Here we are again, staring another ECAC season in the face and wondering, "What will a stupid computer say is bound to happen at the end of the year? Doesn't it know that literally half the league hasn't even played yet? Don't I usually wait until the first week has come and gone to ask this question? Hasn't lugnut92 worn out this bit?"
Anyway, if you're new here, I make weekly posts simulating out the remaining ECAC season using KRACH. While KRACH does allow us to make predictions about the outcome of the season, it has some caveats: mostly that it only cares about wins and losses, so much so that "ties" aren't in its vocabulary. It also does not include any adjustments for home-ice advantage, injuries, or anything else that may alter a team's working strength for a given game. Also, until there is an unbroken chain of wins such that you can say any team is better than any other team (i.e., Team A is better than team X because A beat B, B beat C, C beat D, etc.), we have to give every team a tie against a hypothetical perfectly average team. All that said, it's by far the easiest rating system to calculate so it's the one I choose to use with my limited skill in Python.
Every week, I run out the remaining season 1,000,000 times, which may sound like a lot until you consider that there are 955,004,950,796,825,236,893,190,701,774,414,011,919,935,138,974,343,129,836,853,841 different ways an ECAC schedule can play out. When it's done, I post the simulated final standings based on average points earned by each team over the many simulations. I also post the likelihood that each team ends in each position or with a given number of points. Finally, I post the likelihood of any given first round matchup. As you can imagine, a lot of this will change wildly over the course of the season, especially as the Ivies play their first games. I'm just ready for meaningful hockey so I'm posting this earlier than usual. So here we go:
Simulated Final Standings (Monte Carlo simulation of 10^62.98 possibilites; n=1,000,000):
Rank and Points breakdown:
Playoff Matchups:
Anyway, if you're new here, I make weekly posts simulating out the remaining ECAC season using KRACH. While KRACH does allow us to make predictions about the outcome of the season, it has some caveats: mostly that it only cares about wins and losses, so much so that "ties" aren't in its vocabulary. It also does not include any adjustments for home-ice advantage, injuries, or anything else that may alter a team's working strength for a given game. Also, until there is an unbroken chain of wins such that you can say any team is better than any other team (i.e., Team A is better than team X because A beat B, B beat C, C beat D, etc.), we have to give every team a tie against a hypothetical perfectly average team. All that said, it's by far the easiest rating system to calculate so it's the one I choose to use with my limited skill in Python.
Every week, I run out the remaining season 1,000,000 times, which may sound like a lot until you consider that there are 955,004,950,796,825,236,893,190,701,774,414,011,919,935,138,974,343,129,836,853,841 different ways an ECAC schedule can play out. When it's done, I post the simulated final standings based on average points earned by each team over the many simulations. I also post the likelihood that each team ends in each position or with a given number of points. Finally, I post the likelihood of any given first round matchup. As you can imagine, a lot of this will change wildly over the course of the season, especially as the Ivies play their first games. I'm just ready for meaningful hockey so I'm posting this earlier than usual. So here we go:
Simulated Final Standings (Monte Carlo simulation of 10^62.98 possibilites; n=1,000,000):
- Quinnipiac
- Union
- Clarkson
- Colgate
————— - Harvard
- Dartmouth
- Yale
- Princeton
————— - Cornell
- Brown
- SLU
- RPI
Rank and Points breakdown:
Code:
| KRACH | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 |Avg Rk |AvgPts
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Qu | 709.1 | [B]60.1[/B] 33.8 5.1 0.8 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 x x | 1.47 | 35.41
Un | 542.9 | 36.9 [B]50.3[/B] 9.9 2.0 0.6 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 x | 1.80 | 33.90
Ck | 210.1 | 2.5 10.8 [B]41.5[/B] 19.2 10.7 6.5 4.1 2.5 1.5 0.7 0.1 0.0 | 3.88 | 27.07
Cg | 119.6 | 0.2 1.4 10.3 [B]16.0[/B] 15.3 14.0 12.7 11.3 9.5 7.1 1.9 0.3 | 6.19 | 22.22
Ha | 100.0 | 0.1 0.6 5.6 10.4 12.1 13.1 13.6 [B]13.8[/B] 13.6 12.2 3.9 0.8 | 7.03 | 20.64
Da | 100.0 | 0.1 0.6 5.5 10.3 12.2 13.1 13.6 [B]13.9[/B] 13.7 12.3 3.9 0.8 | 7.04 | 20.63
Ya | 100.0 | 0.1 0.6 5.5 10.3 12.2 13.1 13.6 [B]13.8[/B] 13.7 12.3 3.9 0.8 | 7.04 | 20.63
Pr | 100.0 | 0.1 0.6 5.5 10.3 12.2 13.2 13.6 [B]13.8[/B] 13.7 12.3 3.9 0.8 | 7.04 | 20.63
Cr | 100.0 | 0.1 0.6 5.6 10.3 12.1 13.1 13.6 [B]13.9[/B] 13.7 12.2 4.0 0.8 | 7.04 | 20.63
Br | 100.0 | 0.1 0.6 5.5 10.3 12.1 13.0 13.6 [B]13.9[/B] 13.8 12.3 4.0 0.8 | 7.05 | 20.62
SL | 33.0 | x 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.5 1.0 2.2 4.7 12.0 [B]43.9[/B] 35.4 | 10.99 | 11.64
RP | 25.6 | x 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.4 0.8 2.2 6.6 30.4 [B]59.4[/B] | 11.43 | 9.97
| KRACH | 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 |AvgPts
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Qu | 709.1 | x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.6 1.0 1.8 3.0 4.6 6.5 8.6 10.6 12.0 [B]12.4[/B] 11.7 9.8 7.5 4.9 2.7 1.3 0.4 0.1 | 35.41
Un | 542.9 | x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.5 0.9 1.6 2.6 4.0 5.8 7.6 9.4 11.0 [B]11.7[/B] 11.5 10.3 8.4 6.2 4.1 2.3 1.1 0.5 0.1 0.0 | 33.90
Ck | 210.1 | x x x x x x x 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.8 1.3 2.0 3.1 4.3 5.8 7.3 8.6 9.7 [B]10.0 10.0[/B] 9.2 7.9 6.4 4.8 3.3 2.2 1.3 0.7 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 | 27.07
Cg | 119.6 | x x x x 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.7 1.3 2.0 3.1 4.3 5.8 7.2 8.5 9.3 [B]9.7[/B] 9.6 8.8 7.8 6.5 5.0 3.6 2.5 1.6 0.9 0.5 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 x x x x | 22.22
Ha | 100.0 | x x 0.0 x 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.6 1.0 1.7 2.6 3.8 5.2 6.6 7.9 9.0 [B]9.7 9.7[/B] 9.2 8.3 6.9 5.5 4.1 2.9 1.9 1.2 0.7 0.4 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 x x x x | 20.64
Da | 100.0 | x x x 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.6 1.0 1.7 2.6 3.8 5.2 6.6 8.0 9.1 9.6 [B]9.8[/B] 9.2 8.3 7.0 5.5 4.1 2.9 1.9 1.2 0.7 0.4 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 x x x | 20.63
Ya | 100.0 | x 0.0 x 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.6 1.0 1.7 2.6 3.8 5.2 6.7 7.9 9.0 9.7 [B]9.8[/B] 9.2 8.2 7.0 5.5 4.2 2.9 1.9 1.2 0.7 0.4 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 x 0.0 x x x | 20.63
Pr | 100.0 | x x 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.6 1.0 1.7 2.6 3.8 5.2 6.7 8.0 9.0 [B]9.7 9.7[/B] 9.2 8.2 7.0 5.5 4.1 2.9 1.9 1.2 0.7 0.4 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 x 0.0 x x x x | 20.63
Cr | 100.0 | x x x 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.6 1.0 1.7 2.6 3.8 5.2 6.6 8.1 9.1 [B]9.7[/B] 9.6 9.2 8.2 7.0 5.5 4.1 2.9 1.9 1.2 0.7 0.4 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 x x x x x | 20.63
Br | 100.0 | x x 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.6 1.0 1.7 2.6 3.9 5.2 6.6 8.0 9.1 [B]9.7 9.7[/B] 9.2 8.2 7.0 5.5 4.1 2.9 1.9 1.2 0.7 0.4 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 x 0.0 x x x x | 20.62
SL | 33.0 | 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.5 1.1 2.0 3.5 5.2 7.2 9.0 10.3 [B]10.9[/B] 10.8 9.9 8.4 6.8 5.1 3.6 2.4 1.5 0.9 0.5 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 x x x x x x x x x x x x | 11.64
RP | 25.6 | 0.0 0.2 0.6 1.3 2.6 4.4 6.6 8.7 10.4 11.4 [B]11.5[/B] 10.6 9.2 7.3 5.5 3.8 2.6 1.6 0.9 0.5 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x | 9.97
[b]Bold[/b] is each team's most likely outcome.
0.0 means the outcome occurred, but fewer than 500 times.
x means the outcome never occurred.
Playoff Matchups:
Code:
| Qu Un Ck Cg Ha Da Ya Pr Cr Br SL RP | BYE
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Qu | x 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 | 99.7
Un | x 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.4 | 99.1
Ck | 0.0 0.0 0.6 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 7.3 8.7 | 73.9
Cg | 0.0 0.0 0.3 4.1 4.2 4.1 4.2 4.1 4.2 13.6 14.5 | 27.8
Ha | 0.0 0.0 0.3 2.9 4.9 4.9 4.9 4.9 5.0 12.5 12.4 | 16.7
Da | 0.0 0.0 0.3 3.0 4.9 4.9 4.9 4.9 5.0 12.4 12.4 | 16.5
Ya | 0.0 0.0 0.3 2.9 4.9 4.9 4.9 4.9 4.9 12.4 12.5 | 16.5
Pr | 0.0 0.0 0.3 3.0 4.9 5.0 4.9 4.9 4.9 12.5 12.4 | 16.6
Cr | 0.0 0.0 0.3 3.0 4.9 4.9 4.9 4.9 5.0 12.4 12.5 | 16.6
Br | x 0.0 0.3 2.9 4.9 4.9 5.0 4.9 5.0 12.4 12.4 | 16.4
SL | x 0.0 0.0 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.3 | 0.1
RP | x x 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 | 0.0
Hosts on the left, visitors across the top.