ECAC Playoff Possibilities and Race in a Nutshell Thread

[Trotsky]

John's excellent annual efforts are available off the 2008 menu on TBRW.

If the remaining games follow the rule that better teams win and tied teams tie, Cornell finishes 7th, losing a three-way tie with Harvard and Union.

If the remaining games follow the rule that better teams win and tied teams have the home team win, Cornell finishes 6th.

The latter rule with the exception of a Cornell tie at either Quinnipiac or Princeton puts them in 5th.  Ties at both give them 3rd (winning a tie-break with Quinnipiac).  Cornell winning out under this rule gives them 2nd.

[daredevilcu]

I put this in Jim's thread about the rest of the ECAC year as well, but it seems like more conversation might take place in this thread.

Clarkson, Princeton, Quinnipiac, and Cornell have all locked up home ice in the playoffs for at least the first round. None of them can finish worse than 8th.

Also, SLU, RPI, Brown, and Dartmouth will all be playing in the first weekend. None of them can break into the top 4, although all have a chance at home ice. With one more win, Colgate could seal that off and make it so only SLU has a shot at it. Big gap this year between 1-8 and 9-12 this late. As early as Friday next week we could know who's going on the road for the first round.

All teams, 1-8, are within striking distance of first place. Hooray ECAC, always taking it down to the final game of the final weekend and beyond.

[jtwcornell91]

You should probably re-run any scenarios you've done.  I just noticed that the ECAC's new fun-killing "Total Wins" tiebreaker (between H2H points and points vs top 4) was not implemented in the CGI script, although it was in the nutshell page.  It's now been fixed (I hope!) everywhere, so please try again.

[KeithK]

[quote jtwcornell91]...the ECAC's new fun-killing "Total Wins" tiebreaker (between H2H points and points vs top 4)...[/quote]
When the hell did that happeb?  And why?  Fun killing is right.

[Give My Regards]

[quote KeithK]
When the hell did that happeb?  And why?  Fun killing is right.[/quote]

I'm going to guess it happened about 10 minutes after the league resolved the Cornell-Quinnipiac infinite loop last year... but I managed to miss the announcement also.

And it's not really all that fun-killing.  It wouldn't have resolved anything last year, as both Cornell and Q had 10 league wins.

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote Give My Regards][quote KeithK]
It wouldn't have resolved anything last year, as both Cornell and Q had 10 league wins.[/quote]
Unfortunately, ten wins isn't gonna get us a first-round bye this year.

[jtwcornell91]

[quote Give My Regards][quote KeithK]
When the hell did that happeb?  And why?  Fun killing is right.[/quote]

I'm going to guess it happened about 10 minutes after the league resolved the Cornell-Quinnipiac infinite loop last year... but I managed to miss the announcement also.

And it's not really all that fun-killing.  It wouldn't have resolved anything last year, as both Cornell and Q had 10 league wins.[/quote]

Actually, it would have, since it would have broken the tie for 8th among Yale (8 wins), Colgate (7 wins) and RPI (6 wins).  That would have provided a complete top 8 for Cornell (14 points) and Quinnipiac (12 points), so Cornell still would have got fourth place.  (But Yale would have had home ice instead of Colgate, and we wouldn't have got to the infinite loop.)
http://slack.net/~whelan/tbrw/tbrw.cgi?2007/ecac.standings
http://slack.net/~whelan/tbrw/tbrw.cgi?2007/ecac.nutshell

[Avash]

Please forgive the plug, but here's my article on CHN on the ECAC standings:

http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2008/02/21_ecacdown.php

[Chris 02]

Any chance the playoff possibilities tool has been updated for 2008-2009?

[Trotsky]

[quote Chris 02]Any chance the playoff possibilities tool has been updated for 2008-2009?[/quote]John's menu page on TBRW for this year.

[jtwcornell91]

I was waiting for the end of this year's later-than-usual travel-partner-on-travel-partner action, but it should be set up now:

http://www.slack.net/~whelan/tbrw/tbrw.cgi?2009/ecac.nutshell
http://www.slack.net/~whelan/tbrw/tbrw.cgi?2009/ecac.cgi

[Chris 02]

[quote jtwcornell91]I was waiting for the end of this year's later-than-usual travel-partner-on-travel-partner action[/quote]

That sounds oddly erotic.

[Chris 02]

Is the 2013 version available?

[Trotsky]

Is the 2013 version available?

John and I are in negotiations.

[jtn27]

Is the 2013 version available?

Let me make it simple for you: in a nutshell, we do not have a shot at the ECAC title this year.