2015 Off Season banter. New coaches, teams, players, etc. Have fun!

[UCBadger]

Re: 2015 Off Season banter. New coaches, teams, players, etc. Have fun!

Okay ... I don't claim to be a statistician, but if the cost of living index in Middlebury VT is 119.60, wouldn't the cost of living be 19.6% greater than the national average NOT 15.7% ?? Or do these two groups not use the same set of metrics to measure cost of living??

Figures don't lie, but liars can.........

[norm1909]

Re: 2015 Off Season banter. New coaches, teams, players, etc. Have fun!

I have a question not related to hockey - has anyone ever heard of baseball innings referred to as "frames"?

[joecct]

Re: 2015 Off Season banter. New coaches, teams, players, etc. Have fun!

I have a question not related to hockey - has anyone ever heard of baseball innings referred to as "frames"?

Yes.

Relates, I guess, to the inning by inning score which would be a 3 x whatever table.

[LakerEagleLover]

I have a question not related to hockey - has anyone ever heard of baseball innings referred to as "frames"?

Yes

[norm1909]

Re: 2015 Off Season banter. New coaches, teams, players, etc. Have fun!

Yes.

Relates, I guess, to the inning by inning score which would be a 3 x whatever table.

I've heard it used in bowling and billiards and in baseball to "frame a pitch" - to make it appear to have passed through the strike zone, this is a first for me, but I guess it is used in place of inning

[SUNYACWRITERS]

Re: 2015 Off Season banter. New coaches, teams, players, etc. Have fun!

Conference Rankings:

**Formula**

X= Average KRACH ranking of each team in conference
Y= Average SOS ranking of each team in conference
Z= the sum of X + Y
R = Conference Average

X=Y / 2 = Z
Z / 2 = R


Conferences with Automatic Bids:

NESCAC: 2.255
SUNYAC: 3.25061
MIAC: 3.32778
NCHA: 3.815
ECAC-E: 5.25
ECAC-NE: 6.976
MASCAC: 9.571

Pool C Conferences:

ECAC-W: 3.18
WIAC: 4.38


Thoughts??

[SUNYACWRITERS]

Re: 2015 Off Season banter. New coaches, teams, players, etc. Have fun!

Hypothetical Future Conference Re-alignment: Some Conferences are split into two divisions because the switch in number of games from 25 to 23. Still Leaving space for Out of Conference Games.

2016-2017:

ECAC-West: (8) Will turn ECAC-West into Auto-Bid
Elmira
Hobart
Lebanon Valley College
Manhattanville
Nazareth
Neumann
Utica College
Stevenson





ECAC-NE: (10) Each division opponent plays each other twice, cross division once.
Central Division
Becker
Curry College
Daniel Webster
Endicott College
Western New England
South Division:
Johnson & Wales
Nichols College
Salve Regina
Suffolk
Wentworth

ECAC-East: (10) Each division opponent plays each other twice, cross division once.
North Division:
Castleton
Norwich
St. Michael’s
Southern Maine
University of New England
South Division:
Babson
New England College
St. Anselm
Skidmore
UMass-Boston

MASCAC: (8)
Fitchburg State
Framingham State
UMass- Dartmouth
Plymouth State
Salem State
Westfield State
Worcester State
Western Connecticut State

NESCAC: (10) Each division opponent plays each other twice, cross division once.
Hebert Division:
Bowdoin
Middlebury
Trinity
Colby
Hamilton


Stillman Division:
Amherst
Tufts
Williams
Connecticut College
Wesleyan

SUNYAC: (10) Each division opponent plays each other twice, cross division once.
East Division:
Plattsburgh
Potsdam
Canton
Oswego
Morrisville
West Division:
Cortland
Brockport
Geneseo
Buffalo State
Fredonia

Mid-West College Hockey Conference: (8) Automatic Bid
Lawrence
Marian
Northland
Wisconsin- Eau Claire
Wisconsin- Stevens Point
Wisconsin- River Falls
Wisconsin- Stout
Wisconsin- Superior

NCHA: (8)
Adrian
St. Norbert
Lake Forrest
MSOE
St. Scholastica
Concordia (WI)
Finlandia
Aurora

MIAC: (9)
St.Thomas
Saint Mary’s
Concordia (MN)
Augsburg
Hamline
Saint John’s
Gustavus Adolphus
St. Olaf
Bethel




New NCAA tournament format:

NESCAC Champion
SUNYAC Champion
ECAC-E Champion
ECAC-NE Champion
ECAC-W Champion
MASCAC Champion
MWHC Champion
MIAC Champion
NCHA Champion

7 At-Large Bids:

What If?

What the 2015 tournament would have looked like under this format


Amherst
(16) Plymouth State

(5) Plattsburgh
(12) St. Norbert College

(4) Stevens Point
(13) Williams

(8) Oswego
(9) River-Falls


(2) Trinity
(15) Hamline

(6) Norwich
(11) UMass-Boston

(3) Adrian
(14) Nichols

(7) Hobart
(10) Eau-Claire

[CARDS_rule_the_Burgh]

Re: 2015 Off Season banter. New coaches, teams, players, etc. Have fun!

-The 23-game season was shelved for further discussion, and never approved. And I would imagine, if it passed, it would be with the amendment for 24 games sponsored by many top hockey schools (because their justification was "treat us the same as basketball", which is hard to argue against in thr DIII context). But my understanding is we will still have 25 for at least one more season.

-The ECAC-W won't have an autobid until 2017-2018.

-The addition of LVC, Stevenson, and Endicott MIGHT push us to a 12-team tournament, but there is no way we get a 16-team tournament. Access ratios have to be the same across all DIII sports, and right now that is 1/6.5 teams. If anything, with the push to limit costs by cutting a few game from the season, there have been further cost-cutting discussions that involved scrapping Pool C altogether. Win your conference or GTFO.

[NU Pastime]

Re: 2015 Off Season banter. New coaches, teams, players, etc. Have fun!

I've heard it used in bowling and billiards and in baseball to "frame a pitch" - to make it appear to have passed through the strike zone, this is a first for me, but I guess it is used in place of inning

It's slang, not an official term. I believe it is derived from the scoreboards, especially the old manual ones, that had box after box to show the scoring per inning. Looks like picture frames.

[joecct]

Re: 2015 Off Season banter. New coaches, teams, players, etc. Have fun!

SUNYACWRITER

Nice try - I'd redo it with a couple of changes
1. Remove the Saints from the ECAC-E
2. Form the Commonwealth Coast Conference

Then realign as necessary.

[spwood]

Re: 2015 Off Season banter. New coaches, teams, players, etc. Have fun!

I have a question not related to hockey - has anyone ever heard of baseball innings referred to as "frames"?

You hear broadcasters use the term. Starting pitcher threw 7 frames today. I don't think I've ever heard a coach or player use it before...

[VT bragging rights]

Re: 2015 Off Season banter. New coaches, teams, players, etc. Have fun!

-The ECAC-W won't have an autobid until 2017-2018.

The big question is how will the A Autobid be decided
A) Tournament Champion
B) League Champion
C) Fishman'81

[joecct]

Re: 2015 Off Season banter. New coaches, teams, players, etc. Have fun!

The big question is how will the A Autobid be decided
A) Tournament Champion
B) League Champion
C) Fishman'81

If Pool C goes away in all sports to save championship costs, I could imagine the call for, in some circles, for the elimination of conference tournaments to select the AQ. However, that would mean that a boatload of teams would have 0 NCAA chances around MLK Day and they'd be playing out the string. No, I think we'll still see conference tournaments to decide the Pool A bids. Some will do one and done while others will do multi game formats for each round.

[LakerEagleLover]

The big question is how will the A Autobid be decided
A) Tournament Champion
B) League Champion
C) Fishman'81

C). At least he will tell us why......

[norm1909]

Re: 2015 Off Season banter. New coaches, teams, players, etc. Have fun!

C). At least he will tell us why......

Like the Krachety old man that he is