A Different Look at the HL Standings

[HC]

I really REALLY like these! Great job.

[LaPorteAveApostle]

Thanks!  I forgot that one thing I did add last year is an indication of which games were happening during the following week, so here's an update (already doing things wrong...what is this, a stat thread? : )

[bbtds]

Thanks!  I forgot that one thing I did add last year is an indication of which games were happening during the following week, so here's an update (already doing things wrong...what is this, a stat thread? : )

Good thing it's not the Over-Under thread or historyman would have to check each game to make sure it was correct. 

EDIT: wait a minute, wait a minute......I already found a mistake.............look closely at the dates and you'll see it. hint:when is Valentine's Day?

[LaPorteAveApostle]

wow.  that's...just...wow.

[Kyle321n]

Well, here we go.  But don't get mad at me.  (At least not for this!)

RAWR ANGER! UNABLE TO FIND PROPER DIRECTION TO EXPRESS ANGER!

But seriously, nice job. I love the pretty colors.

[LaPorteAveApostle]

Yeah, CSU is first, but nobody else already got to play YSU and UIC on the road either.  That'll even out...

[historyman]

tsk, tsk

I don't believe Valpo was in 6th position "last week" and moved up to tied for 2nd. Valpo only played one game and beat WSU. Which would mean Valpo passed up WSU, Detroit, Oakland and tied Green Bay by winning one game. You are saying Valpo was 3-1 and in 6th place. Am I missing something?

[HC]

Yes you are...in LAA's system you only get credit for road victories and lose credit for home losses. Valpo was holding serve until that win at WSU.

[LaPorteAveApostle]

also we're not tied with GB.  Yet.

[Kyle321n]

*cough*an update would be nice*cough*

Of the 29 Horizon League games, the home team has won 20 of them. The fact that we have 2 of the 9 league road wins is great. CSU has 3 of those wins and Green Bay has 2 of them. I'm not sure if that's a good sign that we have a strong upper tier or that we don't have a good spread of talent. Either way it's good that we have 22% of the road wins!

[LaPorteAveApostle]

[LaPorteAveApostle]

As always, these standings and the real standings begin to track one another more closely until the end when they're identical.

Notice CSU and we have earned our 3 road points over the same victims...we're really, really tied.

Also note that instead of 3 tiers of teams, as it appeared a week or two ago--the Good (us, UWGB, CSU), the Bad (Oak, UDM, WSU), and the Ugly (UWM, UIC, YSU), we now have just Good (us, UWGB, CSU, & Oak) and Not Really Very Good At All (UDM, WSU, UWM, UIC, YSU).

Ok, well prove it?  The only loss by a Good team to a NRVGAA team is Oak @ UDM.

...of course now that I've said that someone will try to prove me wrong, but you won't.

[talksalot]

GB up 12 at the Nutter at the Half...

[oklahomamick]

Yep, I put 20% of my paycheck this month on GB -6.  Easy money.  Vegas was off on this one...

[LaPorteAveApostle]

another exciting week of basketball.  at this point the actual standings will be more useful than these because GB is #1 due to one fewer game, etc.  But for the first time I give you the If The Season Ended Today Tournament Bracket, based on the standings at the HL website...although the tiebreaker appears to be "season record".  So, yeah, I'll take it.

[oklahomamick]

another exciting week of basketball.  at this point the actual standings will be more useful than these because GB is #1 due to one fewer game, etc.  But for the first time I give you the If The Season Ended Today Tournament Bracket, based on the standings at the HL website...although the tiebreaker appears to be "season record".  So, yeah, I'll take it.

Still way to early.  We have to beat Green Bay at home and Detroit on the road.  I know, I know, Detroit just lost to UIC, but Juwan Howard Jr. and company are dangerous, especially on the road.  We have done what we are supposed to, beat everyone at home. 

[HC]

Then there's that little game at CSU that could very well be a winner take all.

[LaPorteAveApostle]

Oh, I agree, but look at the compelling bracket that sets up--another UDM-OAK game, another OAK-VU game, just going by seeds...

[talksalot]

and that little game starts at 9pm central, 10pm eastern.... might be a lot of (yawn) fun...

[oklahomamick]

I don't want Oakland again.  We always get their best game, that's dangerous

I didn't see the defending champs, UWM in the bracket?

[HC]

They've been given the banhammer for this postseason...don't get the grades, don't get to play 

[LaPorteAveApostle]

forgot to flog UDM sufficiently for losing to UIC at home.

Gosh, the gap between the haves and have-nots has rarely been so clear.  What I mentioned last week still applies--the only win the bad teams have over the good is UDM vs. Oakland...

[historyman]

I didn't see the defending champs, UWM in the bracket?

Do you sit back and laugh your head off after you post these questions?


They seem like innocent questions but this is your third "you-don't-know-but-you-should-know" question?

[oklahomamick]

I didn't see the defending champs, UWM in the bracket?

Do you sit back and laugh your head off after you post these questions?


They seem like innocent questions but this is your third "you-don't-know-but-you-should-know" question?

  I was being sarcastic, it was a joke.  What were the other two questions, "I should have known?"

[a3uge]

I miss UWM. Their fans would get really upset if you referred to them as a commuter school.