USCHO Women's Hockey Posters Poll

[TonyTheTiger20]

Re: USCHO Women's Hockey Posters Poll

...has been thoroughly discredited.

oh

[ARM]

Re: USCHO Women's Hockey Posters Poll

It does not throw out games vs weak teams, so that is where it may skew things a bit compared to RPI etc. It just looks at Wins and Losses, not margins of victory.

RPI, KRACH, and Rutter all just look at wins and losses, not margin of victory. And the reason RPI has to throw out games against weak teams is because it is so flawed that it wants to penalize a team for winning those games. While I don't think UND is actually the third-best team, it has defeated each of the top three, so I think NoDak is better than the 10th team, for sure.

For comparison, Robin Locke does consider margin of victory in his rankings, and he has UND at No. 4:
http://it.stlawu.edu/~chodr/wchodr/current.html

[Eeyore]

Re: USCHO Women's Hockey Posters Poll

and there is your problem. As I mentioned previously in another thread, predicting human behavior based upon a mathematical model, though once in vogue, has been thoroughly discredited.

This will come as a surprise to actuaries.

[TonyTheTiger20]

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Carrying on with the poster's poll this week. Any lurkers around for the NCAA tournament are welcome to join in.

1) Minnesota -- Dumb

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2) Clarkson -- Didn't see that coming. Still pretty close with Wisconsin.

3) Wisconsin -- Not really playing all that great lately.

4) Cornell -- Didn't see that coming. Quality title win in a quality conference.

5) Boston College -- Facepalm

6) Harvard -- I don't really have anything new to add on them this week, pretty much the same story as it has been the last few. Nothing special.

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7) North Dakota -- Didn't expect them to beat Wisconsin. But Wisconsin seems to be in a bit of a slump. Still, really really nice win.

8) Quinnipiac -- If you didn't look at the standings every week and physically see them sitting on the tournament bubble you wouldn't have even known they were there.

9) Mercyhurst -- Dominated RIT in the loss, but it's RIT, so yeah.

10) Boston University -- Jerks.

[Eeyore]

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1) Minnesota
2) Clarkson
3) Wisconsin
4) Cornell
5) BC
6) North Dakota
7) Harvard
8) Quinnipiac
9) Boston University
10) Mercyhurst

[mattj711]

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1) Minnesota
2T) Wisconsin
2T) Clarkson
4) Cornell
5) BC
6) North Dakota
7) Harvard
8) Mercyhurst
9) Quinnipiac
10) Boston University

[CrazyDave]

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1) Minnesota
2) Clarkson
3) Cornell
4) Wisconsin
5) Boston College
6) Harvard
7) North Dakota
8) Mercyhurst
9) Quinnipiac
10) Boston University

[ManBehindTheCurtain]

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1) Minnesota
2) Cornell
3) Clarkson
4) Wisconsin
5) Harvard
6) Boston College
7) Mercyhurst
8) Boston University
9) doesn't matter
10) no one cares anymore

[OnMAA]

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1) Minnesota
2) Cornell
3) Clarkson
4) Wisconsin
5) Harvard
6) Boston College
7) Mercyhurst
8) Boston University
9) doesn't matter
10) no one cares anymore

THIS! Bracket Set. Poll season over. Let the tourney begin. May the best team win.

[Cali]

1) minnesota
2) cornell
3) clarkson
4) wisconsin
5) harvard
6) boston college
7) mercyhurst
8) boston university
9) doesn't matter
10) RIT

fyp!!

[wwhyte]

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1) RIT -- they're the only school that we're certain will end the season with a win.
2) North Dakota.

[joegrav]

Re: USCHO Women's Hockey Posters Poll

1) RIT -- they're the only school that we're certain will end the season with a win.
2) North Dakota.

Well, them and Minnesota. lol

[wwhyte]

Re: USCHO Women's Hockey Posters Poll

Well, them and Minnesota. lol

BU are taking Minnesota down. You can take that to the bank.

[TonyTheTiger20]

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BU are taking Minnesota down. You can take that to the bank.

Yeah, for a withdrawal, so you can pay your bookie

[Cali]

1) RIT -- they're the only school that we're certain will end the season with a win.

Not just one, but 7.