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[CrazyLarry]

Record in last 20 (or 16) is a terrible criteria.  Those games are exclusively conference, except the Beanpot.  Maybe 20 gets you back to the holiday tourneys for some teams.  With conference strengths so different, not to mention that the difficulty within a conference will be wildly spread based on who you play early and who you play late.  Also, the ECAC is the only conference with a balanced schedule, so that'd be even more of a problem.  

Yes, the TUC suffers from this too, but it has a motivation, these are the types of teams you'd play in the tourney, so there's some relevance there.  I can't see why to count a game in late Jan more than one in mid-Nov.

[Rita]

i just think "last 20 (16) should be *one* of the factors... some of the pwr are determined by early season NC games, which don't always reflect how a team is at the end of the season.   it appears that those early nov. nc games do weight more heavily than any of the ones we played in march. in addition, we get hurt by what our opponents did (didn't) do in early november (see prior posts about colgate's loss to army...). I just think there needs to be something that balances out the effects of early season losses by "your opponents" and your "opponents-opponents".

just my 0.02 cents and wishing they could be converted to  0.02 bonus points....