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  1. Sean Pickett

    Hockey East by the Numbers

    Hockey East by the Numbers This past weekend had 4 of the top 6 teams playing 4 of the bottom 5 teams: 3 had 2 game series, while the other was a single game. BU swept BC, Maine swept PC, UML defeated UMass, while Merrimack was able to take 4 of 6 points from UVM. Currently 51 points are needed...
  2. Sean Pickett

    Have (Healthy) Kidneys, Will Travel (to Boston)

    After many years, including nearly four years on the kidney transplant waitlist, I’ve reached end-stage renal disease as my latest eGFR result is 9. I will be seeing a surgeon regarding dialysis options next week, but my nephrologist has stated that the best option is receiving a living donor...
  3. Sean Pickett

    Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics

    Back in January 2016 forum poster Freddie started a thread tiled “2015-16 winning percentage by goals scored”. Their simple analysis showed that teams that score 3+ goals won more games than they lost. The next day BC fan Nick Papagiorgio posted his thesis, based on a very small and select...
  4. Sean Pickett

    BU 2020-21 Season: The Road to … Nowhere?

    The season hasn’t even begun and Vermont has blown up the Hockey East schedule with their decision to postpone the start of winter sports until 18 December (conveniently a day before their basketball teams’ league games start). On the men’s side UVM had scheduled 8 games before 18 December, with...
  5. Sean Pickett

    BU Off-Season: Forward to the Past

    I thought I would get the off-season thread started. I have been trying to add a few BU games to my Google drive, but Google is taking a very long time to process some of the files for streaming. So far the following games are available to stream: 2009 NCAA Semifinal BU vs UVM 2009 NCAA...
  6. Sean Pickett

    Selection For the NCAA's (1974 Version)

    In looking up some information on the National Invitational Hockey Tournament I came across the following information in the 12 February 1974 issue of TIHN (The Intercollegiate Hockey Newsletter): SELECTION FOR THE NCAA's The information below has been extracted from the 1974 NCAA Ice Hockey...
  7. Sean Pickett

    NCAA Hockey Financials

    NCAA Hockey Financials When North Dakota announced it was dropping women’s ice hockey a lot of numbers were mentioned as to how much money the program was losing as a reason to justify it being cut. This made me interested in not only how much their women’s program cost, but how much every DI...
  8. Sean Pickett

    NCAA Hockey Financials

    NCAA Hockey Financials As “The Seventeen” here should already know, I’ve been working on compiling the NCAA Financial information for the 30 public schools and 2 service academies. It has taken far longer than I expected, but I now have copies of the reports for all 14 public schools that...
  9. Sean Pickett

    BU 2017 Season Thread III: Terriers falling (into the off season)

    So, was that due to bad coaching or too many selfish players and no TEAM play? :rolleyes: Sean
  10. Sean Pickett

    Postseason Attendance

    I have been researching Hockey East teams' attendance and have the official attendance figures for almost every game back to the start of the 2002 season. One thing I have noticed is almost every postseason series has had lower average attendance than the regular season average. For BU the...
  11. Sean Pickett

    NCAA Goalie Starts, Quality Starts and Really Bad Starts

    A month ago I posted in the BU thread that I was looking into quality starts vs really bad starts for BU goalies. To do that I needed all goalie stats for each NCAA season to determine the mean save percentage for each season. collegehockeystats.com had that information from the 2003-04 season...
  12. Sean Pickett

    Goalie Stats Request

    As part of my BU hockey research I am working on trying to determine good starts and bad starts for every BU goalie. Hockey-Reference.com started using Quality Starts and Really Bad Starts, both developed by Rob Vollman, and I’m working to create rough mean save averages for NCAA DI men’s...
  13. Sean Pickett

    Average Men's Attendance

    Over on the Maine Black Bears - Return to the Glory Years or On to Oblivion? thread Drew S. posted the following: This isn't the first time someone has mentioned attendance issues in these threads, so a while ago I started gathering all of the attendance figures I can find for every current DI...
  14. Sean Pickett

    Hockey East: A New Big 4?

    For most of Hockey East's existence BU, BC, UNH and Maine have been considered the Big 4 by fans. However, in the last ten seasons Maine has finished as a top 4 seed only twice, the last time five seasons ago. New Hampshire has only finished as a top 4 seed once in the last 5 seasons, three...
  15. Sean Pickett

    Disparity of Support Between FBS and non-Football Schools and FCS Schools

    Over in the women's forum an article about Gopher men's attendance came up. In the article revenue for several schools, including Providence, was reported and I was very interested in PC's reported revenue of $3.3 million for the 2014-15 season. In looking for those numbers I got sidetracked by...
  16. Sean Pickett

    Boston University 2015-16 thread part 3 - The Postseason

    Paul Kariya played the first semester for Maine before leaving for the Canadian Olympic Team, but he declined to return to Maine after the Olympics. Mike Dunham also did not return after the Olympics, or at least he did not play against BU in the Hockey East quarterfinals. The Ferraros did...
  17. Sean Pickett

    First College Hockey Game Attended

    I was just recalling a BU exhibition game from 1990 on the 2015-16 schedule thread (maybe it was slightly off topic :)) and that got me to thinking about the first college hockey game I ever saw. Since my other summer thread got some interest I though I would start one posting about the first...
  18. Sean Pickett

    Places I've Seen a College Hockey Game

    Since it's summer, and I'm seeing several "Places I've Seen a College Hockey Game" signatures, I though I would start a thread where everyone can post where they've seen a college hockey game. I'll start: Agganis Arena, Alfond Arena (pre and post 1992 renovation), Appleton Arena, Arrowhead Pond...
  19. Sean Pickett

    NCAA Women's Ice Hockey Records

    Over in the NCAA Women’s DI Hockey Longest Games thread dave1318 posted: When I read it today I realized that the NCAA doesn't have any compiled records for women's ice hockey that I can find like they do for men. I'm thinking of compiling stats for women's ice hockey, but I would need help. If...
  20. Sean Pickett

    3 Frozen Four Tickets for sale - Section 109, Row Z

    Due to a scheduling conflict with my daughter's school events we will not be able to attend this year's Frozen Four. I have 3 tickets in Section 109, Row Z, Seats 15-17 available for $600 plus shipping. Sean Pickett
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