I wouldn't bet on MN to advance out of their region unless they figure out how to do something other than split every effing weekend.Originally Posted by streaker
Comparing the PWR Details for Minnesota, USCHO seems to have a different RPI for Minnesota, such that Miami wins the comparison. Digging into the RPI details, it looks like USCHO isn't dropping the wins over Sacred Heart (see also USCHO RPI and CHN RPI).
I don't know if they know something we don't or are messing up.
Last edited by JimDahl; 01-23-2012 at 08:31 AM.
I wouldn't bet on MN to advance out of their region unless they figure out how to do something other than split every effing weekend.
Agreed. Minnesota has been far too inconsistent over the past two months to be a legitimate threat for the National Title. Obviously, there are two months left for the Gophers to correct that. They have the tools to do so, and I think it is just a mental hurdle that they need to pass before they are a legit title contender.
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Interesting fact. The Gophers have never won their conference the same year they won an NCAA national championship. They have always gotten hot at the right time at the end of the season. This Gopher team has the talent to win it all, they just need to be more consistent (as previously mentioned).
WCHA Records of the National Championship Teams
1974 14-9-2 2nd place
1976 18-13-1 3rd place
1979 20-11-1 2nd place
2002 18-7-3 3rd place
2003 15-6-7 2nd place
With MN hosting, I see very little chance of them being upset before the Frozen Four.
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The mid-season rationales for predicting season's-end NCAA tournament brackets are based upon mid-season teams' records - ignoring the possibility that prejudice could play a part in such predictions. In the past five or ten years how close a correlation has there been between best performing mid-season teams and NCAA playoff seeds?
Obviously anything could happen, but given the system used to pick the teams is objective and chances of things happening can be predicted based upon the KRACH predictor, probably about 75% of the time you don't see a correlation is when there is an auto-bid involved.
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More to the point... what do we have that could be better? Not much. Its not a perfect situation and if there are changes in chemistry etc that can't be handled in a model (especially with sparse data)... but, its often better than going on a straight hunch.
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And it certainly beats not being able to be mostly accurate because of committee votes (like some other sports out there).
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Thanks, I neglected to account for the auto-bid team(s)! Still, the chance of "things happening" - like the second half of the season - bemuse me when I see predictions made at or before the season's halfway over. I'm not sure I understand the accuracy of the KRACH predictor. Does it ( at midseason) correctly predict the NCAA tournament seeding of non-autobid teams only 25% of the time, or is it correct 75% of the time?
I have the pairwise data since 2003, taken at key points throughout the season, and mid-January teams in the Pairwise end up in the field 79.4% of the time. The top 8 seeds have made the tournament 64 of 72 times (88.9%) and no #1 or #2 in the mid-January rankings has ever failed to make the field. Of the top 4 overall seeds, only 2010 UMD (#3) and 2004 St Cloud (#4) have failed to make the field.
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KRACH has nothing to do with tournament teams. The only thing KRACH does is to help predict, based upon past performances, who is the most likely to win a specific game. If you'd like information on tournament teams, PWR is the way to go. Obviously the stats change from game to game, but unless some team really goes to heck or a team around the bubble really starts to get hot, not much changes. I don't know what the percentages are, though. The "bubble" should be very large at this point since we still have two months worth of games to be played (playoffs DEFINITELY count toward the PWR), but it will get smaller the closer we get to the end of March.
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College Hockey Weekly has their Bracketology up...
http://www.collegehockeyweekly.com/C..._Pairwise.html
Also, here is their forecast of what the tournament will look like...
http://www.collegehockeyweekly.com/T...-Forecast.html
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I wrote an article (When to start looking at PWR) a couple years ago that tackled this from a different angle -- I looked at the average week-to-week movement in PWR and the average deviation of each week's ranking from the final rankings. The latter had this to say about the January PWR, "each team has been ranked an average of 3-8 slots differently on April 1 than in January over the past six years." That fits pretty well with your statistic that the top 8 in January almost always make it, and reminds us that there is still hope for those teams in the mid-20s.
5 WCHA teams making it?!?!?
Wow, the east is getting pounded this season with only 3 HE and 1 ECAC teams in the rankings today and in the predicted post-season, along with AFA predicted for the AHA auto-seed.
BU, Lowell, Merrihack, Boston College...I think that's four...Wow, the east is getting pounded this season with only 3 HE and 1 ECAC teams in the rankings today and in the predicted post-season, along with AFA predicted for the AHA auto-seed.
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5 WCHA teams making it?!?!?
I was a little surprised, although I know one guy who still thinks the Sioux will get a #2 seed, which I keep telling him is extremely unrealistic. Oh well...
FWIW, Here was my ballot (one of 8 that gets tallied up, 4 points for #1 seed, 3 for #2 seed...etc.)
#1 Seeds: Minnesota Duluth, Michigan, Boston University Notre Dame
#2 Seeds: Ohio State, Lowell, Boston College, Minnesota
#3 Seeds: Miami, Cornell, Ferris State, Denver
#4 Seeds: Western Michigan, Union, Colorado College, Air Force (AHA Champ)
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I think they are referring to CHW's Tourney Forecast. Merrimack is not slated to make the tournament in their forecast.
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first week they did this, they had bu falling from #5 to OUT!
now they have bu staying in and retaining their #1 seed in worcester.
what changed?!?!?!?!
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