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muffler dragon
Bien. Bien chiludo.
something something reactionary versus proactive something something
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So I've read this post like twenty times and maybe I'm stupid, but what the hell does this even mean? Does this mean if another B1G game got cancelled this week we could have scheduled someone else to play other than Maryland?
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Yes, in the same way Cal and UCLA are playing tomorrow after they both had games with other opponents cancelled today.
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I know they would tap out but I can’t help enjoy the thought of OSU punching tsuns dance card 3-4 times this year under this rule.
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This week’s Wiscy at NW’ern game should decide the west. If NW’ern can win it, they’ll be 5-0 with games left at Sparty, at Minny, and home against Illinois. They’d have to lose 2 of those 3 to not clinch the West.
If Wiscy wins, they’ll probably just need to not have cancellations against Minny, Indiana, and at Iowa. They’d also have to lose 2 of 3 to not clinch, since the B1G has stated that a 5-1 team with a head-to-head win over a 7-1 team will go to the CCG.
If Wiscy wins, they’ll probably just need to not have cancellations against Minny, Indiana, and at Iowa. They’d also have to lose 2 of 3 to not clinch, since the B1G has stated that a 5-1 team with a head-to-head win over a 7-1 team will go to the CCG.
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Poe McKnoe
Head Coach
Remember when Kevin Warren and the Big Ten decided to cancel the football season during warm weather when the coronavirus was trending lower only to reinstate the season later on so that the meat of the schedule would be played during cold weather which all experts predicted the coronavirus would get worse?
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JXC
17-4 since 2001
So, with Northwestern looking suspect, even if they win they may lost at some point.
Indiana plays Wisconsin next week. Let’s say Wisconsin should and does win that game.
If we do finish 5-0 we would play 4-1 Wisconsin. We would be the top two ranked teams in conference most likely.
Indiana and Northwestern would be ranked, but lower, but play in Indy.
Everyone would look at that OSU v Wisconsin game and say the winner of that game is the best in the B1G. And if we win that, at 6-0 we would clearly be the best team in conference. And I think it would be very hard to keep us out. So even if we can’t play next week, I think the season goals are still very much alive.
Indiana plays Wisconsin next week. Let’s say Wisconsin should and does win that game.
If we do finish 5-0 we would play 4-1 Wisconsin. We would be the top two ranked teams in conference most likely.
Indiana and Northwestern would be ranked, but lower, but play in Indy.
Everyone would look at that OSU v Wisconsin game and say the winner of that game is the best in the B1G. And if we win that, at 6-0 we would clearly be the best team in conference. And I think it would be very hard to keep us out. So even if we can’t play next week, I think the season goals are still very much alive.
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would be a hell of a lot easier if the B1G would just say, "we changed our minds on the minimum games thing" and actually help it's best team compete on the national scene for once.
Seniors deserve to have their 4th straight B1G title be official
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Nothing about this season seems official.
But the seniors have earned the right to play for the championship
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So here’s how the idiotic B1G rule about being eligible for the CCG whether a team plays 5 or 6 games works:
If a team plays 6 games, they are eligible, period. And for the ‘less than 6’ part of the rule to NOT apply, the league average could be anywhere between 5.57 and 7.71 (that’s the highest possible average if the only 2 games that were cancelled involved that team). So that means if your team has two games cancelled, it’s OK if there are anywhere between 0 and 15 games involving other teams cancelled. 15 other games cancelled would make the league average 5.57, which rounds up to 6, so the ‘less than 6’ part of the rule doesn’t apply.
But if a team only plays 5 games, they need to have 15 other games cancelled, in addition to their 3 games, in order for the league’s average to drop to 5.43, which rounds down to 5, and would apparently allow a team with either 3 or 4 or 5 games to be eligible, since 3 is within 2 of the average rounded down to 5. So with a league total of 17 or fewer games cancelled, a team must have played 6 to be eligible. But if an 18th game is cancelled, a team would only need 3 games to be eligible. So the 18th cancellation basically determines everything.
Who in the hell decided that was reasonable? Why not just make the rule a simple ‘a team must play within 2 games of the league average to be eligible’ regardless of rounding? If that were the case, a team with 5 games would only need to have 4 other games besides their own to be cancelled to be eligible. If the average of teams not including the team in question were used, instead of the overall average, it would require 5 other games to be cancelled, making the average for the other 13 teams an even 7.0.
Using the rounding is idiotic. And creating the ‘less than an average of 6 games overall’ portion of the rule was unnecessary.
In chart form, here’s what the rule effectively means:
# of B1G games cancelled .. Minimum games to make CCG
00 through 17 ................... 6
18 through 24 ................... 3
25 through 31 ................... 2
32 through 55 ................... 1
56 (entire schedule) ........... 0
Would anybody have agreed to this if they saw this chart ahead of time?
If a team plays 6 games, they are eligible, period. And for the ‘less than 6’ part of the rule to NOT apply, the league average could be anywhere between 5.57 and 7.71 (that’s the highest possible average if the only 2 games that were cancelled involved that team). So that means if your team has two games cancelled, it’s OK if there are anywhere between 0 and 15 games involving other teams cancelled. 15 other games cancelled would make the league average 5.57, which rounds up to 6, so the ‘less than 6’ part of the rule doesn’t apply.
But if a team only plays 5 games, they need to have 15 other games cancelled, in addition to their 3 games, in order for the league’s average to drop to 5.43, which rounds down to 5, and would apparently allow a team with either 3 or 4 or 5 games to be eligible, since 3 is within 2 of the average rounded down to 5. So with a league total of 17 or fewer games cancelled, a team must have played 6 to be eligible. But if an 18th game is cancelled, a team would only need 3 games to be eligible. So the 18th cancellation basically determines everything.
Who in the hell decided that was reasonable? Why not just make the rule a simple ‘a team must play within 2 games of the league average to be eligible’ regardless of rounding? If that were the case, a team with 5 games would only need to have 4 other games besides their own to be cancelled to be eligible. If the average of teams not including the team in question were used, instead of the overall average, it would require 5 other games to be cancelled, making the average for the other 13 teams an even 7.0.
Using the rounding is idiotic. And creating the ‘less than an average of 6 games overall’ portion of the rule was unnecessary.
In chart form, here’s what the rule effectively means:
# of B1G games cancelled .. Minimum games to make CCG
00 through 17 ................... 6
18 through 24 ................... 3
25 through 31 ................... 2
32 through 55 ................... 1
56 (entire schedule) ........... 0
Would anybody have agreed to this if they saw this chart ahead of time?
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