Reply With QuoteI never understood the taking care of things yourself mentality, especially when you can just leave your fate in someone else’s hands...Originally Posted by smbenny
Or just win the conference tournament.
I never understood the taking care of things yourself mentality, especially when you can just leave your fate in someone else’s hands...
The tournament final is but one game of 26 or so (3.8% of the body of work involved) yet that one game can negate the entire conference regular season.
How that situation makes sense to anyone is a continuing source of confusion to me, and I'm trying to be polite here.
So let's just play that right away in October, and cut to the chase..? We could wrap the whole season up before Thanksgiving that way, and avoid the many meaningless games through the winter.
Last edited by Fishman'81; 08-03-2019 at 08:57 PM.
Just bustin’ balls here (of course), but the NCAA Quarterfinal, Semifinal, and Championship games are an even smaller percentage of the overall body of work, yet any of those can also negate/end your season.The tournament final is but one game of 26 or so (3.8% of the body of work involved) yet that one game can negate the entire conference regular season.
How that situation makes sense to anyone is a continuing source of confusion to me, and I'm trying to be polite here.
Ultimately, it all comes-down to... just win, Baby!!
Cheers!!!
~TTF
Last edited by Transplanted Tiger Fan; 08-03-2019 at 09:44 PM.
That's true, too, of course.
But at least selecting the field for that final shot at the hardware might employ a better use of the available data. There are always teams that sneak-in, without the credentials to warrant that.
Anyway, cheers right back at you, sincerely. You made a good point.
Mine, was that a team gets a National bid if it has a body of work that stands-up to scrutiny, and not just on the basis of a mere weekend of our fickle game.
Last edited by Fishman'81; 08-03-2019 at 11:40 PM.
every college sport is that way for most conferences.The tournament final is but one game of 26 or so (3.8% of the body of work involved) yet that one game can negate the entire conference regular season.
How that situation makes sense to anyone is a continuing source of confusion to me, and I'm trying to be polite here.
Especially in Division III.
2007-2008 ECAC East/NESCAC Interlock Pick 'em winner
2007-2008 Last Person Standing Winner,
2013-2014 Last Person Standing Winner (tie)
2016-2017 Last Person Standing Winner
Head meet wall....
Wall meet head.....
Any questions?
But, does the mere fact that it's commonplace render it either fair or logical..?
Last edited by Fishman'81; 08-04-2019 at 10:39 PM.
Prof, as a professional statistician, I can't believe for a nano-second that you find this system equitable. Don't you agree that these tournaments (potentially) expunge months' worth of data for the sake of a brief sideshow?
Yeah!
Tell me why you think it makes sense. I'm all ears.
(And, BTW, how have you been? We haven't argued in years.)
It's 100% equitable because everybody just needs to win their conference to make the tournament (assuming your conference has an autobid)
#OneKnight
The real injustice is that Utica had to play such a big, strong, and old team in their conference championship.
Well, yeah, Utica had to win the conference twice to advance, while M'ville could just get hot for 10 days, and negate the previous and much-larger body of work. That sort of thing flies in the face of any semblance of logic.
And, Champs, don't pound your head against the wall. I realize that I harp on certain points, but only because it's so frustrating to witness the ongoing parade of stupid traditions.
D-3 actually employs a PWR, finally. Who saw that coming? Somebody must have complained about the smoke-filled room BS...
And it's possible that the silly conference tournaments AQ calculus will someday succumb to the same sort of common-sense, too.
Last edited by Fishman'81; 08-05-2019 at 10:22 PM.
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One question: who has the picture of the dead horse?
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Plattsburgh State Class of '99
If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, then what is baby oil made from?
Morrisville?
Skidmore?
I don't see the dead horse here. People got tired of the old selection process, and some progress has been made in that regard. And the eliminating the tournament AQ's is the next logical path forward.
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