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RPI 2013 Part V: Who Wants Screech?

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RKarger said:
This is awesome - exactly what I've been wanting to see for a while. Thank you!
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RHamilton said:
So, here's 1/2 of the tool I was talking about:

http://pwr.reillyhamilton.com/query.php
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Following up on this, here's the 2nd half:
http://pwr.reillyhamilton.com/query2.php

This will generate the game breakdowns (like this) based on your input.

This one is WAY more experimental and hard to explain, so I'm not sharing it in the other PWR thread just yet.
 
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johnk said:
Extra motivation doesn't lead to execution.
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totally agree. My thought, even if poorly expressed, was not so much that we need "motivation" as we need mental discipline. We have the desire and the talent and the ability, and we are not lazy nor apathetic. From time to time our minds just seem to wander. Perhaps that is inexperience, or immaturity (in the old-fashioned sense of "still engaged in the maturation process"), or occasional complacency, who knows. As DrD has so eloquently expressed, a few momentarily lapses in key moments in four or five games have probably cost us a # 3 seed if not a # 2 seed this year. It's that lesson, not "motivation," that needs to be seared into our awareness for next season's promise to reach fulfillment.
 
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FreshFish said:
totally agree. My thought, even if poorly expressed, was not so much that we need "motivation" as we need mental discipline. We have the desire and the talent and the ability, and we are not lazy nor apathetic. From time to time our minds just seem to wander. Perhaps that is inexperience, or immaturity (in the old-fashioned sense of "still engaged in the maturation process"), or occasional complacency, who knows. As DrD has so eloquently expressed, a few momentarily lapses in key moments in four or five games have probably cost us a # 3 seed if not a # 2 seed this year. It's that lesson, not "motivation," that needs to be seared into our awareness for next season's promise to reach fulfillment.
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This kind of "stuff" occurs with every individual who participates on a team and I am not sure you can definitively define it. I would say that it also occurs on every team and to fix it would need year's of research in order to identify it. Just like "fulfillment" might be defined differently to you than let's say DrD........right Doc? :)
 
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sk8tronthepond said:
This kind of "stuff" occurs with every individual who participates on a team and I am not sure you can definitively define it. I would say that it also occurs on every team and to fix it would need year's of research in order to identify it. Just like "fulfillment" might be defined differently to you than let's say DrD........right Doc? :)
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Maybe Seth needs to buy the boys a copy of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs It's all about self-actualization in the end, right? ;)
 
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sk8tronthepond said:
This kind of "stuff" occurs with every individual who participates on a team and I am not sure you can definitively define it. I would say that it also occurs on every team and to fix it would need year's of research in order to identify it.
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Well, John Wooden and Geno Auriemma sure do seem to have figured it out. Their players played the same way on every play no matter what the score. Sure they had lapses now and then, that's human, but it was more from fatigue and immaturity (in the old-fashioned sense of "still developing") than lack of focus. It takes an incredible amount of conditioning of the mind and will as well as of the body. You have to work on it explicitly. If you are a basketball player, you might simulate an end of game situation by running sprints and doing pushups and then immediately go into free-throw shooting drills while people yell at you and threaten terrible things if you miss. You have to train your mind on how you want it to behave in key situations, you cannot take it for granted that your mind will always do what you want it to do.

Also based on personal experience I have to disagree with you: one of the most important elements in learning how to recharge your body "on the fly" comes by recognizing a moment here or a moment there when you can "reboot" so to speak with a few deep breaths and mental exercises. It's a little hard to explain on a website and pretty easy to demonstrate face to face. It takes discipline and training, yes, but a strong and disciplined mind is essential to success at the highest levels no matter what your field of endeavor. it is because it is difficult that it takes hard work and deliberate focus.

also, the "research" you mention has been done and is available, and many pro athletes at the highest levels already use it. our high school cross country coach in the 1970s was aware of some of that information even back then and taught some of it to us. Basically, we first have to learn how to be aware of our nature and then we have to learn how to recognize those times at which you must invoke learned habits in order to counteract our natural tendencies.

yes I would agree that it is "understandable" that these lapses occur, I merely argue that it does not necessarily make it "acceptable."
 
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I'm trying to find the minimum number of games that have to go our way for us to be guaranteed a NCAA bid. I've gotten it down to 9:

Niagara wins AHA
Miami beats Michigan
Yale beats Union
Quinnipiac beats Brown
BC beats BU
UML beats Providence
Minnesota beats CC
St. Cloud beats Wisconsin

With these results, we could still end up as high as 14th. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a way that has us guaranteed a spot before tomorrow's games. We could be out by then, if as few as three games go badly.
 
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Things like what RHamilton is doing are what makes this fan base great. Proud to be an RPI alum.
 
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FreshFish said:
yes I would agree that it is "understandable" that these lapses occur, I merely argue that it does not necessarily make it "acceptable."
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They have figured it out for most but not all......some players struggle with self awareness, which in a fast game of hockey, may cause one to be tentative. If there is no self awareness, and that is "unacceptable" by YOUR measures, how might you arrive at the ramifications for this "unacceptable" behavior which HAS to be consistent in consequence throughout the team, keeping in mind, everyone is different?
 
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In order of positive impact on our chances, here is who we want to win tonight and what our probability becomes based on just that game.

St. Cloud 22.9
BC 21.6
Lowell 20.1
Niagara 19.3
Miami 18.5
Yale 18.1
Mercyhurst 16.8
OSU 16.3
Minnesota 16.2
Quin 15
 
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sk8tronthepond said:
They have figured it out for most but not all......some players struggle with self awareness, which in a fast game of hockey, may cause one to be tentative. If there is no self awareness, and that is "unacceptable" by YOUR measures, how might you arrive at the ramifications for this "unacceptable" behavior which HAS to be consistent in consequence throughout the team, keeping in mind, everyone is different?
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Huh? might you rephrase? I'm having trouble sorting out your nested clauses...:confused:

Subsequent edit: I'm not a hockey coach, so I can't address your questions about that sport. When I coached other team sports, at every practice part of the time would be on team drills and part would be on individual skills drills and part on mental conditioning. For example, we'd actually practice a "peripheral vision" drill so that players would keep primary visual focus on the ball yet be forced to become more aware of what was occurring in their peripheral vision (we'd wait until they were about to hit the ball and then point to which side they should direct the ball for example). It can be really challenging for some people to "focus" on something that is necessarily out-of-focus while still keeping their primary focus on the ball, if you can follow what I'm trying to say.

there also was a phenomenal visualization drill: you divide your field of vision in to four quadrants: upper left you visualize the ideal form of the motion you are in the process of performing, upper right is your primary visual focus, lower left and lower right were different parts of your peripheral vision and were sport-specific.

Maybe we are using the same words with different meanings, but you do not want "self-" awareness in a certain sense, you want more of a Zen state: the motions of the basic skills should be so deeply ingrained that they are reflexive so that you spread your awareness outside yourself into the flow of the action around you. It is "self-"awareness that causes a player to become tentative. Try thinking consciously about which muscles to use when you walk, for example, and walking becomes difficult.
 
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jmhusker said:
In order of positive impact on our chances, here is who we want to win tonight and what our probability becomes based on just that game.

St. Cloud 22.9
BC 21.6
Lowell 20.1
Niagara 19.3
Miami 18.5
Yale 18.1
Mercyhurst 16.8
OSU 16.3
Minnesota 16.2
Quin 15
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With Q-Pac winning, our probability goes down, eh? Or is that just a DIYD^2 situation?
 
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jmhusker said:
In order of positive impact on our chances, here is who we want to win tonight and what our probability becomes based on just that game.

St. Cloud 22.9
BC 21.6
Lowell 20.1
Niagara 19.3
Miami 18.5
Yale 18.1
Mercyhurst 16.8
OSU 16.3
Minnesota 16.2
Quin 15
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Miami and Ohio State don't play tonight.
 
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