Bracketology 2019

[ugarte]

This week is nicer.

What I didn't get was this:

"And while we're at it, why not swap Cornell and Northeastern for distance purposes."

"Let's give Cornell a tougher matchup than their seed warrants every year because 'distance purposes.'"

duluth is a tough first round but that's a good second round if we survive.

[Trotsky]

This week is nicer.

What I didn't get was this:

"And while we're at it, why not swap Cornell and Northeastern for distance purposes."

"Let's give Cornell a tougher matchup than their seed warrants every year because 'distance purposes.'"

duluth is a tough first round but that's a good second round if we survive.

We haven't gotten past the 1R in 7 years.  Let's just worry about Clarkson.  ::cheer::

[ugarte]

This week is nicer.

What I didn't get was this:

"And while we're at it, why not swap Cornell and Northeastern for distance purposes."

"Let's give Cornell a tougher matchup than their seed warrants every year because 'distance purposes.'"

duluth is a tough first round but that's a good second round if we survive.

We haven't gotten past the 1R in 7 years.  Let's just worry about Clarkson.  ::cheer::

In the bracketology thread? I have to admit that I don't care where they place Clarkson.

[nshapiro]

I know avoiding second round conference matchups are not a listed criterion, but...

Northeastern is 5 miles closer to Providence than Manchester and Cornell is 40 miles closer to Providence than Manchester.

Is saving a net of 35 miles of total travel worth exposure to the risk of an additional second round conference matchup?

Attendance cannot be an issue - any Northeastern fan willing to travel 50 miles would travel 55 miles and any Cornell fan willing to travel 325 miles would travel 365 miles

[Trotsky]

I have to admit that I don't care where they place Clarkson.

Though we probably should, since we may well wind up in the same band and thus competing for the same slot.

[Jim Hyla]

Back to Fargo

This week's brackets

West Regional (Fargo):
16 American International vs. 1 St. Cloud State
9 Arizona State vs. 8 Cornell[/b]

Midwest Regional (Allentown):
15 Bowling Green vs. 3 Ohio State
12 Clarkson vs. 6 Minnesota State

East Regional (Providence):
14 Northeastern vs. 4 Minnesota Duluth
10 Western Michigan vs. 5 Quinnipiac

Northeast Regional (Manchester):
13 Harvard vs. 2 Massachusetts
11 UMass Lowell vs. 7 Denver
Conference breakdowns

NCHC — 4
ECAC Hockey — 4
Hockey East — 3
WCHA — 2
Atlantic Hockey – 1
Big Ten — 1
Independent – 1

[nshapiro]

So last week Moy swapped seeds 10 and 11 (Cornell and Northeastern) to save 35 miles (net) of travel.

This week he does not swap seeds 7 and 8 (Denver and Cornell) which would save over 2000 miles of travel.

What am I missing?

[ugarte]

it's just one season but it's wild that after the big ten split off there was an expectation that their resources meant that they'd start to dominate and yet... Ohio State is the only team from the conference in position for a bid.

[marty]

it's just one season but it's wild that after the big ten split off there was an expectation that their resources meant that they'd start to dominate and yet... Ohio State is the only team from the conference in position for a bid.

This is a turnaround compared to last year which saw 4 of the 7 Big 10 teams make the 16 team tournament and 3 advance to the Frozen Four. This after the I believe only 1 (post split) Big 10 team making the FF in all the years prior to 2018.

Stats like this must cause insanity for certain fans. Eh?

[Jim Hyla]

This week.

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[b]West Regional (Fargo):[/b]
16 American International vs. 1 St. Cloud State
9 Western Michigan vs. 8 Arizona State

[b]Midwest Regional (Allentown):[/b]
[b][u]13 Clarkson[/u][/b] vs. 3 Minnesota Duluth
11 Northeastern vs. 7 Ohio State

[b]East Regional (Providence):[/b]
14 UMass Lowell vs. 4 Denver
12 Providence vs. [b][u]6 Quinnipiac[/u][/b]

[b]Northeast Regional (Manchester):[/b]
[b][u][b][u]15 Harvard[/u][/b] vs. 2 Massachusetts
10 Cornell[/u][/b] vs. 5 Minnesota State

Conference breakdowns

[b][u]ECAC Hockey — 4[/u][/b]
Hockey East — 4
NCHC — 4
Atlantic Hockey – 1
Big Ten — 1
Independent – 1
WCHA — 1


[Jim Hyla]

If NCAA tournament started today, UMass Lowell out, Bowling Green in

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This week's brackets

[b]West Regional (Fargo):[/b]
16 American International vs. 1 St. Cloud State
11 Western Michigan vs. 5 Minnesota State

[b]Midwest Regional (Allentown):[/b]
15 Bowling Green vs. 3 Minnesota Duluth
[b][u]12 Clarkson[/u][/b] vs. 7 Ohio State

[b]East Regional (Providence):[/b]
[b][u]13 Cornell[/u][/b] vs. 4 Denver
9 Providence vs. [b][u]6 Quinnipiac[/u][/b]

[b]Northeast Regional (Manchester):[/b]
[b][u]14 Harvard[/u][/b] vs. 2 Massachusetts
10 Northeastern vs. 8 Arizona State

Conference breakdowns

[b][u]ECAC Hockey — 4[/u][/b]
NCHC — 4
Hockey East — 3
WCHA – 2
Atlantic Hockey – 1
Big Ten — 1
Independent – 1


[Beeeej]

Not to get too obsessive about these things, but we're rooting against Providence again tonight; a BU win again pushes them down to #13 and us up to #12. Other results don't seem to matter much.

The game's on NBC Sports Boston, whatever that is.

[Trotsky]

Not to get too obsessive about these things, but we're rooting against Providence again tonight; a BU win again pushes them down to #13 and us up to #12. Other results don't seem to matter much.

The game's on NBC Sports Boston, whatever that is.

Those are the Comcast regional networks re-baptized.

[Trotsky]

Playoffstatus currently has us at 70% to make the Show.  3% to win it all.

In the ECAC, 45% for the Cleary, 19% for the Whitelaw.

[BearLover]

Playoffstatus currently has us at 70% to make the Show.  3% to win it all.

In the ECAC, 45% for the Cleary, 19% for the Whitelaw.

In addition to the already-discussed issues with this prediction model, it also assumes top-14 is the cut-off for making the tournament. That's probably generous.