Re: The 2014 Edition of My Team Got Screwed by the Selection Committee Thread
Even though there are several teams that did make it some still got screwed. I can't believe St. Norbert has to play a play-in game. They have to be the number 1 overall seed and if not how does Babson get that honor??? Bowdin traveling to the land of OZ again. The committee couldn't have sent someone else in the east. It would have been to have a spy camera in the smoked filled room to see how the teams finished in the rankings. So much for transparence. Maybe the day will come where the selection process mirrors the DI process where everyone who in on a bubble knows what has to happen to include how many goals they need to score.
Oswego '88
It appears to me to be really easy to see what the rankings were and why the bracket is set up the way it is.
Arguably the top 5 teams in the country are St. Norbert, St. Thomas, Stevens-Point, Adrian, and Babson. The five teams that get a bye and don't have to play Wednesday, are those five, makes sense. Geneseo and Norwich had a chance to get into that top 5 by winning last weekend, but they didn't, Oswego doesn't match up with any of those five either based on the numbers.
As for the east matchups/rankings, I thought Geneseo and Norwich was a toss up who should be higher, came down to which criteria the committee valued the most and they had Geneseo higher apparently. Oswego did beat Geneseo on Saturday, but by the numbers Geneseo still had the advantage over them with the better Win%, COP, L25, & H2H. So while you might not agree with it, it's fairly easy to see why they went with a top 4 in the east of 1.Babson 2.Geneseo 3.Norwich 4.Oswego. Bowdoin is clearly the #5 seed, followed by Salem St. and Nichols. So it only makes sense that Bowdoin would go to Oswego, Salem St. to Norwich, and Nichols to Geneseo.
The thing that I think cost Trinity their spot is that Williams lost in the semi-final Saturday and would have dropped out of the rankings, and were replaced by either Amherst or UMass Boston likely. Trinity's record vs. ranked opp. would have been 0-2 if Amherst was in or 0-0 if UMB was in, either way they have 0 wins against ranked teams all year, along with the worst SOS of all the teams in consideration, I think those two facts had to raise some question as to how difficult their schedule was compared to say Geneseo who played 6 ranked opponents or Norwich with multiple wins against ranked teams.
You don't have to agree with the selection committee's decisions, but I think it is very easy to figure out what their thinking was and why they set the bracket the way they did.
