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RPI Hockey 2012-2013 Part III: There Will Be Math Involved

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fr joe said:
I was wondering that myself... those were Ken's words, not mine. I remember the Deventhal era, the days of 40% pride,and Ben Barr's initial claim to fame in Schenectady. I also remember when Schenectady's daily was widely known as 'the good grey Gazette.'
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Then Ken has a short memory, although he may remember the Phillies from 1950 is if they were yesterday. :D ;)
 
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I've been trying to figure out our RatingsPI, and am only able to get to .4902. I do know that Notre Dame and Michigan Tech do not yet factor into our formula, and that CCT/SLU are still opponents of opponents because we haven't played them yet. Is anyone else able to get to .4998? It doesn't look like the Sacred Heart game affected our RatingsPI, in fact taking it out may have made it worse...
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
I've been trying to figure out our RatingsPI, and am only able to get to .4902. I do know that Notre Dame and Michigan Tech do not yet factor into our formula, and that CCT/SLU are still opponents of opponents because we haven't played them yet. Is anyone else able to get to .4998? It doesn't look like the Sacred Heart game affected our RatingsPI, in fact taking it out may have made it worse...
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I have never written a program to figure this out myself, but can't teams figure in as both opponents and opponents of opponents? E.g., Union is both figured in (and currently weighted double) as an opponent, and Union also counts as an opponent's opponent via Cornell, Colgate, QU (four times since we played QU twice and QU played Union twice), etc., etc.
 
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DrDemento said:
Nah-we will probably head out to a different hockey game. Haven't seen anything advertised as far as a movie i want to see.:( Will take the wife-and would love to take a mistres but Jenny would perform some exotic surgery on me and hang them from a tree.:eek: Not to mention that i would have to have the cats tasting my food for a long time.;)
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Laughed out loud on this. Classic.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
I have never written a program to figure this out myself, but can't teams figure in as both opponents and opponents of opponents? E.g., Union is both figured in (and currently weighted double) as an opponent, and Union also counts as an opponent's opponent via Cornell, Colgate, QU (four times since we played QU twice and QU played Union twice), etc., etc.
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Taking a look... http://siouxsports.com/hockey/rankings/help/rpi.htm#calculate

That might explain some things. I need to take out and put in a few games in my consideration.
 
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AspyDad said:
I respectfully disagree. You rightly point out that special teams and especially PP is very important but more so is goaltending and I do not see too many teams with the netminder we have. I do see your wait and see attitude but this team has a run in it...call it my gut.
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Him being .001 from the #1 spot in save % in the NCAA (if he had enough minutes to qualify) seems to back up your gut feeling.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
I have never written a program to figure this out myself, but can't teams figure in as both opponents and opponents of opponents? E.g., Union is both figured in (and currently weighted double) as an opponent, and Union also counts as an opponent's opponent via Cornell, Colgate, QU (four times since we played QU twice and QU played Union twice), etc., etc.
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Just have to say that the title of this thread fits perfectly.
 
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Looking at stats, Mark McGowan has 3 GWGs. Top in the ECAC is 4, by Russell Goodman (QPac) and Eric Robinson (Dartmouth).
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
Looking at stats, Mark McGowan has 3 GWGs. Top in the ECAC is 4, by Russell Goodman (QPac) and Eric Robinson (Dartmouth).
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McGowan has shown as much improvement as anyone on this team. I had high hopes for him well before he came to Troy-but he is just buzzing right now and has to be a nightmare for other teams to try and check off the puck. His ability to maintain control of the puck in corners while cycling is helping the entire flow in the offensive zone for us.
 
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DrDemento said:
McGowan has shown as much improvement as anyone on this team. I had high hopes for him well before he came to Troy-but he is just buzzing right now and has to be a nightmare for other teams to try and check off the puck. His ability to maintain control of the puck in corners while cycling is helping the entire flow in the offensive zone for us.
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I agree that McGowan has shown a lot of improvement recently, and i didn't have nearly as high an opinion of him as you did originally. I hope that he can keep it up. (I won't choose him in the PtC -- that should help. :D )
 
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Ralph Baer said:
I agree that McGowan has shown a lot of improvement recently, and i didn't have nearly as high an opinion of him as you did originally. I hope that he can keep it up. (I won't choose him in the PtC -- that should help. :D )
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In speaking of recently, as much as stock in McGowan is going up, stock in Laliberté seems to be going down. Are teams just putting the best D players on him (along with Bubela and Zalewski)? I may have to look more closely at what happened last week with those three on the ice...
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
In speaking of recently, as much as stock in McGowan is going up, stock in Laliberté seems to be going down. Are teams just putting the best D players on him (along with Bubela and Zalewski)? I may have to look more closely at what happened last week with those three on the ice...
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I wondered that too, or if he just doesn't mesh well with Bubela and Zalewski. If he ties up the other team's checking line, letting other lines score, that's fine too.
 
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