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NCAA Hockey - 2023/24 **Insert Witty Tagline**

Lindenwood is an interesting team. Skill isn’t there, speed isn’t there, shots on goal have a huge disparity, but they don’t get blown out. 4-0 Friday but it was 2-0 until the last three minutes and 2-0 tonight.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
Lindenwood is an interesting team. Skill isn’t there, speed isn’t there, shots on goal have a huge disparity, but they don’t get blown out. 4-0 Friday but it was 2-0 until the last three minutes and 2-0 tonight.
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When we played them last season they were much better than expected. I think they are a well run program that hopefully grows.
 
Bronco said:
When we played them last season they were much better than expected. I think they are a well run program that hopefully grows.
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I hope they can find a conference soon. But at this point the NCHC is set at 10 and the CCHA would’ve taken them if they wanted them before Augustana popped up.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
I hope they can find a conference soon. But at this point the NCHC is set at 10 and the CCHA would’ve taken them if they wanted them before Augustana popped up.
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Yeah if the CCHA doesn't accept them then I don't see a conference for them anytime soon. NCHC and B10 aren't going to accept a school with no history that is outside of typical recruiting hotbeds. That said, I keep hearing about how well youth hockey is going in St. Louis. Hopefully Lindenwood gets it to work out.
 
Their goalie was supposed to be part of the Gopher tandem, but he had a pretty bad season in the USHL last year. I think Motzko was a little scared off of him and welcomed Souliere from the portal because of it.
 
state of hockey said:
Their goalie was supposed to be part of the Gopher tandem, but he had a pretty bad season in the USHL last year. I think Motzko was a little scared off of him and welcomed Souliere from the portal because of it.
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That’s funny, because my thought today was that he’s destined for the portal after this year to a bigger school. He was fantastic. 56 or so saves last night and the second goal was because his own player accidentally shot it at him trying to get it away from an MSU player. Another strong game tonight, though State didn’t put up as many shots.
 
Bronco said:
Yeah if the CCHA doesn't accept them then I don't see a conference for them anytime soon. NCHC and B10 aren't going to accept a school with no history that is outside of typical recruiting hotbeds. That said, I keep hearing about how well youth hockey is going in St. Louis. Hopefully Lindenwood gets it to work out.
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Could be part of a potential Western Conference with UAA and UAF. Kinda depends if there's other schools willing to jump, Simon Fraser being an obvious candidate right now.
 
Jimjamesak said:
Could be part of a potential Western Conference with UAA and UAF. Kinda depends if there's other schools willing to jump, Simon Fraser being an obvious candidate right now.
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I haven't been keeping up, but has the NCAA still prohibited new single-sport conferences?
 
Nothing profound to say, just want to bump spam off the first page.

CHN added the Pairwise rankings to their app today.

Current field would be:
1 BC vs 29 Bentley
8 Minnesota vs 9 Denver

2 Michigan State vs 15 Cornell
7 St Cloud vs 10 BU

3 Maine vs 14 Colorado College
6 Michigan vs 11 Providence

4 Dartmouth vs 13 Minnesota State
5 WMU vs 12 Lowell
 
I'm still convinced CHN and USCHO calculate RPI wrong.

I cannot reconcile their calcs with each other or my calcs. I've manually calculated an entire team's RPI so I know for a fact it's not my formulas. It's either:
1. Incorrect OT weighting
2. Incorrect home/away weighting
3. Not using eligible teams only
 
dxmnkd316 said:
I'm still convinced CHN and USCHO calculate RPI wrong.

I cannot reconcile their calcs with each other or my calcs. I've manually calculated an entire team's RPI so I know for a fact it's not my formulas. It's either:
1. Incorrect OT weighting
2. Incorrect home/away weighting
3. Not using eligible teams only
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Possibly stupid questions:

1. How do you know your calculation is more correct and/or
2. Is there another more official entity that publishes the actual formula with in-season updates using it?
 
Slap Shot said:
Possibly stupid questions:

1. How do you know your calculation is more correct and/or
2. Is there another more official entity that publishes the actual formula with in-season updates using it?
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I'll start with 2. The answer is no. They get a feed from USCHO on their website, but no matter what I do I can't get the numbers to square.

for 1, I've researched the rules and gone through emails obtained through the press and tried to parse those. Additionally I've read through RPI explainers about how to calculate overtimes and away/home weighting.

I do not know mine are better. However, given the explainers and how the NCAA has worded their releases, I'm more confident in my numbers. But then again, I'm biased. If I had to guess, I'd say CHN's were more accurate given their explainers and the depth of the calculation the go through. I can also get the numbers closer to theirs. But it involves breaking one of their own rules!
 
dxmnkd316 said:
I'll start with 2. The answer is no. They get a feed from USCHO on their website, but no matter what I do I can't get the numbers to square.

for 1, I've researched the rules and gone through emails obtained through the press and tried to parse those. Additionally I've read through RPI explainers about how to calculate overtimes and away/home weighting.

I do not know mine are better. However, given the explainers and how the NCAA has worded their releases, I'm more confident in my numbers. But then again, I'm biased. If I had to guess, I'd say CHN's were more accurate given their explainers and the depth of the calculation the go through. I can also get the numbers closer to theirs. But it involves breaking one of their own rules!
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Ok thanks and given your history here I wasn't so much doubting you as curious.
 
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