Re: Fun With Numbers 2018: Pairwise, KRACH, GRaNT, and other mathematical excitement
Historically, it hasn't tended to go that way, in part because the top teams in the ECAC play each other 2 or 3 times rather than 3 or 4 as in HEA or 4 or 5 as in the WCHA. The exception might be the years the North Country teams decide to do an extra nonconference home and home. So in a year where there is a clear top two in the ECAC and a drop to everyone else, those top two don't beat each other up as far as RPI goes. I'm pretty confident that both Clarkson and Colgate are destined for the top four, unless something unexpected happens (like OSU beating Wisconsin three times in a row). Those two ECAC teams are comfortably ahead of the rest of the pack.
Originally posted by vicb
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