Friday, February 23, 2007
Oilers Game Day - Hope Springs . . .
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Season Record: 29-26-6 | Season Record: 39-16-6 |
I have very little to say about tonight's game (the Oil will win obviously); but I wanted to implore everyone to cool their jets. The Oil end their season with a 6 game roadie, culminating in a massive BofA. This guarantees them a playoff spot.
Look, the Hockey Gods aren't fools. They know that a season ending BofA must be meaningful in order that the Universe keeps on trucking. As such, I see no reason to believe that they won't rig the remainder of the regular season to ensure that the final game is a Ring-a-Ding-Dong-Dandy.
Here are some irrelevant data points on how it looks with 21 games remaining
- 10 home (4 game stretch, 6 game stretch)
- 11 road (2 games remaining in 7 game stretch, 3 game stretch, 6 game stretch to end the season)
- 14 games vs teams above us in today's standings
- 7 games vs teams below us in today's standings (including 2 vs Colorado)
- 5 games remaining vs Minni
- Only 3 back to back games (including tonight) and one is vs the hapless Kings
If you want to prove it to yourself, I'm throwing the Ole Playoff Predictor up early this year. Fiddle around with the results of future games all you want, it always comes up roses for the Oil.
BTW, I tried to put this thing up on google spreadsheets, but couldn't figure out how to let everyone download it from there -- so you will just have to trust me that it doesn't contain any malicious code. If anyone is better at google spreadsheets than I am, give 'er hell.
As for tonight's game.
4-2 Oil. Hemsky, Horcoff, Smyth, Hemsky
***Andy Early Morning Update*** I have a post that I just finished (5 A.M.), but it's insanely long, so I placed it below this one. Check 'er out. GOIL!
Comments:
Go through it game by game, incredibly entertaining way to waste an hour on a Friday afternoon.
By my super scientific, ultra objective methods, the Oil leapfrog the Lames to finish in 7th with 95 points
Thanks for posting this again Sac. Google Doc & Spreads doesn't really work that nice for document distribution, but might be nice if you wanted 40 people to each record their "predictions for each game."
Vic had been asking a bunch of commenters to track "scoring chances and the centers that start and kill them." Google spreads would be a good fit for such a thing.
Vic had been asking a bunch of commenters to track "scoring chances and the centers that start and kill them." Google spreads would be a good fit for such a thing.
That's a great idea. It would also be a good place for open-source stats info in general, no?
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Go through it game by game, incredibly entertaining way to waste an hour on a Friday afternoon.
By my super scientific, ultra objective methods, the Oil leapfrog the Lames to finish in 7th with 95 points
Thanks for posting this again Sac. Google Doc & Spreads doesn't really work that nice for document distribution, but might be nice if you wanted 40 people to each record their "predictions for each game."
Vic had been asking a bunch of commenters to track "scoring chances and the centers that start and kill them." Google spreads would be a good fit for such a thing.
Vic had been asking a bunch of commenters to track "scoring chances and the centers that start and kill them." Google spreads would be a good fit for such a thing.
That's a great idea. It would also be a good place for open-source stats info in general, no?
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