My table currently has a disagreement with both Jim's and USCHO's calculations; I have Bowling Green at .5266, while both the other have them at .5251. This is because I'm removing one of Bowling Green's three wins over UAH (the home game), while the other sites are removing none of BGSU's wins. Since the home game is worth less, its removal causes Bowling Green's winning percentage to not fall as much as removing the away wins would, balancing things out and resulting in a net positive.
... http://siouxsports.com/hockey/rankin....php?teamid=20 http://pwr.reillyhamilton.com/pwr.php#BowlingGreen
There's something else going on. I am considering each game separately (because the RPI criteria are weighted differently, I even had to change to not consider all the wins at a single location concurrently because it can produce a different result in rare circumstances).
I'm just not seeing that dropping BG's home win over AH improves their RPI. Most interestingly, we agree on the effect on WP and OOPER, but you calculate OPER going to .5251 whereas I calculate it going to .5179. Mine results in the RPI being .5221 (though slightly lower than the current .5221 in the 5th decimal place), whereas your results in an RPI of .5237.
It does seem to be unique to BG over AH, a matchup with at least a couple unique features -- wins at different locations vs. the opponent under consideration, and the opponent under consideration has only defeated the team in question such that its OPER is 0. I haven't yet figured out why either (or some other factor) would lead to this difference.
Nope. Most of the University of Minnesota's Twin Cities campus is on the east side of the Mississippi, including Mariucci Arena. You could count them as east AND west, but then you'd have to do the same for St. Cloud State. So, it's either 49/10 or 50/11, but it's definitely not 48/11.
EDIT: FYI, the Minneapolis campus is primarily on the east bank as well.
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Technically, wouldn't the Sanford Center in Bemidji would be considered south of the Mississippi River?
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Originally posted by Kristin Maybe I'm missing something but you just asked me which MSU I go to and then you knew the theme of my homecoming, how do you know one and not the other?
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