I think the committee did an outstanding job. It is easy to understand
and reasonable. There are two issues of potential controversy:
The choice of which two Hockey East Teams would go West and
How to deal with Niagara
 
i picked up something from the selection show today that, while it is
at odds with how we have thought things to work, makes perfect sense.
when there is a regional imbalance (7-5) take the bottom 2 from the
smaller region and the bottom 3 from the larger region and swap them.
 
that way there was no notion of taking the 7th place team, moving it
to the other site to even things up, and then move it back to the
original region.
 
WISC                    Maine
ND                      St. Lawrence
MSU                     BU
Mich - move             Colg
St cloud - move         NH - move
                        BC - move
                        Niagara - demote from third in east and move
to get....
WISC                    Maine
ND                      St. Lawrence
MSU                     BU
NH                      colgate
BC                      Michigan
Niag                    St cloud
 
and then reorder the west
WISC
ND
NH
BC
MSU
Niag
 
I'm speculating that the committee ordered the teams
BU Colgate New Hampshire BC based on the individual comprisons and
splitting them by saying BU and Colgate won 2 and UNH and BC won 1
and then using the individual comparisons to rank each of the pairs
 
        New Hampshire        ^ ^ <
        Colgate            <   ^ <
        Boston University  < <   ^
        Boston College     ^ ^ <
~
 
Several folk thought michigan would stay in the west as one of the top
four western teams, but the comments on how the committee was handling
the regional imbalance (last two teams from smaller region go)
explains, to me at least, how Michigan, the second lowest western
team, got to the east regional.
 
It turns out that my reasoning last night, though flawed, produced the
correct regional placement.  I had niagara as a western team with the
third best pwr showing.  I had michigan and st cloud as 5th and 6th.
 
At least it got me the teams in the same region as the NCAA
 
Then for the ranking the committee demoted niagara to last, but i kept
them where the PWR put them
 
My ranking              Actual
 
Wisc                    Wisc
North Dakota            North Dakota
New Hampshire           New Hampshire
Niagara                 BC
BC                      MSU
MSU                     Niagara
 
that caused me to switch the pairings of niagara and msu.
 
         charlie shub   University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
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