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BU 2021-22: Albie's Great Adventure
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This, right?
Pretty sure. Be happy. UConn has never won a HE tournament game and routinely folds under pressure.
PullTheGoalie
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According to the final standings on the Hockey East site, your Terriers will host Maine in the play in game this week.
They should go on the road after that gutless no character give up effort in a game that actually meant something. I hope the league punished them for that.
Yeah, yeah - we know. Once the 3 way tie was broken by winning percentage between the 3 teams reducing it to BU and UConn, the process should start over. First on the list is head to head. ???
Where are you seeing that? The standings on the HE site (I'm assuming the order shown takes the tiebreakers into account) are: 1) NU 2) UMass 3) Lowell 4) UConn 5) BU
Since the bottom six play, that gives BU a bye. So it's 6-11 7-10 8-9 How are you getting BU hosting Maine???
Season series has nothing to do with it. They finished 4th. We finished 5th. End of story.
This is the tiebreaker procedure according to the Hockey East website:
1. Head-to-head results between the tied teams
2. Number of wins in conference play
3. Best record against the first-place team(s), then the second-place team(s), then the third-place team(s), and so on
4. Coin flip
If more than two teams finish in a tie, the same criteria will be applied to reduce the number of teams tied, and then the process will commence again. In the event that teams have an uneven amount of games against other opponents in a three-way (or more) tie, winning percentage will be the tiebreaker.
From what I can see, BU/UConn played 3 games vs each other; Merrimack played 2 each vs BU and UConn. That would qualify for the "uneven amount of games against other opponents in the three-way tie." Which means that the team with the best winning percentage gets the nod. Here are the respective winning percentages: UConn: 14-10-0 .583 BU: 13-8-3 .542 Merrimack: 13-11-0 .542 So that means UConn gets fourth. I presume they then repeated everything between BU and Merrimack to decide 5th vs 6th (which I'm not going to get into now). I mean, this gets ridiculous after a while..."winning percentage" is wins divided by total games played. I'm not sure if the broke it down further since both BU and Merrimack won 13 out of 24, but Merrimack had 11 losses while BU had 8 losses and 3 ties (so did they give BU more credit for the ties because they weren't losses or did they go through the entire head-to-head again between BU and Merrimack after UConn qualified for 5th?)
Does it matter? If we played like we played tonight it will be our last game of the season. I don't care if UConn has never won a HE playoff game or not.
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so head to head with 3 teams left BU/Uconn both 3-2
That eliminates Merrimack
Then must have gone to tiebraker 2--wins in conference as BU was 2-1 vs CT
Sean Pickett
2009 NCAA Champions
The league was not clear regarding the tiebreaker procedures. Last week I questioned if the league would consider regulation wins vs overtime wins differently when applying the second tiebreaker. The answer is still unknown, but the likely answer is yes. That is because for the first tiebreaker they are considering regulation wins different from overtime wins. Here is how they broke and seeded the 3 teams:
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[TR]
[TD] [/TD]
[TD] [/TD]
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[TD="class: xl65"]Pts[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65"]Pts%[/TD]
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[TD]Connecticut[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65"]3[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65"]0[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65"]1[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65"]1[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65"]0[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65"]10[/TD]
[TD="class: xl66, align: right"]0.667[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="align: right"]5[/TD]
[TD]Boston University[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65"]2[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65"]1[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65"]2[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65"]0[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65"]0[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65"]8[/TD]
[TD="class: xl66, align: right"]0.533[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="align: right"]6[/TD]
[TD]Merrimack[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65"]1[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65"]0[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65"]3[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65"]0[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65"]0[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65"]3[/TD]
[TD="class: xl66, align: right"]0.250[/TD]
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As can be seen the first tiebreaker neatly sorts them into 4, 5, & 6 with no need to do another round of head-to-head between BU and UConn.
So, Hockey East didn't clarify that 1) the percentage they would use was a points percentage and 2) if a multi-way tie was clearly sorted with one round no further rounds would occur.
Sean
Makes zero sense to me how this came out to UConn ahead of BU.
Carmine Scarpaglia
My bad.
Mike McMahon recently asked the league about this and they said a win is a win. No difference between OT win and regulation win.
More details on Hockey East's tie-breakers and multiple scenarios detailed (themackreport.com)
Some other info below that if you click on the link, in regards to 3-way ties and Pts%.
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Thanks for the explanation. The greater point is that BU had their destiny in their own hands and apparently was either unaware, unprepared, or who knows what? Either way, they have nobody else to blame.
mookie1995
there's a good buck in that racket.
Oh no, we stink again
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