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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
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