Polls and NPI 2026

[BearLover]

Part of the pain of being in the Ivy League is that we schedule fewer games... so each loss means more.

I'll never be able to find it again, but I saw a clip the the other day of the Wisconsin coach pushing for more regular season games. Don't know how widely held that opinion is among other coaches, though.

I've heard Denver coach advocate for this on the CHN podcast. He cited an increase in revenue. I doubt most schools earn much revenue at all from a couple more home games. The road team traveling for those games loses money. (Some like Brown almost certainly lose money from a couple more home and a couple more away games.) I get that schools are desperately scrapping for anything to boost their revenue sharing budgets, but this change seems self-serving for those proposing it.

[The Rancor]

Part of the pain of being in the Ivy League is that we schedule fewer games... so each loss means more.

I'll never be able to find it again, but I saw a clip the the other day of the Wisconsin coach pushing for more regular season games. Don't know how widely held that opinion is among other coaches, though.

He also advocated for home site regionals (at university rinks)

[adamw]

I just listened to today's USCHO bracketology podcast. I believe the hosts stated several things that are factually wrong. However, they did mention an interesting caveat, which is that they aren't confident the NPI numbers currently available are 100% accurate because this is the first time college hockey has used NPI.

I do note that I spot-checked a few numbers and the USCHO and CHN NPI numbers match, so at the very least those two websites appear to be calculating it the same way.

Everything is correct. The only reason they say this is because of a (misguided - could use stronger words but) notion that we have to make believe we don't know the exact formula, and that we're just "approximating" it. This used to be a thing like 25 years ago where you had to do that dance. Some insight for you: No one gives a crap anymore. It's all out there.  They know it's right, we know it's right.  (This is not to say either site can't make algorithm errors - but if we did, we'd know about it in a hurry, and make it right)

[adamw]

You know what would fix the problem?  The NCAA creating an API so other sites dont need to figure it out on their own.

It would need to be a smart API so you could adjust game results for what if stuff.

If I told you how incestuous all this data gathering was, it would make your head spin. It's fine the way it is. Just trust me it's all right.