Maximizing Pairwise

Currently, we lose 5 pairwise comparisons: BU, UNH, Maine, Mich, and MSU

So, what - as far as i can tell - has to happen to make things as positive as possible:

ECAC final 5: Cornell, Clarkson, RPI, Colgate, Brown

Brown beats Colgate in play-in

Cornell Beats Brown, then Clarkson/RPI winner.

This makes Cornell 9-3 against TUCs, since Dartmouth falls out.


UNH loses to BU in HE tournament, giving Cornell that pairwise win, since our Common Opponents and TUC beat UNH.

root for Maine, Mich, and Mich St. to choke in the first round of their respective tournaments, because we need to beat them in RPI to win our pairwise (tiebreaker) with each of them.

Forget about beating BU...especially because we need them to beat UNH.


If all goes perfectly, we could end up winning all pairwise except BU....and then waltz into a bye.....

Edit: while figuring this out, we lost pairwise to Minn. but that will reverse if Dartmouth goes down and our TUC goes back to beating Minn.

It seems that Cornell's pairwise dropped from 7 to 9 after beating Union comma New York, because Union became a sub .500 team, so 2 of Cornell's wins over .500 or better teams disappeared. This is despite Union being a plus 500 team, because 2 of Union's wins are not considered, I guess against Findlay of the CHA? Someone please comment.

same with niagara 2nite i think too.

ps
for onion
Fri 01/18/2002 T 4 Findlay (nc) 4 ot Box Recap 7:00 ET
Sat 01/19/2002 W 9 Findlay (nc) 2 Box Recap 7:00 ET
for niagara
Fri 10/26/2001 W 4 @ Findlay 1 Box Recap 7:05 ET
Sat 10/27/2001 W 6 @ Findlay 3 Box 7:05 ET