NHL President’s Trophy glitch

April 23rd, 2013

I got this email from Shaun:

Hey, I found a small error I thought you might want to be aware of.
The simulation somehow reported a case where Pittsburgh lost all 3 games in regulation but still won the President’s Trophy. This is of course impossible since they are 3 points back of Chicago.

I attached a picture for reference.

SCS pres trophy glitch
 
This is really interesting. Thank you Shaun. A bug in my code that is triggered so infrequently. What might cause that? Off to see…

While I’ve got you, twenty thousand fellow human beings visited Sports Club Stats yesterday (the most ever). Thanks.

“We use the real NBA tiebreakers” my butt.

April 14th, 2013

Starting with the 2006-2007 season the NBA changed the tiebreakers so the 3 division winners do not automatically get the top 3 seeds. Instead they where reseeded with the top wildcard to determine seeds 1-4. The site does this part correctly.

Starting with the 2008-2009 (?) season they added the stipulation that when reseeding the top 4, a division winner always takes precedence over the wildcard with the same record. I don’t do this. And it affects the current standings.

Jeremy Halperin pointed this out today (thanks Jeremy). I’m working on fixing it, more to follow.
Update:  I believe it is fixed.
Here are the 4 affected teams, using the 50/50 version:
Fixed NBA Tiebreakers

I messed up the NFL odds.

December 13th, 2012

JP clued me in yesterday that for many of the NFL games the simulation had the wrong team as the home team.  That means it was giving the wrong team home field advantage.   It’s fixed now, but my error caused the site to show numbers up to 11 percentage points off:

Mea Culpa

I am sorry,

Ken

Spring pledge drive and march traffic

April 3rd, 2012

So far ninety-nine of you donated from one to one hundred dollars, for a total of $1,200.
Thank you. It feels good knowing you think this place is worth supporting.
(don’t worry, the banner ad will go into the vault soon)

 

March traffic

Again, thanks for telling your friends about this joint.

People Visits
March 2012 109,120 361,976 (biggest month ever)
March 2011 81,567 296,474
March 2010 54,501 169,260
March 2009 44,937 142,167
March 2008 40,337 122,654
March 2007 ? ? (old web host, lost logs)
March 2006 1 ? (that 1 would be me, here is what we looked like back then)
 
 
Top pages March 2012 Views
NHL 240,102
Home 84,579
NHL East 45,946
NHL West 40,673
Sabres 39,477
Maple Leafs 34,359
Flames 30,708
Jets 26,782
Kings 24,252
Senators 23,819
Capitals 20,677
 
 
Top referrals March 2012
Google
Grantland
Puck Daddy and some Yahoo! search
HFBoards
Facebook
Bing
Twitter
blog.mapleleafs.com
HockeyBuzz.com
NHL.com
thestar.com
LA Kings Insider
SI Red Light
NBC Sports ProHockeyTalk
SaintsWeb
LetsGoWings.com
The Bumper Boards
OilFans.com
LetsGoPens.com
NHL TrueStandings
dans les coulisses
The Globe and Mail
stltoday.com
The Something Awful Forums
Fans Online
SabreSFans.com
The Pensblog
Charlton Life
Penguins Insider
SPHB
Jatkoajan keskustelupalsta
Calgarypuck
MercuryNews.com
wenxuecity.com
cardiffcity.com
Bristol City Fans’ Forum
Silver Seven
7amkickoff
Twikle
canada.com
thezone:mk
Pension Plan Puppets
The 300 Level
theScore Backhand Shelf
NHLBQ
sportsnet.ca
BoltProspects
Blazer’s Edge
Japers’ Rink
FARK.com
Die By The Blade
football365.com
LongHanded
Let’s Go Blues
L.G.K.
forum ice
Jets Hockey Forum
Litter Box Cats
eishockeyforum.com
Pacific Haxball League
Winnipeg Free Press
Norfolk Admirals Fan Website
The Buffalo Range
Battle of California
A Beautiful Numbers Game
Mile High Hockey
sabre noise
The Vancouver Sun
SabreSpace
The Kings Round Table
Canes Country
The Province
The Hockey Writers
CSNBayArea
EA Forums
Maple Leafs Hot Stove
njdevs.com
CBS Sports Eye on Hockey
The Dallas Morning News
Calgary Sun
Buffalo News
SportingNews
The Miami Herald
The Wall Street Journal
 

Finally

Thanks everyone for adding so many new leagues,
(and Adam for sending in real time updates!)

 

Thank you

April 3rd, 2011

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

People Visits
March 2011 81,567 296,474 (biggest month ever)
March 2010 54,501 169,260
March 2009 44,937 142,167
March 2008 40,337 122,654
March 2007 ? ? (old web host, lost logs)
March 2006 1 ? (that 1 would be me, here is what we looked like back then)
 

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 pages Views
NHL 152,855
Home 55,603
Maple Leafs 47,745
Flames 40,799
NHL West 31,522
NHL East 30,876
Devils 26,975
Sabres 23,942
Kings 17,401
Canadiens 16,046
Hurricanes 15,278
Blackhawks 13,070
 

Top Referrals

google
facebook.com
hfboards.com
yahoo!
pensionplanpuppets.com
calgarypuck.com
bing
secondcityhockey.com
stumbleupon
canucks.com
twitter.com
hockeybuzz.com
thepensblog.com
blazersedge.com
reddit.com
nhl.com
go.com
s15.zetaboards.com
lakingsinsider.com
nucksmisconduct.com
theglobeandmail.com
windows live
saintsweb.co.uk
lakersground.net
sabresfans70.proboards.com
bbs.clutchfans.net
beyond.ca
canescountry.com
japersrink.com
defendingbigd.com
letsgopens.com
hockeyinsideout.com
fourhabsfans.blogspot.com
habfans.com
sports.nationalpost.com
sabrespace.com
thestar.blogs.com
mail.yahoo.com
nbadreams.net
oilfans.com
sportsnet.ca
kuklaskorner.com
nhltruestandings
inlouwetrust.com
ontheforecheck.com
northjersey.com
nj.com
somethingawful.com
gamefaqs.com
realgm.com
derstandard.at
nhl.ru
nfluk.com
outsidethegarden.com
adamveenendaal.com
lionsinwinter.ca
diebytheblade.com
battleofcali.com
mapleleafshotstove.com
buffalobills.com
playoffpush.blogspot.com
basketball.ru
bleacherreport.com
canada.com
darkbluejacket.blogspot.com
blueshirtsunited.com
slapshot.blogs.nytimes.com

Add leagues to this joint

February 18th, 2010

The Rec/Fantasy tab explains how.

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

Author League Season Sport Country
Jonatan Schroeder FIFA World Cup 2010 Soccer World Cup
Ross Houston USL Second Division 2009 Soccer USA
Akif Burak Tosun Turkcell Süper Lig 2009-2010 Soccer Turkey
Akif Burak Tosun Turkcell Süper Lig 2008-2009 Soccer Turkey
Akif Burak Tosun Turkcell Süper Lig 2007-2008 Soccer Turkey
Henry Ong S.League 2009 Soccer Singapore
Henry Ong S.League 2008 Soccer Singapore
Henry Ong S.League 2007 Soccer Singapore
Henry Ong S.League 2006 Soccer Singapore
Jonatan Schroeder Campeonato Brasileiro – Série B 2009 Soccer Brazil
Jonatan Schroeder Campeonato Brasileiro – Série A 2009 Soccer Brazil
Henry Ong A-League 2009-2010 Soccer Australia
Scott Shaner NLL 2010 Lacrosse USA
Brenden Jeziorski Olympic Hockey 2010 Hockey International
Kevin Young AHL 2009 Hockey USA
Anonymous SDAHA Varsity 2009-2010 Hockey USA
Juris KHL 2010 Hockey Russia
Jonatan Schroeder Canada West Universities Athletic Association 2009 Hockey Canada
Gary Folk CFL 2010 Football Canada
Jordan Munns CFL 2009 Football Canada
Andrew Dunbar Canadian Olympic Curling Trials 2010 Curling Canada
James C. Taylor Premier Basketball League 2010 Basketball North America

a wacky, wonderful website…

August 17th, 2009

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.

World Cup qualifying

August 9th, 2009

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.

Ignore the baseball numbers today

June 27th, 2009

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 hosed up the historical “odds in” data

May 30th, 2009

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.