Too early for the PWR? Princeton and Brown say no!

[Priceless]

Re: Too early for the PWR? Princeton and Brown say no!

I went to the NCAA to get a response. All I saw was smoke.

I don't expect them to tell us unless they have to. So far, they haven't had to.

[streaker]

Re: Too early for the PWR? Princeton and Brown say no!

I think Michigan stays west - they can bus to St. Louis, have a good fan base - whereas Denver has to fly no matter what and has a small fan base.
I was torn on where to assign the ECAC teams. One of Michigan, Notre Dame and Miami goes east. In my brackets, it is Miami and that leaves no room for Union. Dartmouth, CC and RPI are interchangeable except CC can't be paired with NoDak. Dartmouth and RPI are both bus rides to Manchester, so they are both options.

Of course, to keep the anti-WCHA myth alive, CC has to be in a bracket with another WCHA team

The PWR shows Michigan ahead of Merrimack due to the tiebreaker assumption. Don't know why you didn't give Michigan a #1 seed. No matter, this is fools gold right now.

[Priceless]

Re: Too early for the PWR? Princeton and Brown say no!

The PWR shows Michigan ahead of Merrimack due to the tiebreaker assumption. Don't know why you didn't give Michigan a #1 seed. No matter, this is fools gold right now.

Here:

SS will have #5 Michigan ahead of #4 Mack by .0007 RPI.
SS will have #16 BU ahead of #15 CC by .0081 RPI

If three or more teams are tied, ties are broken by RPI. If two teams are tied there is some disagreement as to how the tie is broken. Some (SiouxSports) break the ties by RPI, others (TBRW) use the comparison. It has only happened once where the RPI and comparison disagreed, in 2005, and teams were switched anyway because of an all-HE 1st round game. The NCAA has not said how they break ties.

[Priceless]

Re: Too early for the PWR? Princeton and Brown say no!

I think Yale can wrap up the #1 overall seed tonight. They have a 12-2 (.857) record vs TUC. Even subtracting Quinnipiac (2 wins) and giving Air Force enough wins in the AHA Tournament to become a TUC (tenuous at best) that makes Yale 10-3 (.769). Even with an 0-2 record vs TUC in the ECAC tournament, they would be 11-5 (.688) which would be enough to win the category against everyone except maybe NoDak (.700 currently), Merrimack (.667) and BC (.642).

Yale will win the COp component against NoDak. They will drop into a tie with BC if and only if the Eagles play Vermont in the Hockey East Quarters and go 2-0. Yale can only lose the COp with Merrimack if Yale plays and loses to Harvard.

Even if Yale's RPI takes an unexpected nosedive, that will not be enough to cost them comparisons. The only other team with a shot is Michigan, but they have to make up a .0239 gap in the RPI.

A win tonight should wrap things up. A loss tonight, and North Dakota has a chance to flip the comparison. Merrimack and BC need serendipity on their side no matter what happens.

[Federal League]

Re: Too early for the PWR? Princeton and Brown say no!

Re: Tiebreakers- I got confirmation from someone today that the head-to-head tiebreaker is RPI, not the head-to-head comparison.

[Priceless]

Re: Too early for the PWR? Princeton and Brown say no!

Re: Tiebreakers- I got confirmation from someone today that the head-to-head tiebreaker is RPI, not the head-to-head comparison.

Don't suppose you can share the identity of this "someone"?

[Federal League]

Re: Too early for the PWR? Princeton and Brown say no!

Don't suppose you can share the identity of this "someone"?

Someone in the know at BU, not someone with the NCAA. He was sure of it, though.

[Priceless]

Re: Too early for the PWR? Princeton and Brown say no!

Someone in the know at BU, not someone with the NCAA. He was sure of it, though.

Oh, so Jack Parker.

[Ralph Baer]

Re: Too early for the PWR? Princeton and Brown say no!

Oh, so Jack Parker.

Or Freddy Meyer.

[Priceless]

Re: Too early for the PWR? Princeton and Brown say no!

Updated pairwise, assuming UAA hangs on to win (the Seawolves lead 4-0). If Alaska comes back to tie or win, this will change.

1	Yale (EC)	31	0.5825
2	North Dak (WC)	30	0.5823
3	Boston C (HE)	29	0.5699
4	Michigan (CC)	28	0.5577
5	Denver U (WC)	27	0.5562
6	Union (EC)	25	0.5635
7	Merrimack (HE)	25	0.5517
8	NE-Omaha (WC)	23	0.5459
9	Notre Dame (CC)	22	0.5517
10	Miami (CC)	22	0.5500
11	Duluth (WC)	21	0.5509
12	New Hamp (HE)	21	0.5502
13	RPI (EC)	19	0.5323
14	CO College (WC)	17	0.5269
15	Boston U (HE)	16	0.5359
---
16	Maine (HE)	16	0.5328
17	Dartmouth (EC)	16	0.5308

The brackets look like

Bridgeport	Manchester	St Louis	Green Bay
Yale		Boston Coll	North Dakota	Michigan
Merrimack	Union		UNO		Denver
Minn-Duluth	UNH		Miami		Notre Dame
AHA Champ	Colorado Coll	Boston U	RPI

RPI and CC can be switched to save a flight.

Conference breakdown:
WCHA: 5
Hockey East: 4
ECAC: 3
CCHA: 3
AHA: 1

The TUC line:

AK-Anchorage 		0.5045
RIT		        0.5036
Bemidji State		0.5025
Cornell		        0.5024
Robert Morris		0.5022
Air Force		0.5014
Quinnipiac		0.5009
---
Mich State		0.4998
Niagara		        0.4994
Ohio State		0.4985

Tomorrow's NoDak/Bemidji game will have no impact on these standings.

[redwings8831]

Re: Too early for the PWR? Princeton and Brown say no!

Mine:

Bridgeport:
1. Yale (EC)
8. Nebraska-Omaha (WC)
10. Miami (CC)
16. Atlantic Hockey (AH)

Green Bay:
2. North Dakota (WC)
7. Merrimack (HE)
11. Minnesota-Duluth (WC)
15. Boston University (HE)

Manchester:
3. Boston College (HE)
6. Union (EC)
12. New Hampshire (HE)
13. RPI (EC)

St. Louis:
4. Michigan (CC)
5. Denver (WC)
9. Notre Dame (CC)
14. Colorado College (WC)

*If Air Force wins Atlantic Hockey, move them to Green Bay and Boston University to Bridgeport.*

[komey1]

Re: Too early for the PWR? Princeton and Brown say no!

I don't think they would move BU to Bridgeport if AF wins. AF will need to fly no matter what. Also, I suspect the NCAA will protect the #1 seed.

[Bakunin]

Re: Too early for the PWR? Princeton and Brown say no!

Even if Yale's RPI takes an unexpected nosedive, that will not be enough to cost them comparisons. The only other team with a shot is Michigan, but they have to make up a .0239 gap in the RPI.

That's a big gap, but it might be doable. The RPI dropped nearly 0.006 when Dartmouth lost to Clarkson (0.5367 to 0.5308). If Yale suffers a couple punishing losses like that in the ECAC playoffs, that could cut the gap in half. However, even to overcome that gap, Michigan would have to win out... and it's still no guarantee that they'll catch Yale (since RPI is opponent-dependent).

I think in the best case scenario for Michigan, they can gain about 0.008 in the semis/finals combined, and maybe gain 0.004-0.005 in their best-of-three against some mediocre team like LSSU or OSU (top four in the CCHA get opening round byes IIRC, so we don't yet know who their opponent is).

[J.D.]

Re: Too early for the PWR? Princeton and Brown say no!

You guys may need to check your code? PWR shows CC as being in. Anyway...

Bridgeport:

1. Yale
2. Union
3. Miami
4. RIT

Manchester:

1. BC
2. Denver
3. UNH
4. RPI

St. Louis:

1. North Dakota
2. Notre Dame
3. Nebraska-Omaha
4. Western Michigan

Green Bay:

1. Michigan
2. Merrimack
3. Minnesota-Duluth
4. Colorado College

[AFHockeyFan]

Re: Too early for the PWR? Princeton and Brown say no!

I think Yale can wrap up the #1 overall seed tonight. They have a 12-2 (.857) record vs TUC. Even subtracting Quinnipiac (2 wins) and giving Air Force enough wins in the AHA Tournament to become a TUC (tenuous at best) that makes Yale 10-3 (.769).

Someone refresh my memory and explain how Yale wins a "comparison" with Air Force when the teams played once and Air Force beat them head-to-head. Is the rest of the Pairwise this illogical?