I have lots to say in response/addition to Jim Love's post, but no
time to say it all right now, so just a quick clarification:

>   Just as a curiosity, has anyone (OK, that's you John :-) computed the
> seeds from LAST year's tournament had this new "flopping byes" policy
> existed last season ??  Would SLU have been shipped to St. Paul as the #2W
> seed ??  How else would the seeds have shifted ??  It's an academic exer-
> cise at best, but I'm curious nonetheless - how about it John; pretty
> please ?? :-)  (Since John's scripts rely on the USCHO data-base that now
> reflects each team's *post-tournament* record, I can't do it myself from
> here) ....

Actually, I turned off the cron job that fetched the USCHO score file
once the conference tourneys ended, so for example the data used by

http://www.slack.net/~whelan/cgi-bin/tbrw.cgi?tourney.diy

is the same as applied at selection time.  The problem is that "You
Are The Committee" has the old procedure of giving the byes to the top
two teams in each region hard-wired into it (I'll need to revise the
script for next season), so perhaps inspection of the comparisons
table at

http://www.slack.net/~whelan/cgi-bin/tbrw.cgi?rankings

is more useful.  The top four teams were Wisconsin, Maine, UND, and
SLU, in that order, so as I understand the new procedure the bye seeds
would have been the same: Wisconsin 1W, Maine 1E, UND 2W, and SLU 2E.

                                          John Whelan, Cornell '91
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Consider the alternative: http://slack.net/~whelan/cgi-bin/tbrw.cgi?kpairwise