Polls 2/21

[jy3]

usa today, will attempt preformatting

USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Men's College Hockey Poll
February 21, 2005

   Team                           Pts (1st) Last  Record  Wks In Poll
 1 Colorado College                461 (10)   3   25-6-3   21
 2 University of Denver            460 (10)   2   22-7-2   21
 3 Cornell University              453 (12)   4   20-4-3   19
 4 University of Michigan          407 (2)    6   24-7-3   21
 5 Boston College                  367        1   19-6-5   21
 6 University of Wisconsin         352        5   21-9-2   21
 7 University of New Hampshire     320        8   22-7-3   21
 8 The Ohio State University       253        7   23-8-3   19
 9 Univ. of Massachusetts Lowell   216       13   19-7-4    9
10 Boston University               204       11  20-10-2   13
11 Harvard University              169        9   17-7-2   10
12 University of Minnesota         157       10  20-12-1   21
13 Colgate University              141       12   22-8-2   16
14 University of Maine              57       14  16-10-6   20
15 Northern Michigan University     27       NR   16-9-7    4

Others receiving votes: University of North Dakota 23, 
University of Nebraska Omaha 8, Dartmouth College 2, 
University of Vermont 2, College of the Holy Cross 1.

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[jy3]

it worked!
nice

[Faithful07]

CC loses and moves up to #1? How is that fair?

[finchphil]

Interesting that the team with the most first place votes, Cornell (12), ends up third in the poll.  Must be a lot of volatility at the top!

[Rosey]

Note that Cornell got the most first place votes in the USA Today poll.  I have to admit it's nice when I can say to my coworkers that Cornell is the "top ranked team in the country" when they see me strolling around on Fridays with my jersey on, but honestly: how many of you are confident that Cornell is really the first or third best team in the country?  I haven't seen enough out-of-conference play to know! **]

Kyle

[RichH]

[Q]Faithful07 Wrote:

 CC loses and moves up to #1? How is that fair?[/q]

Look at the total points.  Positions 1-2 are only one voting point apart, and 1-3 are eight voting points apart.

[jeh25]

[Q]Posted by ganderson on February 21, 2005 05:02PM (---.drama.yale.edu)


 Yeah, yeah, my bad.  [/q]

Adam, Ivy League, huh?
:-P ::twitch:: ;-)

[jeh25]

[Q]jy3 Wrote:

 [Q2]Chris 02 Wrote:

 It's called using

Preformatting



Edited 2 times. Last edit at 02/21/05 05:23PM by Chris 02.[/Q]
yes, using the [ ] pre and /pre tags. but i cant get it to work for some reason. [/q]

And they let him prescribe drugs! Scary, eh?

[billhoward]

Probably a lot of us who'd rather play Boston College again than Michigan State.

[djs]

[Q]finchphil Wrote:

 Interesting that the team with the most first place votes, Cornell (12), ends up third in the poll.  Must be a lot of volatility at the top![/q]

It seems from the USA Today poll that there are a bunch of people really high on Cornell (those 12 first place votes) and a bunch of people who think we're not top four material.

My inner Cornell geek tells me that 483 total points minus 15 times 12 first place votes leaves 273 points for the other 14 votes.

273/14 is about 11.4 points/vote.

So that's an average rank of 3.6 for those 22 votes.

Which, according to alot of people even here, is a more likely representation of where we stand.

Of course, you can always blame the WCHA bias     :-P

[billhoward]

Probably a bunch of western voters put Cornell way down, while the easterners didn't stick it to CC or Denver. Thus Cornell getting lots of #1 votes but not being in first overall.

Our getting all those #1 votes is going to be extra ammo for St. Lawrence and Clarkson this coming weekend. That and a chance to mess up the nation's longest unbeaten record. Fortunately, we all know McKee and the Cornell D are going to post a pair of shu--

... hey, what happened, all of a sudden my monitor went dim just as I was typing "shu-" ... sheesh, there it goes again. It's as if some force field was trying to take control of the PC.

[CowbellGuy]

Are you sure you're not just blacking out from all the aforementioned wine?

[jeh25]

[Q]CowbellGuy Wrote:

 Are you sure you're not just blacking out from all the aforementioned wine?[/q]

I figured it was all the windows spyware....

[jkahn]

[Q]djs wrote:
It seems from the USA Today poll that there are a bunch of people really high on Cornell (those 12 first place votes) and a bunch of people who think we're not top four material.

My inner Cornell geek tells me that 483 total points minus 15 times 12 first place votes leaves 273 points for the other 14 votes.

273/14 is about 11.4 points/vote.[/q]
It's actually 453-15x12, but since the 273 answer is correct, I assume that's a typo.
Also, it's 22 other votes, not 14 (although it looks like you divided by 24), so 273/22 = 12.4
[q]djs wrote:
273/14 is about 11.4 points/vote.
So that's an average rank of 3.6 for those 22 votes. [/q]
Actually, 11.4 points/ vote would be an average rank is 4.6. However, since the actual result is 12.4 points/vote, the 3.6 average for the 22 votes is correct.