No more "Bonus" points
Posted by Rita
No more "Bonus" points
Posted by: Rita (---.agry.purdue.edu)
Date: July 12, 2007 12:55PM
The men's ice hockey committee has voted to do away with the "bonus points" awarded for road wins.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/12/2007 12:56PM by Rita.
Re: No more "Bonus" points
Posted by: Trotsky (---.raytheon.com)
Date: July 12, 2007 05:47PM
Nice to see them giving the Olympic sheets the finger.
If they really wanted to encourage the big programs to go on the road, they would:
(1) factor a weight for venue directly into strength of schedule for ALL games -- say, 1.1x for a road win (or home loss) and .9x (or whatever the reciprocal is -- .8x?) for a road loss (or home win)
(2) impose a simple rule for "neutral site" NC games. E.g., if one school is within 100 miles of the site and the other is not, then it's a home game; if neither or both are, then it's a neutral site game. I dunno what this would do to the GLI, but it would work for Estero and the Beanpot. For teams that want to move a home game to a nearby NHL rink to collect the gate, I'm not sympathetic, it's still a home game unless they're playing a local opponent.
If they really wanted to encourage the big programs to go on the road, they would:
(1) factor a weight for venue directly into strength of schedule for ALL games -- say, 1.1x for a road win (or home loss) and .9x (or whatever the reciprocal is -- .8x?) for a road loss (or home win)
(2) impose a simple rule for "neutral site" NC games. E.g., if one school is within 100 miles of the site and the other is not, then it's a home game; if neither or both are, then it's a neutral site game. I dunno what this would do to the GLI, but it would work for Estero and the Beanpot. For teams that want to move a home game to a nearby NHL rink to collect the gate, I'm not sympathetic, it's still a home game unless they're playing a local opponent.
Re: No more "Bonus" points
Posted by: Jim Hyla (---.twcny.res.rr.com)
Date: July 13, 2007 11:05AM
Now if they would only ditch Olympic ice for all NCAA tourney games we could really make Minn mad.
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