INCH / ESPN Poll

[INCH Poll]

Doesn't Look Good

http://www.insidecollegehockey.com/5Polls/0405/polls_0311.htm

[CowbellGuy]

Thanks, I was looking for something to wipe my ass with.

[jtwcornell91]

"Now I know why human beings wipe their ass!"

[RedAR]

if nothing else, the incredible volatility (teams routinely moving up or down 5-10 spots or greater from week to week) of the INCH Polls indicates that their polls are pretty much useless.

[French Rage]

Though to be honest, with the way we've played, even though we may know we're better than that #16 is about what we deserve at this point.

[jtwcornell91]

[Q]RedAR Wrote:

 if nothing else, the incredible volatility (teams routinely moving up or down 5-10 spots or greater from week to week) of the INCH Polls indicates that their polls are pretty much useless.[/q]

Well, they're not polls.  They're just someone's off-the-cuff rankings.

[CowbellGuy]

I suppose I should have been clearer. I wasn't disparaging our placement on their rankings, but rather the rankings themselves. As utterly useless as polls are, this thing is doubly so.

[Greenberg \'97]

[Q]CowbellGuy Wrote:

 I suppose I should have been clearer. I wasn't disparaging our placement on their rankings, but rather the rankings themselves. As utterly useless as polls are, this thing is doubly so.[/q]

But their note makes such a clever reference to people jumping into gorges.  Certainly you can forgive something that's so witty and original.

[mjh89]

I think that Power Rankings are a little different than polls as they weigh the teams recent performance much more than do the polls. Polls are more of a judgment as to who's a better team while Power Rankings are more into who's a better team RIGHT NOW.

[Steve M]

If you really want to know where the team stands look at the Pair Wise  Rankings, http://siouxsports.com/hockey/rankings/pwr.php., that are used to determine NCAA at large bids and seeding.  USCHO doesn't publish these until January, when they first become statistically significant, but they provide a better bearing than any poll as to how the Cornell hockey team is doing so far, i.e. not good.

Cornell needs to sweep the 3 upcoming games against cupcakes at Lynah, and then more importantly have a solid performandce at the Everblades in order to get back into the only Top 15 that matters.

[calgARI '07]

[Q]Steve Marciniec Wrote:

 If you really want to know where the team stands look at the Pair Wise  Rankings, ., that are used to determine NCAA at large bids and seeding.  USCHO doesn't publish these until January, when they first become statistically significant, but they provide a better bearing than any poll as to how the Cornell hockey team is doing so far, i.e. not good.

Cornell needs to sweep the 3 upcoming games against cupcakes at Lynah, and then more importantly have a solid performandce at the Everblades in order to get back into the only Top 15 that matters.[/q]

Although I do agree with almost everything you said, I'm not so convinced that Princeton is a "cupcake."  Point taken though.

[CowbellGuy]

Is there something below "cupcake"?

[calgARI '07]

Yeah there is, but what does that have to do with Princeton being a cupcake?

[CowbellGuy]

I'm not convinced they're even at cupcake level. Their only win of note is, perhaps, Dartmouth. And they got that because Leroux made 37 saves. That was the game Jessiman was hurt, so Dartmouth's first line was not particularly useful for almost the whole game.

[calgARI '07]

Guess we'll find out in a couple weeks, but beating Dartmouth and RPI tells me that they're decent, not to mention Vermont barely slipping by them (2-0 with an EN).