Its good to see that, after last year, the East doesn't have a monopoly on
gloating...
 
... and you miss the point as well.  I stick by my questioning of the
ranking of 8-18 BGSU over 18-8 Clarkson (for example) at one point in the
season.  Its not that TCHCR is biased.  TCHCR takes a sampling of data, and
makes an estimate of the relative rankings of teams.  There is no way that a
sampling method becomes more accurate when the number of samples becomes
smaller.
 
My interest is in working out some parameter which will tell us the standard
deviation of a teams ranking, and comparing this to previous years.  If you
consider this goal a personal attack on Keith, than I think you misread my
intentions.
 
Anyway, East-West bashing is fun, especially if you are from the west this
year.  I would like to look at North-South bashing next.  It would seem like
there is an even better case for North better than South.  Look at it this
way:
 
	HE: Maine (Northernmost HE Team), UNH (probably second northernmost)
	ECAC: St. Lawrence, Clarkson (virtually tied for northernmost ECAC)
	CCHA: Lake Superior (northernmost CCHA?)
	WCHA: Northern Michigan (northernmost WCHA?)
 
I'll let someone else more familiar with CCHA & WCHA geography fill in the
details, since I am not sure if there are any teams farther north of LSSU or
NMU.
--
Craig