John T. Whelan wrote:
> The really unfortunate thing is that the committee missed their way
> out of this situation.  St. Cloud is #13 in the PWR after bonus points
> have been added to the RPI, but if the committee had just confined
> attention to comparisons among tournament teams the ranking would have
> been #11 Harvard, #12 SCSU, #13 Ohio State, with one WCHA team as a
> 4-seed, and they could have bracketed the tournament reasonably.
> Apparently they have forgotten all about the individual comparisons
> used by previous committees and really do just rank the teams 1-16
> according to the overall PWR.  It sounds like this subtlety didn't
> even occur to them, which is pretty frustrating, since it means people
> like me and Adam and Jayson Moy have thought more about the seeding
> than the committee in charge of it.

As well as the community understands the process, I tend to think that
it wouldn't be so bad for the committee to take a look at our discussion
in the days leading up to the selection.  It might give them some ideas.
For sure, we can muster a lot more minds who are interested in getting
the best possible seeding.  The alternative we got this year was a lot
of really odd decisions, some of which flew in the face of the
originally stated goal of keeping the highest ranked team within each
"band" as close to home as possible.

The seeding last year looked like it was done with a PWR ranking as
well.  I remember one or two key seed changes that indicated as much,
and thinking it bore watching this year.