ECAC Playoffs 2026

[Trotsky]

1R:

Friday, March 6

11 St. Lawrence @ 6 Harvard
9 RPI @ 8 Clarkson

Saturday, March 7

12 Brown @ 5 Union
10 Yale @ 7 Colgate

Our potential QF opponents are: Yale, RPI, Clarkson, Colgate or Harvard (chalk).

[chimpfood]

Dartmouth is 2 seed no? First tie breaker is head to head points

[stereax]

Yale or RPI please.

Clarkson or Colgate will take years off my lifespan, and Harvard isn't as sucky as we like to think it is.

[Trotsky]

Dartmouth is 2 seed no? First tie breaker is head to head points

Yes.

1 Qpc
2 Drt
3 Cor
4 Prn

Adam, you know I love you, but not sorting by seed is no bueno.

[chimpfood]

Dartmouth is 2 seed no? First tie breaker is head to head points

Yes.

1 Qpc
2 Drt
3 Cor
4 Prn

Adam, you know I love you, but not sorting by seed is no bueno.

My bad, on second look your original post lines up with that. I'm tired as hell after lax, basketball and hockey all having the biggest games of their seasons.

[Trotsky]

Yale or RPI please.

Clarkson or Colgate will take years off my lifespan, and Harvard isn't as sucky as we like to think it is.

If there's one thing I've learned in my nearly 300 years of fandom it's be careful what you wish for, you might get it.

We'll get who we get and like it.

[adamw]

Dartmouth is 2 seed no? First tie breaker is head to head points

Yes.

1 Qpc
2 Drt
3 Cor
4 Prn

Adam, you know I love you, but not sorting by seed is no bueno.

I don't know - I never have been sure that you do...

I spend thousands of hours a year on the site - but trying to code all the league's tiebreakers into the sort would take years off my life. Maybe Claude can do it now.  We do have a page with all the brackets and seeds though.

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/reports/conf/ECAC/4/bracket

[Give My Regards]

Dartmouth is 2 seed no? First tie breaker is head to head points

Yes.

1 Qpc
2 Drt
3 Cor
4 Prn

Adam, you know I love you, but not sorting by seed is no bueno.

I'd cut Adam some slack, since as of Sunday morning the ECAC site doesn't have it right either.

[Dafatone]

Yale or RPI please.

Clarkson or Colgate will take years off my lifespan, and Harvard isn't as sucky as we like to think it is.

I just don't want to see Colgate again. That chipfest seemed to really throw us off our game.

[VIEWfromK]

Why isn't Cornell the two seed with more regulation league wins than Dartmouth?  Why is head to head the first tie breaker?  Doesn't seem right. 

[Jim Hyla]

Why isn't Cornell the two seed with more regulation league wins than Dartmouth?  Why is head to head the first tie breaker?  Doesn't seem right. 

Why is wins "right"?

And of course you answered your first question with your second question.

[VIEWfromK]

Why isn't Cornell the two seed with more regulation league wins than Dartmouth?  Why is head to head the first tie breaker?  Doesn't seem right. 

Why is wins "right"?

And of course you answered your first question with your second question.

Cornell had 14 regulation wins to Dartmouth's 13.  That should always be more valuable.  Head to head comes into play beyond that.  Regulation wins is the first tie breaker in the NHL

[Jim Hyla]

Why isn't Cornell the two seed with more regulation league wins than Dartmouth?  Why is head to head the first tie breaker?  Doesn't seem right. 

Why is wins "right"?

And of course you answered your first question with your second question.

Cornell had 14 regulation wins to Dartmouth's 13.  That should always be more valuable.  Head to head comes into play beyond that.  Regulation wins is the first tie breaker in the NHL

Instead of playing every game till you have a winner, once you start basing seeding on some sort of point system, it's all opinion.

For example, let's say that you win every game in OT, with no regulation wins. You wouldn't put that team last because regulation wins are more important. But how you figure it out is opinion.

Yours, mine and the chicken next door, they're all just opinions.

And thankfully, hopefully, we don't see 3 on 3 or shoot outs determine championships.

[VIEWfromK]

Why isn't Cornell the two seed with more regulation league wins than Dartmouth?  Why is head to head the first tie breaker?  Doesn't seem right. 

Why is wins "right"?

And of course you answered your first question with your second question.

Cornell had 14 regulation wins to Dartmouth's 13.  That should always be more valuable.  Head to head comes into play beyond that.  Regulation wins is the first tie breaker in the NHL

Instead of playing every game till you have a winner, once you start basing seeding on some sort of point system, it's all opinion.

For example, let's say that you win every game in OT, with no regulation wins. You wouldn't put that team last because regulation wins are more important. But how you figure it out is opinion.

Yours, mine and the chicken next door, they're all just opinions.

And thankfully, hopefully, we don't see 3 on 3 or shoot outs determine championships.

The ECAC clearly values regulation wins more now that they award three points.  Why shouldn't that be reflected in the standings?  The body of work over a 22 game league schedule should outweigh a head to head matchup of two games.

I tried to get the chicken next door to weigh in on the topic but he's still bent out of shape over that getting tied to the net thing. 

[andyw2100]

I tried to get the chicken next door to weigh in on the topic but he's still bent out of shape over that getting tied to the net thing.

That's one old chicken...