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Fun With Numbers '14-'15: USCHO Posters Poll, Pairwise What-Ifs, and Other Goodies

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TonyTheTiger20 said:
Thanks.

This all makes no sense. lol
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I think it is all driven by the classification of other sports in their athletic departments. Nobody plans around women's ice hockey, strange as that seems to me. ;)
 
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It's all very silly. Yale's win over Sacred Heart is actually helping Yale's RPI. I assumed it would be one of those "Bad wins" that gets thrown out, but since those D1/D2 teams only play each other, their opponent's winning percentage/oppopp winning percentage is actually good.

Ridiculous.
 
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TonyTheTiger20 said:
It's all very silly. Yale's win over Sacred Heart is actually helping Yale's RPI. I assumed it would be one of those "Bad wins" that gets thrown out, but since those D1/D2 teams only play each other, their opponent's winning percentage/oppopp winning percentage is actually good.

Ridiculous.
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It may ultimately be ignored because Sacred Heard doesn't play the requisite 20 D-I opponents. I'm not sure where that threshold is applied and where it isn't.
 
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ARM said:
It may ultimately be ignored because Sacred Heard doesn't play the requisite 20 D-I opponents. I'm not sure where that threshold is applied and where it isn't.
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Is that actually a rule? Where? That would make things

Right now USCHO is counting the game. Sacred Heart only ends up playing like 8 games against D1/D2 opponents. So, at the end of the season will USCHO drop it? Or what?

I only really care because of my PWR sheet which I fixed this morning to sync up to USCHO (added to the first post of this thread).
 
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TonyTheTiger20 said:
Ah no the game counts in the PWR
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I don't know that for sure. How valid is a team like Sacred Heart's opponents winning percentage, if it is based on a handful of games versus teams that don't show up anywhere else for other teams' RPIs? I'd guess that in practice, the Yale/Sacred Heart game gets thrown out by the committee.
 
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ARM said:
I don't know that for sure. How valid is a team like Sacred Heart's opponents winning percentage, if it is based on a handful of games versus teams that don't show up anywhere else for other teams' RPIs? I'd guess that in practice, the Yale/Sacred Heart game gets thrown out by the committee.
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Do you mean how valid is it statistically or how valid is it in the mind of the NCAA? I lack confidence that the committee will understand the problem.
 
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ARM said:
I don't know that for sure. How valid is a team like Sacred Heart's opponents winning percentage, if it is based on a handful of games versus teams that don't show up anywhere else for other teams' RPIs? I'd guess that in practice, the Yale/Sacred Heart game gets thrown out by the committee.
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A month or two ago I asked one of the guys on the committee for clarification, he was pretty clear:

All games against Division I/II competition will be reflected in the RPI. However, teams that do not play a minimum of 20 games against DI/DII opponents and have an RPI at or above 50.00 are not eligible for selection into the championship.
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Based upon this weekend's results, I think we can safely conclude that BC would slot in about third in the WCHA, 2-3 games back of Minnesota.
 
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Eeyore said:
Based upon this weekend's results, I think we can safely conclude that BC would slot in about third in the WCHA, 2-3 games back of Minnesota.
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Mmm, "safely".
 
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TonyTheTiger20 said:
A month or two ago I asked one of the guys on the committee for clarification, he was pretty clear:
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Then why were you asking me so that I had to go searching for through the obscure NCAA verbiage if you already knew? :confused: Sandbagger! :mad:
 
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Eeyore said:
Based upon results against Cornell, BC seems pretty hard to distinguish from UMD.
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Based upon results against UCONN, BC seems pretty easy to distinguish from UMD.
 
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1. Boston College - This weakend: BC 12 Conncake 1
2. Minnesota - Another weakend: Minn 9 Minnicake State 1 keeps them #2
3. Wisconsin - Weakend #3: Badgers claw St Cloudcake 7-0
4. Quinnipiac - A qualty win and a tie based on great d, revealing a suspect offense
5. Boston U- Ties the Crimson, plays New Hamcake today
6. UMD - Takes Cornell to the woodshed 9-2 moves them up
7. Bemidji - An off weekend
8. Clarkson - Loses to Quinny, beats Prinny drops them a notch
9. Harvard - A tie with BU, still too early in their season to move them up
10. Mercyhurst - I know I know but who do you put here

Dropped like a lead balloon: Cornell
 
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