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There seems to be a big difference between first-half BU and second-half BU, at least in terms of results. The Terriers were winning all the close ones in the first half, but they've either slipped a bit or improved less than others in 2014. Vermont is playing its best hockey now, so in terms of a one-shot deal, I don't see much separation between the BU and UVM.
And BC and UM are playing on neutral ice, while Tech and 'Hurst are at home.
Such oddities lurk in the recesses of my mind every time I type that BC should win something. Either it demonstrates how much more emphasis the Eagles place on the national tourney, or the Hockey East field has been more daunting than we knew over the years.
I'm not even referring to their RPI -- BC should stay ahead in RPI if they both win their conference -- but Harvard will flip with BC because they will have the CoOpp and TUC comparison points.
Well, I mean, honestly, that's what happens when you play in the premier women's college hockey conference. You know what they say: "We can't all play cupcakes like St. Cloud every week."*
A lot of athletes refer to themselves in the third person. TTT refers to himself in third person plural. He is correct about St. Cloud State, however. It's offense struggled so mightily that it would have had a hard time finishing higher than second in Hockey East.
As requested by robertearle and others, I've had a question on COP into the chair of the selection committee for a while, and she responded today. Starting this season, COP has been changed to use the same logic as the men's calculation: calculate a percentage for each common opponent separately and then add them up, rather than adding up the records and calculating one winning percentage as was done in the past. Thus, the way USCHO computed COP last year for St. Lawrence compared to North Dakota was correct at the time, but because the committee has the latitude to give more weight to some other component, RPI in that case, UND took the comparison from SLU and was the final at-large team rather than Wisconsin. This season, COP will shake out in what most would consider to be a more equitable fashion, so a team won't be hurt by playing more of its common opponent games against a tougher team.
Are you new here?Take a look at KRACH. Hockey East has four teams that badly lag St. Cloud, which of course finished last in the WCHA. And St. Cloud beat Northeastern and held BU to just two goals, back when BU was playing well.
When you compare conferences, even the CHA has two teams that would have finished ahead of BU, Hockey East's second best team. Mercyhurst and Robert Morris' KRACH ratings are both more than 50% better than BU's and are double that of Northeastern's, Hockey East's third best team.
No, I know how it works. But seriously, Grant, you must realize that it would be kind of a joke if more than one Hockey East team gets to play in the NCAA's this year.
You are a forum sage, good sir.
We've gone over this a thousand times but if Minnesota or Wisconsin had to go through the brutal Hockey East schedule, week after week, in a schedule where anyone can beat anyone due to the high-end talent up and down the conference, they would be so worn out by the end of the year that they would come up short every time come tournament time. It's just science and math.