Me:
 
> > There was some ambiguity this year, and I
> > guessed the wrong one of the two likely possibilites, but the only
> > difference was the substitution of Notre Dame for OSU.
 
Ken Butler:
 
> Just pulling the top 12 teams off of KRACH would have made the same
> substitution, by the way. (I had OSU 14th, and RPI 13th, so I would have
> picked RPI ahead of OSU but not Notre Dame.)
 
The same goes for taking the top five according to RPI (so RPI's RPI
is not good enough :-) ).  If KRACH were used to change the pairwise
comparisons by replacing RPI and modifying the criteria (last 16, vs
TUC, common opponents) that look at straight winning percentage to
include strength of schedule, the selection according to PWCs would
have been unambiguous and resulted in the same field (NMU, OSU, not
Notre Dame) as was actually chosen.  This KRACH-modified PWC system
would have given those results without the need to remove Quinnipiac
and the other MAAC teams by hand.
                                          John Whelan, Cornell '91
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