Hahvahd vs. BC

[Tom Pasniewski 98]

Well then you should be easy to spot.  Plus as at the Hahvahd-BU game, it's a lot of fun to watch the fans around you confused by who you're rooting for and should be even more fun in Harvard (sucks) own building.  I'll come find you.

[Evan \'02]

1 - 1 midway through the second. WHRB broadcasters make Adam look really good.

[Evan \'02]

Now 2 -1 BC on the PP. Still in second

[littleredfan]

Evan, whats up with that man?  Adam Wodon IS really good...he doesn't need the existence of crappy amateur Harvard broadcasters to make him look good! You best apologize....

[Evan \'02]

2-2 end of the second.
Good point. Adam does such a great job that he makes the WHRB kids look like junior high students.

[Section A]

that game over yet?

[Evan \'02]

In OT

[Evan \'02]

2-2 Final

[gwm3]

I suppose that's a good result.  A little more respect for the conference without Harvard actually picking up a win  ;-)

[Greg Berge]

Are "games v. common opponents" still a selection criterion?  It's very nice to be picking up wins against teams that BC isn't beating.

[jtwcornell91]

Greg wrote:

Are "games v. common opponents" still a selection criterion?

Yes.  The Championships Handbook wasn't out yet the last time I checked, but the USCHO article indicated that there are now four criteria:

1. RPI (now back to 25/50/25)
2. Head-to-head
3. Record vs other TUCs (RPI>=.500 or AQ)
4. Record vs common opponents

[jtwcornell91]

Tying a higher-rated team boosted Harvard's KRACH and moved them from #10 to #8.  It also moves them up a notch in the PWR because it gives them the PWC over Mass-Amherst.  Part of that is what you'd expect, that BC now becomes a common opponent for the pair and UMA already lost to them.  But another effect is that because Harvard's winning percentage goes down with the tie, Brown's opponents' winning percentage also goes down, which lowers Brown's RPI enough to make them not a TUC, which improves Harvard's record against TUCs and turns that criterion from a UMass win to a tie.  The Crimson would still win the comparison over the Minutemen if they'd beaten rather than tied BC, but it would be closer (2-1 rather than 2-0).

[ugarte]

That analysis, while intricate and compelling, is ridiculous in December.  (But thanks. The statistical obsessives let the slackers keep slacking.)

[Josh '99]

I think somebody was bored this morning.  :-P

[JohnnyB]

So, seven Red fans were in attendance last night to my knowledge.  The crowd was supposedly a sell-out and was about 50/50 Harvard/BC fans.  The place was so damn quiet.  Occassionally a small group would start chanting Let's go Harvard but beyond the occassion goal scored, you could have heard a pin drop.  If we had chanted BU rejects it would have been heard around the rink!  It was a decent game, much more even than the shots on goal would indicate.  BC had a lot of shots go over the net.  Still sad that we bought tickets two days before the game to a hocket game in Boston pitting two Boston teams against each other....

-J

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