Hi friends, sorry I have not written for so long.

For the rest of today Sports Club Stats is turned off to protest SOPA and PIPA (learn more at Wikipedia.)

Note I sent my senator:

The internet is the goose that lays the golden eggs.
It also allows US copyright laws to be broken.
But we can not allow SOPA and PIPA to fluster that goose.
We have to sacrifice our copyright holders and change our copyright laws.
Our future is in those eggs.

And how I really feel:

Are you nuts? Don’t fuck with the Internet. It is a good thing. All the bad things you imagine about the internet are nothing, absolutely nothing, compared to how good it is. It is short term wasteful and long term futile to try and control the internet. The RIAA can kiss my ass. They remind me of the priests who got all frantic when William Tyndale first mass produced an English bible. Oh my, read a bible without going through a priest.
They burned him at the stake.

Ken

NHL fans have been very good to Sports Club Stats in March:

And thanks Kevin Hartley, Overdeck, and one other I’ve forgotten for figuring out I must be using last years tie breaking rules in time before I had too much egg on my face. (Finally fixed 2 weeks or so ago.)

Top Referrals

The Rec/Fantasy tab explains how.

Folks have added rec leagues, fantasy leagues, and these “pro” leagues:

From BigSoccer:

This is a wacky, wonderful website:

http://www.sportsclubstats.com/USA/M…/Sounders.html

If you’ve been following it for a while it is quite addicting but a bit of a roller coaster ride. Great stats, though.

Thanks David. I aim for wacky and wonderful.

I’ve added CONCACAF and CONMEBOL World Cup qualifying.

Mike gave me the idea months ago, and Alex spurred my on with an email yesterday. Thanks.

I’ll do something for the World Cup when it starts. I don’t plan on getting to the other qualifying groups this time around.

Somethings is broken. I’m off to grab some coffee and then I’ll see whats up. I sound like an addict :)

The historical graphs issue from before is fixed.

[Update: All fixed. The bad numbers this morning where if only 1 team made the playoffs instead of 4]

I’ve been improving the engines underpinnings, to the point where I unintentionally intermingled past weighted data with coin flip data. So, when you look at a team’s weighted chart some of the points are really showing 50/50 data. I probably “improved” other things too.

Things take me longer then I expect. Such is life.

USL is back running again. Thanks Ryan for spelling out what’s new the season:

Team changes: Austin Aztex are new, as are the Cleveland City Stars. Atlanta Silverbacks are on hiatus and thus, not playing. The Seattle Sounders have made the jump to MLS.

That was some wreck at Talladega

[Update, morning of April 3]
Yes.
They lost last night and the Canadiens won.
 

[Update, morning of April 2]
The Senators are still in the race.
Either that or Sports Club Stats has a bug. It still saw 2 times out of 50 million where they win a 3 way tie with the Canadiens and Sabres. They can’t miss. :)
To stay in tonight:

• The Senators need to beat the Bruins
• The Islanders need to beat the Canadiens in regulation

[end of update]
 

I see on the web they supposedly are (thanks Jon), but I’m showing them still making it 3 out of 50 million times.

Here is what has to happen:

The Senators have to win out.
The Canadiens have to lose out in regulation
The Panthers have to get 0 wins and at most 1 ot loss.
And the Sabres have to finish with 2 wins, 3 regulation losses and 2 overtime losses.

Which leads to a 3 way tie for the 8-10 seeds between the Senators, Canadiens, and Sabres.
All with 88 points and 39 wins

The next tie breaker:
If more than two clubs are tied, the higher percentage of available points earned in games among those clubs, and not including any “odd” games, shall be used to determine the standing.

There are no “odd games” to remove. They all play each of the others 6 times, 3 at home and 3 on the road:

10/10/2008 Sabres beat Canadiens 2-1 (so)
10/27/2008 Sabres lost to Senators 2-5
11/11/2008 Canadiens beat Senators 4-0
11/20/2008 Senators lost to Canadiens 2-3 (so)
11/29/2008 Canadiens beat Sabres 3-2
12/20/2008 Canadiens beat Sabres 4-3 (ot)
1/6/2009 Sabres beat Senators 4-2
1/17/2009 Senators lost to Canadiens 4-5 (so)
2/6/2009 Sabres beat Canadiens 3-2
2/7/2009 Senators beat Sabres 3-2 (so)
2/11/2009 Sabres lost to Senators 1-3
2/21/2009 Canadiens beat Senators 5-3
3/4/2009 Sabres beat Canadiens 5-1
3/7/2009 Senators beat Sabres 6-3
3/17/2009 Senators beat Sabres 4-2
3/19/2009 Senators beat Canadiens 5-4
3/28/2009 Canadiens lost to Sabres 3-4 (so)
4/6/2009 Canadiens lost to Senators ?-?

Talley those up to get:
Senators: 7 wins, 3 losses, 2 ot losses 16 points Pack your bags!
Canadiens: 6 wins, 4 losses, 2 ot losses 14 points
Sabres 5 wins, 5 losses, 2 ot losses 12 points

Now, come to think of it, I’m not exactly sure what the NHL means by “higher percentage of available points”. My code just uses average points per game. But it’s irrelevant in this case because they all had the same number of games and the same number of ot losses.

Senator win the tiebreaker and make the playoffs.
Or am I crazy?

Yesterday at 5:45 Bob had me on the show!
I was able to be myself, more manic than usual, but myself. My feet were propped on the desk, and sometimes I even remembered to breath. It was fun.

Thank you Bob and Jim.