> Date:         Tue, 14 Mar 1995 07:37:43 EST
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> Subject:      Have I Missed Something?
> To: Multiple recipients of list
>
>         I thought the automatic bids went to the regular season winners
> and to the tournament winners with the remainder decided by the RPI
> including the "accuracy of the method" tiebreaking procedure.
>
>         Why then are we talking about whether the ECAC will get 2 or 3
> seeds?   If,  as seems more and more likely every day,  Clarkson
> runs the table at Placid,  the ECAC will almost surely get only one
> seed.   True folks???
 
no, the procedure is
    1) select the post season tournament winner (giving 4 teams)
    2) select the regular season winner (giving 0-4 more teams)
    3) for each conference that so far has only 1 team selected
       because the same team won both the regular season and the post
       season tournament, select a second team FROM THAT CONFERENCE
       (giving 0-4 more teams and bringing the total to 8)
    4) now select 4 at large teams to fill out the field.
    5) seed the teams
 
>         Second question:  is the committee constrained to using the RPI
> in seeding the tournament once the selections have been made?   My impression
> is that it is not  --  that it can do what it darn pleases.   If so,  my
> guess is that it will have a very hard time putting UNH ahead of Clarkson,
> given Tech's regular season and (by then) league tournament championships.
> (And also given the almost equal HE v ECAC record this year.)
>
>         Have I missed something?
 
basically, yes, but there are ways of getting around this.  These
include
1) the concept of east teams and west teams and that the split should
   be 6 - 6 or 7 - 5 or at worst 8 - 4.
2) moving teams to the other region to allow a team to "play at home"
   so, for example, the 4th place team might go to the other region
   because the 5th place team should stay on home ice.  This may have
   the net effect of moving the 5th place team up to 4th.
3) juggling so that two teams who played in their conference final the
   week before will not meet in the first (and possibly the second)
   round of a regional
4) trying to spread teams from a conference through the brackets
>
>         -- Dick Tuthill
>
 
 
 
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