The New WCHA 3, Revenge of the Sieve (2013-14)

[Almington]

Re: The New WCHA 3, Revenge of the Sieve (2013-14)

Non-Conference scheduling is also a crap shoot. Agreements have to be drawn up years in advance. Nothing says that a big player team you create an agreement today with will be as strong as you want when you play them in a year or two. Obviously, winning helps your PWR whoever you are, but quality losses help too.

You don't think Wisconsin is a little p*ssed with how mediocre NMU is this season? Kinda like a few years back when Wisco beat us and dragged our PWR down with their mild season.

Wisconsin had it's own set of issues this year, the NMU losses are a symptom not the problem. Only scoring ~2 goals per game is the problem.

The advantage of conference games is that the "win" stays in the conference, when you lose a NC game, it drags down the RPI of everyone in your conference. More NC games are only good for a conference if they can be relatively sure of winning at least half the time.

[Shirtless Guy]

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Wisconsin had it's own set of issues this year, the NMU losses are a symptom not the problem. Only scoring ~2 goals per game is the problem.

The advantage of conference games is that the "win" stays in the conference, when you lose a NC game, it drags down the RPI of everyone in your conference. More NC games are only good for a conference if they can be relatively sure of winning at least half the time.

The sad part with the new RPI calc putting less emphasis on Opp% and more on Opp Opp%, is that you are better off playing and beating the bottom teams in a good conference than playing the middle, upper end and risk losing.

[manurespreader]

Re: The New WCHA 3, Revenge of the Sieve (2013-14)

The advantage of conference games is that the "win" stays in the conference, when you lose a NC game, it drags down the RPI of everyone in your conference. More NC games are only good for a conference if they can be relatively sure of winning at least half the time.

You mean like when SCSU got swept by both UNH and NMU?

[uaafanblog]

Re: The New WCHA 3, Revenge of the Sieve (2013-14)

Well, it's UAAFanblog with a new name.

[manurespreader]

Re: The New WCHA 3, Revenge of the Sieve (2013-14)

Well one thing about donald is, he is very entertaining!

[manurespreader]

Re: The New WCHA 3, Revenge of the Sieve (2013-14)

So's Old Pio. Doesn't make their posts any less of a shitshow 80% of the time.

Maybe the two of them ought to get together and start up a college hockey radio show! I'd die laughing.

[Almington]

Re: The New WCHA 3, Revenge of the Sieve (2013-14)

The sad part with the new RPI calc putting less emphasis on Opp% and more on Opp Opp%, is that you are better off playing and beating the bottom teams in a good conference than playing the middle, upper end and risk losing.

Actually, the best option for the top teams are to play the teams that are near 0.500 in the strong(er) conference(s) and beat them. Paying the very bad teams, even from a strong conference, can still hurt your RPI since 21% is still Opp% if you win. The up side is that the near 0.500 teams will have a better chance of beating/tying on of the conferences top teams and thus improve your COp odds and may even sneak in as a TUC.

Of course, the irony is that if you lose you want it to be to a non-TUC from the conference with the fewest TUCs. While it will give you a hit in the RPI, it will not impact your COp or TUC records. Far better off to lose to a bottom end AH program than a middle of the road HE program.

[aparch]

Re: The New WCHA 3, Revenge of the Sieve (2013-14)

Early scheduling news:

I can't get my smart phone to copy the link from the NMU thread, but BGSU announced their WCHA schedule, and NMU has announced the fly to UAF, UAA, and UAH this upcoming year.

Sounds like there are scheduling quirks still.

[aygwm2]

Re: The New WCHA 3, Revenge of the Sieve (2013-14)

Here's the link should anyone be interested: BGSU WCHA Schedule

[davyd83]

Early scheduling news:

I can't get my smart phone to copy the link from the NMU thread, but BGSU announced their WCHA schedule, and NMU has announced the fly to UAF, UAA, and UAH this upcoming year.

Sounds like there are scheduling quirks still.

Teams will have to do the "triple" every year. There is really no way to avoid it and maintain a balanced schedule rotation which will even out over a four year period. It's really no different than someone playing at Bemidji, Mankato and Tech. And for a team like NMU, the flight to Huntsville, if they fly from Marquette is no longer a day than a bus ride to Bemidji. And if they fly from Green Bay, no worse than Bowling Green or Mankato.

[Shirtless Guy]

Re: The New WCHA 3, Revenge of the Sieve (2013-14)

Early scheduling news:

I can't get my smart phone to copy the link from the NMU thread, but BGSU announced their WCHA schedule, and NMU has announced the fly to UAF, UAA, and UAH this upcoming year.

Sounds like there are scheduling quirks still.

By analyzing the BGSU schedule it appears that each team in a pair will play half of each pair twice and the other half of the pair either home or away.

[davyd83]

Re: The New WCHA 3, Revenge of the Sieve (2013-14)

By analyzing the BGSU schedule it appears that each team in a pair will play half of each pair twice and the other half of the pair either home or away.

If that's the case for all, it would make a lot of sense. It would protect Huntsville and BG from having to go to Bemidji and Mankato in the same year as often, same for the 2 Alaska trips, or for Ferris and the Minnesotas.

[Shirtless Guy]

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If that's the case for all, it would make a lot of sense. It would protect Huntsville and BG from having to go to Bemidji and Mankato in the same year as often, same for the 2 Alaska trips, or for Ferris and the Minnesotas.

It will guarantee that every team goes to at least 1 Alaska school every year, which I think would be good, because I'm sure no one wants to have a year where they don't go to Alaska, putting alot of stress on scheduling by making some years have 6 NC, others with 10. It really doesn't help much...you're looking at 2 of 4 years where you go to both teams in each pair. So in 4 years, NMU & MTU are going to play at both UAA and UAF twice.

[davyd83]

Re: The New WCHA 3, Revenge of the Sieve (2013-14)

It will guarantee that every team goes to at least 1 Alaska school every year, which I think would be good, because I'm sure no one wants to have a year where they don't go to Alaska, putting alot of stress on scheduling by making some years have 6 NC, others with 10. It really doesn't help much...you're looking at 2 of 4 years where you go to both teams in each pair. So in 4 years, NMU & MTU are going to play at both UAA and UAF.

They will both travel to both Alaskas this year, and NMU goes to Huntsville as well. I believe Tech will do it over a break period and go up and stay the week in between.

[Shirtless Guy]

Re: The New WCHA 3, Revenge of the Sieve (2013-14)

They will both travel to both Alaskas this year, and NMU goes to Huntsville as well. I believe Tech will do it over a break period and go up and stay the week in between.

Sorry, that post you quoted was missing a word. In 4 years, NMU and MTU will play at both UAA and UAF twice, while going to either UAA or UAF in the other two seasons. It was reported that MTU will play at UAA/UAF the weekend before and after Thanksgiving and spend the week in Alaska.