Fun With Numbers: Pairwise, KRACH, and Otherwise '16-'17

[ARM]

Re: Fun With Numbers: Pairwise, KRACH, and Otherwise '16-'17

You just wait, once global warming takes full effect and your precious lakes stop freezing over, the east will rise again!

Bold prediction: Hockey East wins the title next year. Early indications are that it'll be Providence.

[TonyTheTiger20]

Bold prediction: Hockey East wins the title next year. Early indications are that it'll be Providence.

It's funny you mention that -- PC has been the 11th best team in KRACH since November 1st. 7th (!) since December 1st.

[ARM]

Re: Fun With Numbers: Pairwise, KRACH, and Otherwise '16-'17

It's funny you mention that -- PC has been the 11th best team in KRACH since November 1st. 7th (!) since December 1st.

IMO, they'd be the perfect HEA team to win it all. The rest of you wouldn't know if you should be happy or mad. And the rest of the country would just marvel at the ugly uniforms.

[FiveHoleFrenzy]

Re: Fun With Numbers: Pairwise, KRACH, and Otherwise '16-'17

You just wait, once global warming takes full effect and your precious lakes stop freezing over, the east will rise again!

You've seen what happens to the east coast in "Day After Tomorrow" right?

[TonyTheTiger20]

You've seen what happens to the east coast in "Day After Tomorrow" right?

........Okay that's the best point anyone has ever made on this forum.

[D2D]

Re: Fun With Numbers: Pairwise, KRACH, and Otherwise '16-'17

You just wait, once global warming takes full effect and your precious lakes stop freezing over, the east will rise again!

No need to wait, we started to put in artificial ice at a few rinks more than 5 years ago!
http://www.arenamaps.com/arenas/Minnesota.htm

[TonyTheTiger20]

Re: Fun With Numbers: Pairwise, KRACH, and Otherwise '16-'17

I'm having some thoughts on the Pairwise and there's a chance things could shake out incredibly messy.

If UMD and UM end up #5 and #6 (not out of the realm of possibility at all, since there's a big gap from 6 to 7 and they both have to play ND x2 and UW x2 before the regular season is out), and if UW stays #1, you're almost definitely going to have:

#6 UMD/UM @ #1 Wisconsin
#8 @ #2 SLU/Clarky/BC
#7 @ #3 SLU/Clarky/BC
#5 UM/UMD @ #4 SLU/Clarky/BC

This is regardless of who the CHA champion is, whether they're eastern or not, because if they are #7, then #8 will be eastern and a bus trip to #2, and whether they are #8, then #7 will be eastern and a bus trip to #3.

"UM/UMD at 5/6 and UW at 1" are not even close to being "locks" -- 2 through 6 are still entirely a shuffle -- but if it does happen, that's a pretty messy bracket.

[ARM]

Re: Fun With Numbers: Pairwise, KRACH, and Otherwise '16-'17

The more I look at this bracket, the more I'm wondering where all the depth you talk about is. Maybe I've just got a bad case of apathy.

[TonyTheTiger20]

Re: Fun With Numbers: Pairwise, KRACH, and Otherwise '16-'17

The more I look at this bracket, the more I'm wondering where all the depth you talk about is. Maybe I've just got a bad case of apathy.

Answer me this, if Wisconsin weren't in this tournament could you confidently eliminate anyone not from the CHA from having a chance? I couldn't. Even Cornell and Princeton are en fuego.

[TonyTheTiger20]

Re: Fun With Numbers: Pairwise, KRACH, and Otherwise '16-'17

More musings:

Of the 4 teams in the logjam for 2nd through 6th, UMD, UM, SLU, Clarkson, and BC all end with pretty tough schedules. BC's is probably the easiest of the bunch but it's deceptively tough -- after they play UConn this weekend (who is average, not terrible), the worst team they have left is #16 Vermont. Somehow PC is 15th in the Pairwise?!

Last 6 games (in reverse order of PWR)

UMD: SCSU, SCSU, NoDak, NoDak, Wisco, Wisco
UM: Kato, Kato, NoDak, NoDak, Wisco, Wisco
BC: UConn, UVM, PC, PC, NU, NU
SLU: DU, HU, QU, Colgate, PU, Cornell
Clarky: DU, HU, QU, Colgate, PU, Cornell

The parity this year is just bananas. I could not begin to guess who is going to finish where of these 5 teams. But, I am willing to bet you will see a tournament that will shake out as:

1 Wisconsin
2/3/4/5/6 BC/Clarky/MN/MN-D/SLU (alphabetical)
7 Cornell or Princeton (or I guess Colgate or Quinny, but I would bet on the first two)
8 CHA (though Bobby Mo could end up 7th without that much trouble)

[ARM]

Re: Fun With Numbers: Pairwise, KRACH, and Otherwise '16-'17

Answer me this, if Wisconsin weren't in this tournament ...

Another one of those years where the sport would be a lot better off if we could just eliminate Wisconsin. There are a lot of teams out there that you could describe as, "average, not terrible."

[TonyTheTiger20]

Re: Fun With Numbers: Pairwise, KRACH, and Otherwise '16-'17

Another one of those years where the sport would be a lot better off if we could just eliminate Wisconsin.

The sport, America, planet earth... you know what ARM, I think we finally agree about something! Let's just shoot the state of Wisconsin into the sun and get it over with.

[Eeyore]

Re: Fun With Numbers: Pairwise, KRACH, and Otherwise '16-'17

The sport, America, planet earth... you know what ARM, I think we finally agree about something! Let's just shoot the state of Wisconsin into the sun and get it over with.

I don't think Wisconsin is properly balanced for a good launch. We'll have to strap Ohio on as a counterweight.

[TonyTheTiger20]

Re: Fun With Numbers: Pairwise, KRACH, and Otherwise '16-'17

I don't think Wisconsin is properly balanced for a good launch. We'll have to strap Ohio on as a counterweight.

That's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.

[EastFan1]

Re: Fun With Numbers: Pairwise, KRACH, and Otherwise '16-'17

Somehow PC is 15th in the Pairwise?!

PC has a decent chance of outscoring BC and Minnesota this year.