Re: Yale - The best team in the country?
Why, certainly!
HEAL, developed by Wayne T. Smith, takes into account not only how many games a team has won, but which opponents they have beaten (you know, kind of like factoring in strength of schedule).
CHODR (College Hockey Offensive/Defensive Rankings) was developed by Dr. Robin Lock at St. Lawrence University. It takes into account the actual score of each game as well as home-ice advantage. The product of Team A's offensive rating and Team B's defensive rating estimates the number of goals Team A will score on Team B.
CCHP, developed by Eric Carlson at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, uses a similar approach to CHODR, but applies an additive model rather than a multiplicative model.
There are a couple of rankings actually used by the NCAA in tournament placement. It's a little early for them to be firm determinations of who's in the tournament and who's not, but here they are as they currently exist - the
Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) and the
PairWise Rankings.
And finally,
KRACH is considered one of the most objective rankings out there. It uses the Bradley-Terry method (logistic regression). It means that KRACH, unlike many ratings (including RPI), cannot easily be distorted by teams with strong records against weak opposition.
(KRACH can also be adjusted for home-ice advantage, known as
KASA.)
Whoops, that was more than three. My bad.
Oh, I'm going to love to see you point out where I've attacked anyone. Using facts and logic doesn't count, junior.
I think you are misguided at best if you think people are "butthurt" about anything college hockey related in freaking early December.
I make the comment only based on my observations. Plenty of people, including yourself, seem very stirred up over this.
The point remains, Yale has played no one and hasn't proven themselves.
Subjective argument. If you were to make this into an objective argument, you'd just be coming right back to the strength of schedule point that has already been made and refuted.
Yale supporters and even some resident ECAC tards say, "Yale has not proven they are UNworthy of being the top team."
Cute, using an epithet to cast doubt on the veracity of the statement. Very interesting literary device you use there.
Everyone else is saying, "Beat someone that is a legitimate team to show you ARE worthy." (Note: big problem here is when some tard goes... "Yea but they beat nationally ranked Union" and then everyone with a brain that follows a real league shakes their head)
Again, the use of putdowns to try to make a point that, if it could be made, would be better made using objective language. I'm sorry that Union isn't BU and/or doesn't play in Hockey East. It doesn't mean they can't potentially be considered a very solid program, as most objective observers are already saying.
It's as simple as that. Glass half-full vs. glass half-empty. Boise State of college hockey. I'll take the SEC team that goes 11-1 over an undefeated Boise any day as would anyone outside of Idaho. You see what I'm saying here?
No, I don't, because A) there are plenty of people outside of Idaho that
felt the Broncos, when they were undefeated, were the best team in college football, and B) the comparison to Boise State is difficult to make because Boise wasn't popping up at the top of any objective ranking system at any time.
