Quest for #1 seed

[Stephen Turner]

It looks like Brown can remain a TUC if Holy Cross wins the AHA.  Go Crusaders!

[jtwcornell91]

[Q]Stephen Turner Wrote:

 Thanks.  Really stupid that it is based on %, and not records.  If you play 2 teams, 1 is 1-0, the other is 0-10, your schedule strength is 50% and not 9% (1-10).[/q]

I'm not following very closely, but I can say that in that situation, your Opponents' Winning Percentage would be .500.  It is the average of the winning percentages of your opponents (leaving out games against you).  But those winning percentages can be differently impacted by a single result if they're calculated from different numbers of games.

[Scersk '97]

I don't think we can win the ECAC championship and see 5 ECAC(HL) teams in the NCAAs anymore.  Stupid Michigan State.

Oh well, guess we'll have to settle with winning the tourney (hopefully) and getting 4 ECAC(HL) teams in.  Mwah-ha-ha-ha!  Oh, the westerners will be mad.  I would also get a certain amount of satisfaction from seeing only one bid for the CCHA, especially if, say, Michigan were upset in the first round.

Here's to a non-Western champion this year!  (Boy, I am getting ahead of myself.)

[jtwcornell91]

One of the non-Cornell things we needed happened, CC beating Minnesota.  So, at least in a scenario where the other favorites win, we get the #1 seed if we win and CC beats DU.

If the only upset is UNH over BC in the HE final, something potentially interesting happens.  We end up tied with Minnesota for 4th place in the PWR. Minnesota wins the comparison, but Cornell has the higher RPI.  The "right" way to break the tie is using the head-to-head comparison, but it's easier for a computer program to use RPI.  (Kind of like how standings ties are listed alphabetically rather than by applying the tie-breakers.)  So whether Cornell or Minnesota gets the 1-seed will tell us how the committee is breaking PWR ties these days.  (We already know that they look less at the individual comparisons than they used to from the way the 2003 seedings turned out.)

Vermont and Dartmouth can get into a similar tie for #14 if Vermont beats Colgate in the ECAC consolation game.