#24 – Not Sure If Serious or Playing Dumba

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Re: Ask Meme

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Oh I absolutely agree. I just can't help wondering what's keeping her with him.

Re: Ask Meme

[(Anonymous)]

https://twitter.com/ECHL/status/735995614891147264?s=09 Maybe this? I know this is why like Asuchak. /Obvious nonny

Re: Ask Meme

[(Anonymous)]

Hard to say from the outside. Love, habit, money, status, phenomenal oral skills. Your guess is as good as mine. He sounds like a tool, though. Bad times are when you should lean on your partner for support. If his instinct is to blame her then hopefully she gets herself the hell out of there.

Re: Fandom Goggles

[(Anonymous)]

I too live in hope of that kinkmeme fill being finished because ... yes. Yes. Yes.

Re: Fic discussion

[(Anonymous)]

I liked this more than I thought I would given I don't really care about Sheary.

Re: Ask Meme

[(Anonymous)]

Players I like outside my two teams (off the top of my head):
Tomas Hertl
Roberto Luongo
Dougie Hamilton
Justin Williams
Alex Galchenyuk
Mike Richards
David Perron
Robert Bortuzzo

Players I dislike:
James Neal
Brandon Dubinsky
Zac Rinaldo
Tom Wilson
Patrick Sharp
Jonathan Drouin
Taylor Hall
Jamie Benn

The players I like are either weirdly charming, were traded from my team, or have been done wrong in some way. The players I dislike are mostly because of their play or because I don't like their face, possibly through no fault of their own.

Also, can we add coaches? Because I have personal grudges against Torts, Trotz, and Vigneault, and Roy and Therrien seem like total jerks in general, even outside Roy's DV charges.

Re: Ask Meme

[(Anonymous)]

I honestly dislike all coaches and I'm not too sure why lol. Some I outright hate though (Therrien.........)

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I kind of want fic now, except I don't really want fic about anyone's actual kids. I guess I want trade fic with fictional kids? IDK. But the logistics sound interesting.

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

[(Anonymous)]

I believe at least two of the models for last round didn't account for the Stamkos and Stralman injuries, so I wouldn't be surprised if these don't account for Penguins injuries.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

DA
I feel like Marycontraire's Brioux fic best fits this, from what I've seen in fandom, though she def. used Briere's RL kids as characters. Still, the fic where they're in Germany is probably most what you're looking for.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

When someone comes to the venting thread and says "I'm annoyed by people doing X," does that not imply those people shouldn't do X? Or have I been reading this thread all this time?

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

NA

Not really? I'm frequently annoyed by shit and want it to go away or out of places where I can see it, while simultaneously recognizing that people can do whatever the fuck they want and not actually wanting to become grand poobah. I mean, to use a non-fandom example, I'm annoyed how many sandwiches include mayo, because I hate mayo. That doesn't mean I don't recognize lots of people love mayo and would be sad if it was gone. It just means that I wish it was easier for me, personally, to get a sandwich sans mayo.

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

[(Anonymous)]

They're all pretty close, though. Only one even goes over a 60% chance. Given how unpredictable hockey can be - just in this playoffs I know my team lost games we dominated and won games where the other time had us on the ropes - it looks like it's anyone's series. Exciting! Stressful. Exciting!

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

[(Anonymous)]

I know @IneffectiveMath's model only uses regular season data, but is sensitive to roster changes, at least for goalies. So his model would have reflected Vasilevskiy starting, and Stamkos's absence would have been baked in, since he'd been gone for a while before the season ended, right? I have no idea whether that model accounts for Schultz instead of Daley or whatever, though.

And MoneyPuck's model (I think?) uses playoff data as well, but IDK if roster changes are taken into account.

I haven't looked close enough into any of the others, although there have been several where I've tried and couldn't find documentation anywhere. I had to see several of omgitsdomi's charts before I could even figure out the difference between the purple bracket and the orange bracket (one gives a certain weight to expert opinion aka the eye test).

Re: Fandom Goggles

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah this definitely looks like they are taking Johnny out to dinner before taking him home to wreck him

Re: Fandom Goggles

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT
I'm not saying they used a bow tie as a gag, but ...

Re: Fandom Goggles

[(Anonymous)]

TIL Matt Murray is functionally fluent in French due to being in an immersion program all the way through 11th grade, and now my shippy Murray/Fleury heart grew three sizes.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

na

just speaking for myself, not necessarily. Sometimes I just want to commiserate about finding something annoying.

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

[(Anonymous)]

it looks like it's anyone's series.

Yep! I'm not sure a 55% chance of winning means a hill of beans in a sample size this small. Or, well, it means an even smaller hill of beans than a 65% chance of winning.

I kind of wish I didn't have a rooting interest in one of these teams, because man is this going to be some fun hockey for neutral bystanders. I also hope to have fun, but the stressed-out kind.

Re: Fandom Goggles

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't ship it before, but now I kinda do.

Re: Fandom Goggles

[(Anonymous)]

When they were both out that first couple of games against NYR and hanging out up in the box together, I'm so curious whether they were speaking French or English.

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, even hardcore sabermetricians don't think predictive modeling means anything in the playoffs. How many games constitutes a representative sample is a pretty big question, and I like that my favorite baseball podcast defined knowing when stats stabilize as when Mike Trout is at the top of various leaderboards.

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Lol, that's a pretty good description. Maybe the same thing in hockey is when Ovechkin has wrapped up the Rocket Richard.

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Both team goalie are going to get lit up.

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

[(Anonymous)]

I actually think it'd be interesting to look at how many games (and in what months, esp. in baseball where weather has a lot more of an effect) constitute the best model of the entire season, but that's a pretty complex question.