Quit BITCHING about seeding

[Scersk '97]

Yeah, it was more a convenience for the spreadsheet than anything else.  I made the comment that I did more because I had a home team at every other regional, so UHN would've been the logical one at Amherst.  In fact, since I made Michigan home at GR, I should make UHN home at Amherst.  I guess I've opened up my own "can of worms."

I just like doing math now that I don't have to, you know...

[CrazyLarry]

As I recall, I don't remember you doing too much back then, either....

:-P

[Scersk '97]

Now, now, let's not bring up my "gentleman's Cs..."

And you'll never be able to find the money that I've hidden away in my secret offshore bank account!  Oh crap!  I shouldn't have mentioned the secret bank account.

PS  Don't tell the bones.

[jtwcornell91]

[Q]Scersk '97 Wrote:
Ahhahaha, but it doesn't matter!  If both teams have their KASA "adjusted" towards an "away" match but are meeting at a neutral site, then it's the same as comparing their unadjusted KASA's.[/q]

Yes, but you should not give BC, Michigan, BU or UNH home advantages in their regionals, only Minnesota.

[Scersk '97]

True, I could repost without those, like, say:

Regional     Team       KRACH KASA  Adjusted  1st Game    CBS         1st KASA    CBS KASA
West
           4 Minnesota  620.4 589.9 663.81447 0.672010399 0.375878081 0.722725857 0.437741494
           5 Cornell    592.6 590.7 524.89602 0.630358473 0.343782959 0.635639729 0.321522712
          10 Ohio State 347.5 338.6 300.87996 0.369641527 0.1539689   0.364360271 0.136846435
          13 Maine      302.8 286.6 254.67276 0.327989601 0.12637006  0.277274143 0.103889358

Midwest
           3 CC         1031  990.1 879.80286 0.822497008 0.533493632 0.820366228 0.531886572
           6 Michigan   619.7 605   537.603   0.560003615 0.246058638 0.570700877 0.253047781
          11 Wisconsin  486.9 455.1 404.40186 0.439996385 0.169690817 0.429299123 0.163137486
          14 Colgate    222.5 216.8 192.64848 0.177502992 0.050756914 0.179633772 0.051928161

East
           1 BC         642.5 611.7 543.55662 0.974562774 0.584218271 0.969428993 0.580936577
           7 N Dakota   469.1 451.7 401.38062 0.549619215 0.239539965 0.556349304 0.245407294
          12 BU         384.4 360.2 320.07372 0.450380785 0.175280302 0.443650696 0.17227012
          16 Mercyhurst 16.77 19.29 17.141094 0.025437226 0.000961463 0.030571007 0.001386009

Northeast  
           2 Denver     975.8 940.4 835.63944 0.901681759 0.649827644 0.892220114 0.643235671
           8 UHN        428.9 413.5 367.4361  0.576788596 0.204234035 0.578079128 0.206401875
           9 Harvard    314.7 301.8 268.17948 0.423211404 0.124152959 0.421920872 0.124498489
          15 Bemidji    106.4 113.6 100.94496 0.098318241 0.021785361 0.107779886 0.025863965

The differences are obvious.

[Q]CrazyLarry Wrote:
You could argue crowds for BC, BU and Michigan, but I would think UHN will also get plenty of crowd support at Amherst.  But crowd support and actual home rink are two different things.[/q]
When you compare Michigan's travel distance with CC's and Colgate's--even Wisco's--GR starts looking like a home regional for Michigan.  Same argument for BU and BC.  Of course, one could also make the same argument for UHN and Harvard, I just chose not to.  There's really no question that the latter chart is less arbitrary.

[Chief AA Bear]

Nice job with the calcs, but notwithstanding the numbers, and from actual attendance "observation' a couple seasons ago, with most of the State of New Hampshire showing up in Amhearts (like they did at the Worcester Centrum), and the poor crowd support for Harvard, I can confidently state that Amhearst WILL be like home ice for UNH.

-- dahh bear