At 5:16 AM 4/19/96, Ralph N. Baer wrote:
>Mike Machnik wrote:
>
>> However, the alignment as described would mean that each team would have 32
>> league games against a total of 21 opponents, plus any NC games.
>
>First of all, the WCCHA, if I understand things correctly, will consist
>of three Divisions with either 7 or 8 schools in each Division.  It
>wasn't clear from the description if the 8 games to be played outside of
>one's Division would be against 8 different teams or 4 sets of two games
>or something else.  But let's assume that it is indeed against 8 different
>teams.  Thus each team would play against 6 or 7 teams in its own Division
>and 8 others for a total of either 14 or 15 opponents.
 
This was my mistake...I read the WCCHA description to mean that teams would
wind up playing everyone from outside their division once.  Sorry about
that.  Ralph is right, teams would only play 8 games against all teams from
the other two divisions (and thus not get to play everyone else).
 
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