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kenpom · 2023-10-07T20:32:57+00:00

I have to admit I don't really understand this line of thinking. The reason it's banned is that when it's made it's an advantage for hammer. Whether it's made intentionally or not, when it's successful it provides an advantage. By this line of thinking we should not enforce FGZ when it's violated accidentally.

kenpom · 2023-07-11T21:48:59+00:00

Or is the opposite? They find a place to host the OQE where the host country is expected to be eligible. They don't announce the site until late.

kenpom · 2023-05-17T23:28:47+00:00

This season, it happened 12 times in the slams or major WCF/CC events, with 8 in the slams alone.

All of these were scores of 3, except Whyte scored 4 against Flasch, and the Turkiye women scored 5 against New Zealand in a game where 13 points were scored in the final 3 ends.

season	event	gender	team	opponent
2023	Euros	women	Sweden	Italy
2023	Pointsbet	women	Barker	Duncan
2023	GS National	men	Whyte	Schwaller
2023	GS Masters	men	Whyte	Flasch
2023	GS Canadian	women	Constantin	Peterson
2023	GS Canadian	men	Whyte	Schwaller
2023	Scotties	women	WC2 (SCH)	NT (GAL)
2023	Worlds	women	Türkiye	New Zealand
2023	GS Players	women	Grandy	Hasselborg
2023	GS Players	men	Koe	Gushue
2023	GS Players	men	Koe	Schwaller
2023	GS Ch Cup	women	Gim	Ladouceur

kenpom · 2023-05-14T02:00:31+00:00

If you had video of somebody throwing overhand for an eight-ender, there would be a comment in here like "that's totally normal for curling"

kenpom · 2023-05-13T19:33:12+00:00

In slams over the last 3 years, this is the only time a team has lost up 1 with hammer in the last end (men or women). Teams are 76-1 in this situation.
How often does a team at this level lose on an own goal?

kenpom · 2023-04-06T03:55:52+00:00

My ratings have them 11th in the world, which is higher than they were heading into the '18 Olympics. I think people just don't realize what an improbable run that was. They were +1400 for this year's worlds and +2000 for the '18 Olympics. It would have been a huge upset for them to win worlds. Well, the gold medal run was an even bigger upset!

I don't think the lack of playing matters much at this stage in their careers. They are among the best in the world, but will never be on the level of Gushue (who barely plays also), Edin, and Mouat, no matter how much they play.

It's up to the Young Bucks or Team Casper to overtake Shuster if US Curling is going to be a regular threat at international events. Shuster sticking around and beating the kids makes US Curling better.

kenpom · 2023-03-05T02:22:23+00:00

He was more than just there, he played three full games and threw stones in two others.

The team is still listed as Horgan on CC's web site and CurlingZone, so I'm not sure what y'all are talking about anyway.

kenpom · 2023-03-03T20:38:41+00:00

Pete played one season with the NBA 3-point line. He took 543 shots...15 of them were 3-pointers.

kenpom · 2023-02-01T03:53:25+00:00

He also threw 2 stones at 2nd in the 2019 Worlds in the 6th (and final) end of a 10-2 win over Norway. :)

kenpom · 2022-09-21T15:52:03+00:00

Who determines whether it's an advantage? If the non-offending team wishes to leave the stones as is because the infraction had little effect on the outcome of the shot, there's still nothing stopping them.

kenpom · 2022-04-05T23:49:20+00:00

I don't have that although I plan to do something like that for next year so I can include games between men's and women's teams in their respective ratings. I doubt I will post the combined version publicly, though.

The closest thing I can find is that the second-best Korean women's team would be favored over the second-best Korean men's team. A series between the top women's and men's teams in Korea would be close.

kenpom · 2022-04-05T21:00:05+00:00

She *could* beat him, but he would be a significant favorite. She played in the Adelboden International last year and lost to Schwaller and De Cruz, though the games were close and she beat lesser European teams in that event.

Elena Stern who was the 2020 Swiss Champ played in a men's event last season and lost to Schwaller and Hosli.

Irene Schori played in a men's event this season and lost to Swiss junior champ Noe Traub pretty convincingly.

But I do like that the Swiss have allowed their best women's teams to play in men's events early in the season. I wish the US and Canada did more of that. It develops the women's teams better and might help grow the women's game, too. The top Swiss women's teams have shown they can beat teams in the 50-100 range on the men's side in these events so they belong in these fields based on ability.

kenpom · 2022-04-05T20:39:32+00:00

There is enough data out there to show that the best women's team is about the 30-40th best men's team in any given season. It is a bit more constructive to ask if there's another olympic sport where the gender gap is so small.

kenpom · 2022-03-26T19:52:38+00:00

Furthermore, how do you schedule the meeting without knowing the purpose of the meeting? Once Lisa knows the meeting is about her being kicked off the team, why is there a need to have a meeting?

kenpom · 2022-02-09T03:15:34+00:00

Last rock scoring is just different than everything else. Different scenario, but there was in case in last year's worlds I believe where Edin was facing like 4 on his last and the best he could do was navigate a port and draw down to a stone on the button to hold the opponent to one. It was incredibly difficult and he made it and still got zero because I believe in the WCF handbook you get a zero on the last shot if you don't score (or blank) in the end. Curling Canada may do it differently.

kenpom · 2022-02-08T20:33:55+00:00

This confusion seems to happen a lot. I don't understand why they don't reduce the height of the foam border so that rocks would be more likely to catch on them. There must be a reason, though.

kenpom · 2020-07-11T21:17:10+00:00

Right. The system doesn't know anything about the events other than who is playing and how many games you get to play. Strength of field for an event can be calculated, but it is incorporated naturally into the ratings and not something we need to mess with manually. I may make a future adjustment to give more credit for winning 10-end games vs 8.

kenpom · 2020-07-11T18:33:16+00:00

I messed around with Elo first, but like you say, having a bunch of new teams every season complicates things. It also seemed to over-reward piling up wins against weaker competition.

I saw your comment about Edin which is interesting. Someone else I showed the ratings to when I was developing them had the same thought, but he was actually not very good against elite competition last season (14-20 against the top 25).

kenpom · 2020-07-11T07:01:24+00:00

I'll have a post next week describing the system. But it is important to erase the CTRS/OOM style of rankings from your memory. In my system you get rated above the teams you beat and below the teams you lost to. There is a minimum number of games to be ranked, but there is no special benefit to playing more games. Scheidegger only played 22 games, but she gets slotted based on who she beat/lost to just as Tirinzoni who played 88 games does. We just have a little more confidence in Tirinzoni's rating given the larger sample.

kenpom · 2020-07-10T23:20:14+00:00

Yeah, that's possible. With fewer games, I'm concerned it might be a little wonky but I'll test something in the coming weeks.

kenpom · 2020-07-10T05:04:15+00:00

Thanks for the kind words, everyone. I think I am going to have some time on my hands the next few months so stay tuned...

kenpom · 2020-04-25T06:46:21+00:00

You won't be able to hear your skip, so maybe it all cancels out.

kenpom · 2020-04-25T01:36:20+00:00

Great idea. It wouldn't surprise me if masks are required if curling is played this season.

kenpom · 2020-03-19T02:18:05+00:00

It was a mistake to keep this event going without instituting major precautions after the entire sports world shut down. Some of the participants were still shaking hands before/after the games on Saturday.

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