Regional Rankings

[sshablak]

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It must be fake news !!

[Birdwatcher]

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The one thing I find funny is that the women's static sheets are released........but the men's aren't. What is too secretive to release ???

[NUProf]

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The one thing I find funny is that the women's static sheets are released........but the men's aren't. What is too secretive to release ???

The East committee doesn't want the public to know how the messed up?

[Birdwatcher]

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The East committee doesn't want the public to know how the messed up?

BTW....on the women's side.....the difference between #1 Norwich & #2 Plattsburgh was so close....WIN +.022 Norwich, SOS +.079 Plattsburgh, RNK, +.045 Norwich...I do not remember one ever being closer.

[UCBadger]

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..................As was explained on the other site, no team could be found in any sport with an SOS as bad as Utica's to receive an at-large bid. ......................

"But their SOS!"

So you are suggesting that Utica's on ice performance is completely rendered irrelevant because of their SOS? If they had gone 3-0-0 or 2-0-1 instead of 1-1-1 against Salve Regina, Adrian, and Oswego that it would not have mattered as the SOS remained the same?

[spwood]

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"But their SOS!"

So you are suggesting that Utica's on ice performance is completely rendered irrelevant because of their SOS? If they had gone 3-0-0 or 2-0-1 instead of 1-1-1 against Salve Regina, Adrian, and Oswego that it would not have mattered as the SOS remained the same?

Sadly, yes, I think that's what I mean. See Adrian their first couple of years when the MIAC didn't have an autobid. They lost one game all year and couldn't get a bid because their SOS sunk them. Any longtime Adrian fans want to open old wounds?

[joecct]

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"But their SOS!"

So you are suggesting that Utica's on ice performance is completely rendered irrelevant because of their SOS? If they had gone 3-0-0 or 2-0-1 instead of 1-1-1 against Salve Regina, Adrian, and Oswego that it would not have mattered as the SOS remained the same?

Would not matter. The UCHC was not exactly stellar out of conference. Look at this table and compare OOC's.

Remember, your in conference SoS is always .500.

[UCBadger]

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Would not matter. The UCHC was not exactly stellar out of conference. Look at this table and compare OOC's.

Remember, your in conference SoS is always .500.

So when I am considering just how bad the conference did OOC, should I, at least mentally, subtract Utica's 7-1-1 OOC record to show the rest of the league went 16-44-10?

[NUProf]

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So when I am considering just how bad the conference did OOC, should I, at least mentally, subtract Utica's 7-1-1 OOC record to show the rest of the league went 16-44-10?

That should get you close, but because of the (odd) way the NCAA computes SOS, it is a little more complex than that. The take the average of the winning percentages rather than the actual record to compute the OWP metric. (This can be statistically misleading) For the OOWP component they take average of the OWP of the teams your opponents played.

[gknight]

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What it appears they did was set up the bracket so that #1 seed Salve Regina played the lowest ranked team after the first round. It would appear that the only tinkering to the bracket was that Nichols would have been seeded #5 (they were regionally ranked while Colby and Fitchburg were not), but is still playing against Fitchburg. That may have been done for geographical reasons, but it hardly destroyed bracket integrity.

That is the worst explanation I've ever heard, and yes it completely destroyed bracket integrity. Show me another bracket anywhere that has the #5 seed playing a home game against a lower seed, while the #4 seed plays an away game at a higher seed....in the first round!!!

Why would they "protect" a 1 seed? The 1 seed gets a bye and gets to lined up to play what is expected to be the lowest team remaining. 1 vs 4 and 2 vs 3 is how the last million brackets in every sport have been set up, until now.

Last year Norwich was a 1 loss far and away 1 seed who didn't even get a bye, so why does a 5 loss Salve team need a bye and need to avoid the scary #4 seed. Norwich last year, of course, faced the 8 seed in round 1, followed by the winner of the 4 vs 5 game like every other bracket known to man. Based on your rationale the bracket last year should have been like 1 vs 8 and they play the winner of the 6 vs 7 game, then on the other half of the draw you have 2 vs 5 and 3 vs 4....right?

Colby is the only school that is 500 miles from Hobart and Geneseo, so there was no rule preventing a normal bracket. Not to mention that they screwed up the bracket so that if Colby beats UNE, now they have to fly Colby to Hobart or Geneseo. Why wouldn't they just put Colby in with Nichols and Salve to avoid any chance of having to fly a team before the final four. That should tell you how intelligent the people putting together this bracket are, they destroyed the bracket to save money and then left the door open to spend even more money if 1 upset happens.

They might as well have gone all out to maximize profits and made Hobart play at lower seed Geneseo. Could have had a crowd of 2200 in Geneseo compared to the 300 Hobart will draw.

[spwood]

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That is the worst explanation I've ever heard, and yes it completely destroyed bracket integrity. Show me another bracket anywhere that has the #5 seed playing a home game against a lower seed, while the #4 seed plays an away game at a higher seed....in the first round!!!

I'm sorry you feel that way, but while the bracket isn't perfect, and from someone without a team in the tournament, it made some sense. I think Adrian has more of a gripe about its first opponent than Geneseo does. Hobart is probably a #6 overall seed in this tournament and Geneseo would be lower than that. Hobart v. Geneseo isn't that big a stretch. And sorry, but you aren't paying for the tournament and money is a factor.

Why would they "protect" a 1 seed? The 1 seed gets a bye and gets to lined up to play what is expected to be the lowest team remaining. 1 vs 4 and 2 vs 3 is how the last million brackets in every sport have been set up, until now.

That's the semifinal round, not the QF round. The semis are set up to be 1 v 4 and 2 v 3. If they all win. This was set up to get as close to a 1 v 8 matchup as they could, with their other restrictions. Salve is certainly the top seed in the east and will get the lowest remaining eastern team after the first round. (St. Norbert out west is also getting the lowest western team remaining). Again, if you want to complain for someone, Adrian is almost certainly #2 in the west (and possibly #2 overall) and is playing the probable #3 or #4 team in the whole tournament in the QF.

Oh, and just because you don't agree with the explanation doesn't make it a bad one. Calm down and enjoy your March hockey. At least your team is still playing...

[Russell Jaslow]

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Colby is the only school that is 500 miles from Hobart and Geneseo, so there was no rule preventing a normal bracket. Not to mention that they screwed up the bracket so that if Colby beats UNE, now they have to fly Colby to Hobart or Geneseo.

Colby will not fly if this happens. There's been precedence before when it came to Maine teams forced to bus over 500 miles within the Northeast.

[spwood]

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Colby will not fly if this happens. There's been precedence before when it came to Maine teams forced to bus over 500 miles within the Northeast.

And now I've learned something new today. There was discussion on the d3hoops board that they thought that 500 mile number was etched in stone and couldn't be excepted.

[sshablak]

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It's part of the aging process spy." Old too soon and wise too late" ! BTW...TY for all your explaining here, you are patient with us and very knowledgeable.

[Russell Jaslow]

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And now I've learned something new today. There was discussion on the d3hoops board that they thought that 500 mile number was etched in stone and couldn't be excepted.

All I'm saying is that they made Bowdoin women's team bus to Elmira when Elmira hosted the D3 championships in the first two years. And I'm pretty sure it's over 500 miles. And I'm pretty sure I remember Bowdoin not being happy about it at all.