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2026 NCAA Women's Hockey NPI Tournament Predictor

TonyTheTiger20

TonyTheTiger20

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It's that time of year! I've released the 2026 version of the NCAA Women's Hockey Tournament Predictor. Input your predictions for the women's hockey conference tournaments and see its results on the final NPI rankings. Here's the link: https://www.bcinterruption.com/bost...6-ncaa-womens-hockey-tournament-npi-predictor

Note that if you want to save yourself a ton of clicks, you can check off the "Autofill Higher Seeds?" box on the right.

If you'd like, I'd be happy to email anyone an offline copy which is a little easier to deal with on a laptop. Email me at grant dot salzano at gmail if you're interested.

One quick caveat: I know there's still one more game this weekend, SCSU @ UW. I didn't really feel like waiting until tomorrow to release this, so I just assumed a Wisconsin regulation win. Apologies to SCSU for the disrespect and to UW for what is almost certainly the kiss of death.

As always, there are quite a few updates to pull in every year so it's always possible there are some bugs. Reach out to me if you find any issues and I'll take care of them ASAP.
 
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TonyTheTiger20 said:
It's that time of year! I've released the 2026 version of the NCAA Women's Hockey Tournament Predictor. Input your predictions for the women's hockey conference tournaments and see its results on the final NPI rankings. Here's the link: https://www.bcinterruption.com/bost...6-ncaa-womens-hockey-tournament-npi-predictor

Note that if you want to save yourself a ton of clicks, you can check off the "Autofill Higher Seeds?" box on the right.

If you'd like, I'd be happy to email anyone an offline copy which is a little easier to deal with on a laptop. Email me at grant dot salzano at gmail if you're interested.

One quick caveat: I know there's still one more game this weekend, SCSU @ UW. I didn't really feel like waiting until tomorrow to release this, so I just assumed a Wisconsin regulation win. Apologies to SCSU for the disrespect and to UW for what is almost certainly the kiss of death.

As always, there are quite a few updates to pull in every year so it's always possible there are some bugs. Reach out to me if you find any issues and I'll take care of them ASAP.
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Probably due to the number of "settling iterations", and when to quit, but your numbers vs the USCHO's numbers are generally a bit off, to the point that you have UCONN at #6 and Quinnipiac at #7, while USCHO has them reversed. With the difference down in the third, fourth, even fifth digit.

Just an FYI.
 
robertearle said:
Probably due to the number of "settling iterations", and when to quit, but your numbers vs the USCHO's numbers are generally a bit off, to the point that you have UCONN at #6 and Quinnipiac at #7, while USCHO has them reversed. With the difference down in the third, fourth, even fifth digit.

Just an FYI.
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It's a little bit misleading the way I have it setup for Predictor Season -- as-is, it won't quite match USCHO right now.

The way I have the calculator set up, it won't add in *any* conference tournament results until you fill in the complete bracket (I do this so it doesn't iterate every time you fill in another dropdown). Since the AHA has already played tournament games, those games aren't being included in the NPI calcs because they are hidden in the background until the bracket is filled out. If you go into the "Results" tab you'll see that I have them manually removed there so they don't double count.

ECAC has also played tournament games, but those *are* being counted on the Results tab because the ECAC first round isn't included in my bracket predictor.

Before I made those adjustments though, I did verify that I had a full match with USCHO, and all teams matched down to all decimal places that USCHO displays -- so we should be good.

This is the kind of stuff I very much appreciate getting called out so I can make sure there's nothing I missed, so thank you and keep 'em coming!
 
TonyTheTiger20 said:
I've updated the Predictor with the results so far of the quarterfinal (and AHA semifinal) rounds. Way fewer inputs required now!
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Thanks for this work, Grant! I am not sure whether you caught this on the WCHA playoffs thread, but the USCHO box score was (initially) incorrect and UMD lost in OT yesterday. The game was really 2-1 Mankato. So, they are still playing for the series today.
 
Is it any surprise that schools of these sizes (undergrad stats) dominate the top? Credit to tiny Clarkson and a rare few others for maintaining some annual competitiveness:

University of Wisconsin-Madison:
36,000

Ohio State University:
47,000

Penn State University (main campus):
46,000

Northeastern University:
21,000

University of Connecticut:
19,000

University of Minnesota (Twin Cities):
35,000
 
TchrBill said:
Is it any surprise that schools of these sizes (undergrad stats) dominate the top? Credit to tiny Clarkson and a rare few others for maintaining some annual competitiveness:

University of Wisconsin-Madison:
36,000

Ohio State University:
47,000

Penn State University (main campus):
46,000

Northeastern University:
21,000

University of Connecticut:
19,000

University of Minnesota (Twin Cities):
35,000
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Your point is very true regarding the WCHA Big Ten schools. After that, UMD is half of the size of Northeastern or UConn, but over the years has done more dominating than either Huskies or PSU. Size and $$$ matters, but I'm not sure that all of the larger schools like Syracuse spend as much as schools that are smaller, like Mercyhurst.
 
Fire up the predictor. Let it do the 'autofill' of the picks. Have Minnesota beat Ohio State in the WCHA semi, and then beat Wisconsin in the final, And have UConn beat Northeastern in the HE final.

Wisconsin and Ohio State in an absolute flat-footed tie for the #1 seed. LOL
 
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