The Rest of the ECAC Reg Season

[ursusminor]

[quote Trotsky][quote ursusminor][quote Trotsky]Just. Win. Baby.[/quote]

Is Schafer bringing him back to beat up on Erik Burgdoerfer?[/quote]Only iof this guy is unavailable.[/quote]

Just remember that Erik's father taught him all he knows http://www.rpiathletics.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=2087&path=hockey. (See under Personal.)

[Jim Hyla]

So here is next weekend. A fast try on John's ECAC Poss. Script and if we beat Yale, the only way to get first is for 'gate to also beat them ::wow:: or if they tie, we need SLU to get fourth over Dartmouth as Yale lost and tied SLU but beat Dartmouth twice. Of course Princeton needs to lose a game as well.

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         Pts SRS
1  Yale  30  14   Us,    gate
2  Prin  28  10.5 @Dmth, @Hvd
3  Us    27  13   @Yale, @Bwn
4  Dmth  22  9    Prin,  Q
   SLU   22  18.5 @Unn,  @RPI
6  Hvd   20  9    Q,     Prin
7  Q     19  10.5 @Hvd,  @Dmth
8  Unn   18  13   SLU,   Clk
   Clk   18  18.5 @RPI,  @Unn
11 gate  14  13   Bwn,   Yale
10 RPI   13  13   Clk,   SLU
12 Brwn   9  14   gate,  Us


[jtwcornell91]

You know, someone could have fun with with the head-to-head predicted winning percentages here and the probability of various final standings.  Of course, it wouldn't quite work because the model doesn't include ties...

[Jim Hyla]

[quote Jim Hyla] A fast try on John's ECAC Poss. Script and if we beat Yale, the only way to get first is for 'gate to also beat them ::wow:: or if they tie, we need SLU to get fourth over Dartmouth as Yale lost and tied SLU but beat Dartmouth twice. Of course Princeton needs to lose a game as well.
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And we can't have Harvard get fourth; Yale wins the tiebreaker with us with either Dartmouth or Harvard in fourth. Go SLU.

[daredevilcu]

Chalk this up as another ridiculous ECAC season.  The only thing completely predictable was Brown - they're guaranteed to finish last now.

[marty]

[quote daredevilcu]Chalk this up as another ridiculous ECAC season.  The only thing completely predictable was Brown - they're guaranteed to finish last now.[/quote]

So do you dislike parity or uncertainty?

[daredevilcu]

Not at all!  I'm actually a little disappointed that Brown is already completely out of the hunt for any spot, and that 1-3 is cemented, just orders aren't determined.

[Chris '03]

[quote Jim Hyla]
And we can't have Harvard get fourth...[/quote]

It's remarkable that a team that went two months without a win and almost a year without a road win could be in line for a bye.

[Scersk '97]

[quote Chris '03][quote Jim Hyla]
And we can't have Harvard get fourth...[/quote]

It's remarkable that a team that went two months without a win and almost a year without a road win could be in line for a bye.[/quote]

They really should play for ties this next weekend.  7-7-8 would be a sweet record.  Sweet!

"We'll tie anybody, anywhere!"

Or perhaps they could go for Boeing sponsorship.

[KeithK]

[quote Scersk '97][quote Chris '03][quote Jim Hyla]
And we can't have Harvard get fourth...[/quote]

It's remarkable that a team that went two months without a win and almost a year without a road win could be in line for a bye.[/quote]

They really should play for ties this next weekend.  7-7-8 would be a sweet record.  Sweet!

"We'll tie anybody, anywhere!"

Or perhaps they could go for Boeing sponsorship.[/quote]
I say cancel one game and shoot for the symmetric 7-7-7.

[Dafatone]

Anyone know how the SLU Dartmouth tiebreak for 4th works?  If they end up tied.

[KeithK]

SLU would win a two way tiebreaker based on record against Top 4.  The Saints have 7 points against Yale, Princeton and Cornell while the Big Green have no more than 4 (if they beat Princeton Friday).  If Harvard or Q leapfrogged them SLU would still win the tiebreak (obviously not for 4th anymore though).

A quick inspection of Whelan's Head to Head points table doesn't show any scenarios where a multi team tie would leave Dartmouth ahead of SLU.  But I haven't tried running the scenarios.

[Give My Regards]

[quote Dafatone]Anyone know how the SLU Dartmouth tiebreak for 4th works?  If they end up tied.[/quote]

They split their season series, so it would go to the second tiebreaker, league wins.  Assuming they both swept, Dartmouth would win that one, 12-11.

Top 4 is the third tiebreaker. The ECAC added league wins as the second tiebreaker last season.

[Give My Regards]

Forgot -- if St. Lawrence goes 1-1 on the weekend and Dartmouth ties twice, then they'd both have 11 league wins and the Top 4 tiebreaker, which would favor St. Lawrence, would come into play.

[KeithK]

My bad, I missed that change.  (Really stupid change IMO.)