of-conference games, so their overall record is 8-2.

RPI played two Empire 8 teams this season, Alfred and Utica. RPI beat Alfred, 27-24, but lost decisively to Utica, 42-21.

Guessing game - Which team won the Empire 8 championship with a perfect 5-0 conference record? Which team finished dead last at 0-5?

Alfred went Hawaii, and Utica went Iiawah.

 

[DrDemento]

Re: RPI 2010-11 Part II: RPI, the Other Team, the Refs -- We're outnumbered 10 to 6.

St. John Fisher plays in the Empire 8 conference (the name is interesting, considering that there are only six members in football and not all of them are located in the Empire State). They finished in a three-way tie (with Springfield and Ithaca) for second place, with a conference record of 3-2. They won all five of their out-of-conference games, so their overall record is 8-2.

RPI played two Empire 8 teams this season, Alfred and Utica. RPI beat Alfred, 27-24, but lost decisively to Utica, 42-21.

Guessing game - Which team won the Empire 8 championship with a perfect 5-0 conference record? Which team finished dead last at 0-5?

Fascinating that we could beat the best of that league and lose to the last place team. This kind of described our season. We beat Union and Hobart (a rare feat for us in the same year) and lost to SLU who won the conference but was only 5-5 for the season. If we beat SLU we are in the NCAA tournament-but like SLU would probably draw Mt Union which will be an embarrassing defeat. I suspect MU will be a 45 point favorite over SLU. St John Fisher will be tough enough for us but it sure would be nice to keep our perfect record in ECAC playoff games intact. Go Red!!

 

[Senna]

Re: RPI 2010-11 Part II: RPI, the Other Team, the Refs -- We're outnumbered 10 to 6.

Senna-we are averaging about 2.55 goals per game offensively-move that up a goal a game to 3.55 and keep the defense at their current level and we could be an NCAA tournament team.

That was exactly my point (or what I intended). This team is an inch away, and that's why I'm so excited overall.

 

[FlagDUDE08]

Re: RPI 2010-11 Part II: RPI, the Other Team, the Refs -- We're outnumbered 10 to 6.

That was exactly my point (or what I intended). This team is an inch away, and that's why I'm so excited overall.

So were the Tennessee Titans in the Super Bowl the year of the Music City Illegal Forward Pass (actually 1 yard, but the same difference nonetheless). We have to find a way to gain that inch, otherwise, come the end of the season, we may just be supremely disappointed.

 

[johnk]

Re: RPI 2010-11 Part II: RPI, the Other Team, the Refs -- We're outnumbered 10 to 6.

Great weekend of hockey even with some mediocre officiating. Atmosphere was pretty much what college hockey is all about. What happened to the horn at the fieldhouse?

 

[mackek2]

Re: RPI 2010-11 Part II: RPI, the Other Team, the Refs -- We're outnumbered 10 to 6.

mackek2,

I saw your video in the Test forum. Although the USCHO moderators are probably even more unpredictable than ECAC refs, I suspect that they won't like the fact that the video autoplays. Why not make the watcher click the play button? Then again, it is easy enough to turn it off once it starts. It isn't as if you have hidden the control. JMHO.

Yeah, before I start letting everybody embed I am going to disable auto-play. This is using a generic config file which has autoplay enabled.

What do you mean ECAC refs are unpredictable? At this point we have a pretty good idea as to who is going to be bad even before the game starts.

 

[burgie12]

Re: RPI 2010-11 Part II: RPI, the Other Team, the Refs -- We're outnumbered 10 to 6.

Great weekend of hockey even with some mediocre officiating. Atmosphere was pretty much what college hockey is all about. What happened to the horn at the fieldhouse?

During the WRPI broadcast, they stated that the horn was on the fritz, so they were piping one in through the PA. No further explanation was given.

 

[Ralph Baer]

Re: RPI 2010-11 Part II: RPI, the Other Team, the Refs -- We're outnumbered 10 to 6.

What do you mean ECAC refs are unpredictable? At this point we have a pretty good idea as to who is going to be bad even before the game starts.

E.g., I was quite shocked that the officials didn't find a bogus reason for calling a penalty on RPI in OT.

 

[redhead18]

Re: RPI 2010-11 Part II: RPI, the Other Team, the Refs -- We're outnumbered 10 to 6.

Patrick Koudys remains at #28 overall for the November Int'l Scouting Services (ISS) top 30 list, he's moved up to the 9th ranked Dman, he was 11th last month.

http://www.hockeysfuture.com/articles/12509/iss_top30_risers_and_fallers_november2010/

28 Koudys, Patrick (Fr.), LD 11/15/92 L 6.02.25 195 Rensselaer ECAC

 

[Ralph Baer]

Re: RPI 2010-11 Part II: RPI, the Other Team, the Refs -- We're outnumbered 10 to 6.

Patrick Koudys remains at #28 overall for the November Int'l Scouting Services (ISS) top 30 list, he's moved up to the 9th ranked Dman, he was 11th last month.

http://www.hockeysfuture.com/articles/12509/iss_top30_risers_and_fallers_november2010/

Shouldn't the NHL CSB be releasing their first lists of college players and Tier I junior league players (including the USHL) soon?

 

[redhead18]

Re: RPI 2010-11 Part II: RPI, the Other Team, the Refs -- We're outnumbered 10 to 6.

Shouldn't the NHL CSB be releasing their first lists of college players and Tier I junior league players (inluding the USHL) soon?

I would think it should be out rather soon, the other list has been out for quite some time now.