RPI Pick to Click 2015-16

[engineerhockeyfan]

Re: RPI Pick to Click 2015-16

I bet you thought I forgot about this. Oh how I wish I could forget that weekend. Anyway, a very small congratulations to myself for the weekly win, and a very large congratulations to this year's Pick to Click champion, FlagDUDE08!

RPI was led by defenseman Phil Hampton (no one), whose goal sparked hope in the hearts of RPI fans that Friday's game may be a repeat of Game 2. That hope was soon dashed by Harvard MVP Sean Malone (no one), who potted two goals and added a helper to earn himself 5 PtC points. Merrick Madsen (FlagDUDE08) earned a quality start.
Saturday was much worse for the Engineers, though four cherry-clad skaters were able to earn 2 PtC points: Riley Bourbonnais (1 G; ineligible), Jesper Ohrvall (1 G; no one), Lou Nanne (2 A; no one), and Chris Bradley (1 A; no one). The Crimson's best skater once again earned 5 PtC points, as Brayden Jaw (no one) scored a goal and earned an assist. Merrick Madsen (no one) once again earned a quality start.

Results! (and link):
4 + 1 points
lugnut92

3 points
FlagDUDE08

2 points
hawthr
vizoroo

1 point
engineerhockeyfan
Ralph Baer

0 points
RPI fan 4 life

Final Totals

                 |     RPI    |     OPP    |    |   
                 |   F   D   G|   F   D   G| BON| TOT
----------------------------------------------------- 
       FlagDUDE08|  15   4   8|  10   0  49|   6|  92
         lugnut92|  29   4   0|  42   3   0|   5|  83
   RPI fan 4 life|  37   0   0|  40   0   0|   0|  77
       Ralph Baer|  19   6   6|  38   2   0|   4|  75
engineerhockeyfan|  25   0   4|  32   0   0|   3|  64
           hawthr|  28   0   0|  24   3   0|   3|  58
          vizoroo|  14   8   2|  21   4   5|   3|  57
        RHamilton|   0   2   0|   7   2   0|   1|  12
      TuteScrooge|   6   2   0|   0   2   0|   0|  10
      MavHockey14|   2   2   0|   3   0   0|   0|   7
           rsfs04|   0   0   0|   0   0   5|   0|   5
-----------------------------------------------------
            TOTAL| 175  28  20| 217  16  59|  25| 540

I'd like to thank you all for participating. I noticed a trend late in the season where despite current ineligibility rules, everyone picked the same three or four skaters for each team, and almost no one picked defensemen (the last defenseman on the opposing team was picked in early February). With that in mind, I will probably expand ineligibility to the top 2 or 3 forwards next season to encourage creativity and more diverse picks. In addition, I will likely nerf goalies (sorry FlagDUDE) by limiting us to one goalie per weekend (like the current mid-season tournament rule). There's nothing wrong with people working within the system that exists. What FlagDUDE did was clearly very successful, but for reasons that are obvious to some, no other RPI fans are willing to adopt that strategy. I'm open to suggestions about how to make this game better for everyone.

The only suggestion I would have for future games is adding bonus points to players who score hat tricks. And additional points for any goals beyond hat tricks. It just doesn't happen very often and I believe that additional points would make sense.
As for goalies, just eliminate the quality start. You get points for wins and bonuses for shut outs. Nothing for a loss. JMO

 

[FlagDUDE08]

Re: RPI Pick to Click 2015-16

The only suggestion I would have for future games is adding bonus points to players who score hat tricks. And additional points for any goals beyond hat tricks. It just doesn't happen very often and I believe that additional points would make sense.
As for goalies, just eliminate the quality start. You get points for wins and bonuses for shut outs. Nothing for a loss. JMO

The quality start is definitely quite IMBA. However on a rough calculation in my head, it would have been a very close race between lugnut and me, because although I would have lost a lot of points in the beginning of the season, I would have gained them back later in some of the higher scoring losses. It does present an interesting dilemma of "playing it safe" vs. "going for the gusto", because the goalies are almost never the highest scorers of the week.

 

[lugnut92]

Re: RPI Pick to Click 2015-16

The only suggestion I would have for future games is adding bonus points to players who score hat tricks. And additional points for any goals beyond hat tricks. It just doesn't happen very often and I believe that additional points would make sense.
As for goalies, just eliminate the quality start. You get points for wins and bonuses for shut outs. Nothing for a loss. JMO

A hat trick is already 6 points (or 9 for a defenseman). I don't think it's really necessary to juice points for picking forwards beyond what they already are. Over 70% of the points earned this season were from forwards. I would like to incentivize picking defensemen in the future, but I'm not thrilled about making them worth 4/3 instead of 3/2.

The quality start is definitely quite IMBA. However on a rough calculation in my head, it would have been a very close race between lugnut and me, because although I would have lost a lot of points in the beginning of the season, I would have gained them back later in some of the higher scoring losses. It does present an interesting dilemma of "playing it safe" vs. "going for the gusto", because the goalies are almost never the highest scorers of the week.

Goaltender scoring definitely needs to be fixed because with strong RPI goaltending and relatively weak RPI offense, there are just too many quality starts. I think in addition to limiting people to one goalie per week, I may switch to a system of 1 point for a QS and 1 point for a win, or maybe 2 pts for a QS win and 1 pt for a QS tie. The whole point of moving to quality starts from wins was that a goalie can do very well and lose, or do very poorly and win. Quality starts are more closely tied with the actual performance of the goalie. Alternatively, I could just raise the bar for quality start from average or better Sv% to upper quartile (third quintile?) sv% or something like that.

I need to do some playing around this offseason to try to optimize this.

 

[RPI fan 4 life]

Re: RPI Pick to Click 2015-16

Once again, another great job Lugnut!!

I hope that we can get more than 7 regular players for next season. Perhaps we will have to promote this more during the preseason.

My claim to fame this year was earning more RPI points than any other person. Special congrats to hawthr for being the only person who earned more points with RPI players than with their opponents.

Fnally, something will have to be done to try to get more people to start defensemen. Maybe a bonus for PPG or PPA.
It's still a lot of fun and am looking forward to playing again next season.

 

[Ralph Baer]

Re: RPI Pick to Click 2015-16

Once again, another great job Lugnut!!

I hope that we can get more than 7 regular players for next season. Perhaps we will have to promote this more during the preseason.

My claim to fame this year was earning more RPI points than any other person. Special congrats to hawthr for being the only person who earned more points with RPI players than with their opponents.

Fnally, something will have to be done to try to get more people to start defensemen. Maybe a bonus for PPG or PPA.
It's still a lot of fun and am looking forward to playing again next season.

I often wanted to pick D-men, but it was hard to predict which RPI dmen were likely to get points on any given night, and usually the other team's second highest scoring dman was may down in points.

 

[FlagDUDE08]

Re: RPI Pick to Click 2015-16

Once again, another great job Lugnut!!

I hope that we can get more than 7 regular players for next season. Perhaps we will have to promote this more during the preseason.

My claim to fame this year was earning more RPI points than any other person. Special congrats to hawthr for being the only person who earned more points with RPI players than with their opponents.

Fnally, something will have to be done to try to get more people to start defensemen. Maybe a bonus for PPG or PPA.
It's still a lot of fun and am looking forward to playing again next season.

There's no guarantee it will be D-men getting the points next year. It's all dependent on how the teams play that will determine what it's going to take to score.

 

[RPI fan 4 life]

I often wanted to pick D-men, but it was hard to predict which RPI dmen were likely to get points on any given night, and usually the other team's second highest scoring dman was may down in points.

Very true, RB. Or maybe another suggestion would be to let every defenseman be available to be chosen and not let the top 2 forwards be taken.

 

[Ralph Baer]

Re: RPI Pick to Click 2015-16

Very true, RB. Or maybe another suggestion would be to let every defenseman be available to be chosen and not let the top 2 forwards be taken.

I am too lazy to check, but I think that I picked a lot of d-men early and the year and was down in the rankings. I improved when I changed that strategy. Your suggestion might work.

 

[FlagDUDE08]

Re: RPI Pick to Click 2015-16

Very true, RB. Or maybe another suggestion would be to let every defenseman be available to be chosen and not let the top 2 forwards be taken.

Or how about the top two regardless of position, potentially including goaltenders? Granted if one of them somehow pulls a Ron Hextall...