Re: 2017 Pairwise thread
I'm going to disagree with the suggestion the current system is "obviously broken." To the contrary, I think the current system for college hockey has worked remarkably well.
The current system was installed for the 2002-03 season, when we first went to 16 teams. Before that we had the "super regionals" which frequently had bad attendance and included byes, problems with a team getting to play in front of a favorable crowd when they hadn't really earned it, etc...
This is now the 15th season under the current system. In those 15 years we've seen fifty different schools make the tournament. Without checking, I'm going to guess you don't see the same participation rate in sports like basketball or baseball or others.
Furthermore, we've seen 26 different schools make the Frozen Four, and that's just in the first fourteen seasons, obviously. Six of this year's field have yet to make a Frozen Four, so that number could increase in April.
Through the first fourteen seasons of this format, eighteen different programs have played in the championship game. When you consider there have only been 28 spots in that game over those past fourteen seasons, that's pretty remarkable.
That's not to say that small tweaks can't be made here or there, but I don't believe for a second the system is broken.
Originally posted by Riz
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The current system was installed for the 2002-03 season, when we first went to 16 teams. Before that we had the "super regionals" which frequently had bad attendance and included byes, problems with a team getting to play in front of a favorable crowd when they hadn't really earned it, etc...
This is now the 15th season under the current system. In those 15 years we've seen fifty different schools make the tournament. Without checking, I'm going to guess you don't see the same participation rate in sports like basketball or baseball or others.
Furthermore, we've seen 26 different schools make the Frozen Four, and that's just in the first fourteen seasons, obviously. Six of this year's field have yet to make a Frozen Four, so that number could increase in April.
Through the first fourteen seasons of this format, eighteen different programs have played in the championship game. When you consider there have only been 28 spots in that game over those past fourteen seasons, that's pretty remarkable.
That's not to say that small tweaks can't be made here or there, but I don't believe for a second the system is broken.
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