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2019-20 Schedules

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Fishman'81 said:
It's very simple, really.

If there's an AQ to be had, use the biggest sample-size available. If you care to play a conference tourney, fine, but weight those results as you would every RS game.
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In every sport conferences are FREE to choose their method of selecting their champion. Some leagues choose to limit the size of the field in the conference tournament based on season results- 6 of 9 in the SUNYAC, 5 of 9 in the MIAC. Others have allowed all teams to play. Historically the ECAC E - (now the NEHC) included all 8 of their DIII members in. Seeding was based on regular season standings. I recall a painful year in which Norwich lost in the first round to the last seed. So be it.

Very few conferences in any division use something other than a tournament. The Ivy used to not have a tournament in basketball for their AQ selection (they were the last to not have a playoff).

If a majority of the the schools in the UCHC wanted to use that method they could change their rules.

I don't particularly like one-and-done format playoffs, but again that is the choice that has been made. I'd rather see some kind of series format but most leagues don't use that. The situation is not unique to DIII hockey. Could it be changed? Lobby your conference for a change. That is how it can happen. It doesn't come from the NCAA, but from the conferences.
 
NUProf said:
In every sport conferences are FREE to choose their method of selecting their champion. Some leagues choose to limit the size of the field in the conference tournament based on season results- 6 of 9 in the SUNYAC, 5 of 9 in the MIAC. Others have allowed all teams to play. Historically the ECAC E - (now the NEHC) included all 8 of their DIII members in. Seeding was based on regular season standings. I recall a painful year in which Norwich lost in the first round to the last seed. So be it....
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Cue:
If I could turn back the Sands of time...
 
Re: 2019-20 Schedules

NUProf said:
In every sport conferences are FREE to choose their method of selecting their champion. Some leagues choose to limit the size of the field in the conference tournament based on season results- 6 of 9 in the SUNYAC, 5 of 9 in the MIAC. Others have allowed all teams to play. Historically the ECAC E - (now the NEHC) included all 8 of their DIII members in. Seeding was based on regular season standings. I recall a painful year in which Norwich lost in the first round to the last seed. So be it.

Very few conferences in any division use something other than a tournament. The Ivy used to not have a tournament in basketball for their AQ selection (they were the last to not have a playoff).

If a majority of the the schools in the UCHC wanted to use that method they could change their rules.

I don't particularly like one-and-done format playoffs, but again that is the choice that has been made. I'd rather see some kind of series format but most leagues don't use that. The situation is not unique to DIII hockey. Could it be changed? Lobby your conference for a change. That is how it can happen. It doesn't come from the NCAA, but from the conferences.
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OK, but just because any political body lawfully chooses to employ a bad metric, it's still a bad metric, don't you agree?
 
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altazo said:
You absolutely whined about Manhattanville’s age. Now you’re just not telling the truth.

Don’t get swept at home by the worst Adrian team in 10 years, and UC maybe had a shot at an at-large. That was the first weekend of the season, so I guess the first half does count, eh?

You recall wrong yet again. I’m a SNC alum. In ‘14-‘15 they went 20-5-3 and were left out of the NCAA’s and rightfully so, they failed to win their conference tournament.
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Did I b**** this past season? Perhaps I did, but, let's face it, all the better D-3 hockey teams are old by the usual college standards. (Utica, too.)

Speaking of Utica, I didn't reference them in this conversation, because that would have been beside the point.

The tournament AQ's are D-U-M, dum, was my point. And if you were just fine with SNC being bounced from the NCAA's on the basis of that, well...
 
Fishman'81 said:
The tournament AQ's are D-U-M, dum, was my point. And if you were just fine with SNC being bounced from the NCAA's on the basis of that, well...
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Despite winning 20 games that season, SNC was 0-3 vs. Adrian. So yes, I think I think most people associated with the program expected them to be left out. If they clearly weren’t the best team in their own conference that season, why should they be rewarded with an opportunity to compete for a National Championship? Their only hope was earning that playoff AQ.
 
Re: 2019-20 Schedules

Fishman'81 said:
Did I b**** this past season? Perhaps I did, but, let's face it, all the better D-3 hockey teams are old by the usual college standards. (Utica, too.)

Speaking of Utica, I didn't reference them in this conversation, because that would have been beside the point.

The tournament AQ's are D-U-M, dum, was my point. And if you were just fine with SNC being bounced from the NCAA's on the basis of that, well...
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Oh, the irony of spelling dumb wrong... :D
 
Re: 2019-20 Schedules

Fishman'81 said:
Of course the RS is "fun", but how meaningful is it, if it can be negated via a couple of games in March? Every game should mean something, in the context of a full season.

Otherwise, why even play them? The current situation absolutely flies in the face of "common-sense", and it's really impossible to build a logical argument to the contrary. Conference-tourament AQ's are a gimmick, period.

I understand that I'm USCHO's designated D-3 AH, and I'm OK with that, actually, but I have never read anything even resembling a cogent opinion as to why it's just fine for a 5th place team -over the course of a 20+ game RS- to usurp an NCAA berth from another team which has won the conference RS...

(And, I don't expect to, ever.)
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Why stop with the conference tournaments? Your argument is so compelling you've convinced me that they should do away with the NCAA Tournament too! If a whole season's work can be undone by losing a single game in March, I see no reason why they don't just award the NCAA championship to the #1 PWR team at the conclusion of the regular season (henceforth just "the season"). That way every single game matters and an unworthy team will NEVER eliminate a better one in a one-and-done format. Because a tournament will never deliver the 100% objective and logical outcome that a spreadsheet can.
 
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KnightsOfTheRound said:
Why stop with the conference tournaments? Your argument is so compelling you've convinced me that they should do away with the NCAA Tournament too! If a whole season's work can be undone by losing a single game in March, I see no reason why they don't just award the NCAA championship to the #1 PWR team at the conclusion of the regular season (henceforth just "the season"). That way every single game matters and an unworthy team will NEVER eliminate a better one in a one-and-done format. Because a tournament will never deliver the 100% objective and logical outcome that a spreadsheet can.
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I'm sold!!
 
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NUProf said:
I recall a painful year in which Norwich lost in the first round to the last seed. So be it.
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I believe that was the year that the #8, #7, #6 and #4 seeds won...USM came within 2 minutes of hosting the semi-finals/finals as a #5 seed
 
Re: 2019-20 Schedules

KnightsOfTheRound said:
Why stop with the conference tournaments? Your argument is so compelling you've convinced me that they should do away with the NCAA Tournament too! If a whole season's work can be undone by losing a single game in March, I see no reason why they don't just award the NCAA championship to the #1 PWR team at the conclusion of the regular season (henceforth just "the season"). That way every single game matters and an unworthy team will NEVER eliminate a better one in a one-and-done format. Because a tournament will never deliver the 100% objective and logical outcome that a spreadsheet can.
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Yes, you're actually right, and I'm not peeing on your leg nor being facetious here.

In a perfect world, every team would play every other, and there you go as far as the metrics... Thing is, there is so little comparative data between East and West in D-3 that a decent statistical analysis isn't feasible in a National sense.

Look, the NCAA's are great fun, and there's nothing wrong with ONE fun little tournament at the very end of the season, as long as the participants are worthy, and not there by dint of a hot weekend.
 
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Off topic but what happened to d3hockey.com ,tried it for the first time in awhile and go daddy pops up??? are they done??
 
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bakdraft21 said:
Off topic but what happened to d3hockey.com ,tried it for the first time in awhile and go daddy pops up??? are they done??
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Very cryptic tweet from their Twitter

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="und" dir="ltr"><a href="https://t.co/uovcNbgSY9">https://t.co/uovcNbgSY9</a></p>— D3hockey.com (@d3hky) <a href="https://twitter.com/d3hky/status/1163679643729301504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 20, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
Re: 2019-20 Schedules

bakdraft21 said:
Off topic but what happened to d3hockey.com ,tried it for the first time in awhile and go daddy pops up??? are they done??
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Looks like someone forgot to renew the domain name. Which is silly. Even if you don't want to continue, it's cheap to hold onto the name just in case.
 
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