Cornell 16th in PWR after Fri night

[calgARI '07]

I think there is like 50-50 chance that cornell finishes in the top 14 PWR if they sweep next weekend, lose in the semis, and win the consolation.  But really, just win the ECAC so we can avoid all the number crunching.

[jy3]

yes, let cornell win the ecacs. i want a repeat of last year, not the year before
there are some teams that may be hovering around 500 pwr/rpi to become or drop below consideration for tuc that may play a big part as was stated. we shall see.

[cbuckser]

[Q]calgARI '07 wrote:
I think there is like 50-50 chance that cornell finishes in the top 14 PWR if they sweep next weekend, lose in the semis, and win the consolation. But really, just win the ECAC so we can avoid all the number crunching.[/Q]
In the event that Cornell wins the Whitelaw Trophy again, sneaking to #12 in the PWR would make a big difference with NCAA tournament seeding.  If Cornell beats Clarkson, numbers will be crunched, especially after JTW sets up his You Be the Committee algorithm.

[Will]

[Q]cbuckser Wrote:

In the event that Cornell wins the Whitelaw Trophy again, sneaking to #12 in the PWR would make a big difference with NCAA tournament seeding.  If Cornell beats Clarkson, numbers will be crunched, especially after JTW sets up his You Be the Committee algorithm. [/Q]

Whoa...now I *know* we're getting ahead of ourselves.  Let's not jinx it for the team.

[nyc94]

St. Cloud is ahead of us again, presumably because Bemidji State is now a TUC (split with Niagara this weekend) and St. Cloud took two from them in February.  Their TUC record is now 9-12-2  .435

[Ken]

If you do the math you'll see that Western Michigan cannot drop from TUC even if swept this weekend.

If Brown is swept by Hahvahd then the Crimson do become TUC, but unless there are some other significant and unlikely happenings to effect Brown's Opp and Opp Opp percentages Brown stays TUC.  (for example, Brown's Opp % is currently .4694.  Even getting swept by Hahvahd increases that to about .4714, and Opp % is 50% of the RPI)

Cornell can pick up, at most, 3 comparisons (Providence, St Cloud, Mich. St.) which would get them to 14 comparisons won and a tie for 14th in the PWR with Notre Dame, who we lose to in a H2H comparsion for the 14 spot.