(You'll have to pardon me if my voice has no resonance, I have a very bad head
cold. Actually, it's a very good one, that's why I feel like s**t.)
I wanted to get this out before the conference games which are scheduled for
tonight. This is the update of the standings in the Contest as of games played
Sunday.
My deepest thanks to those out there (you know who you are) who update the
standings for the conferences here on Hockey Heaven and make my life a little
easier. Also my thanks to the individual who updates the archived composite
schedule (I won't mention his name, he probably gets too much fanfare here
anyway :-) and it probably goes to his head on occasion :-)) that made my tie-
breaker chore a bit easier.
Anyway, the current conference standings used in the point determination (I'll
discuss how ties in the standings were broken below):
HE ECAC CCHA WCHA
1. Maine Brown Bowling Green Minnesota
2. Boston U. Clarkson Michigan St. Wisconsin
3. Northeastern Dartmouth Michigan Colorado Coll.
4. Mass-Lowell Harvard Miami Denver
5. New Hampshire RPI Illinois-Chi. North Dakota
6. Providence Vermont Ferris St. Michigan Tech
7. Boston C. Yale W. Michigan Minnesota-Dul.
8. Merrimack Union Lake Superior N. Michigan
9. Mass-Amherst Cornell Notre Dame St. Cloud St.
10. St. Lawrence Ohio St. Alaska-Anch.
11. Colgate
12. Princeton
Ties between teams with equal number of conference points were broken as
follows:
1. Teams have unequal number of wins- Team with higher number of wins ranked
higher
2. Teams have equal number of wins- Team playing fewer games ranked higher
3. Teams have identical records- a. Head-to-Head
b. Common Opponents
c. Goal Differential
Three ties went to category 3 above. The UIC-Ferris tie in the CCHA was broken
by common opponents. Both have played ND twice, with UIC going 2-0-0, while
Ferris went 1-1-0.
The Clarkson-Dartmouth tie and Vermont-Yale ties were broken by Goal Differ-
ential, since the teams involved had no common opponents. Clarkson had a +11
GD vs. -7 for Dartmouth, while Vermont edged Yale with a +10 to -9 advantage.
Reminder that points are "disawarded" based on how far off your predictions
are. To give an example, probably the one which cost people more points than
any other, let's say you predicted Dartmouth to finish 12th (as many of us did)
in the ECAC. The current standings show that the slimy illegitimate children
:-) are currently in 3rd. That would cost you 9 points.
That having been said, the current leader is Bob Constantine, one of the New
Hampshire faithful, with a grand total of 78 points, which actually gives him
a fairly comfortable lead over his nearest competitors, Steve Kapetanakis and
Lance Harry, who both have 86. The overall standings, with points broken
down by conference:
HE ECAC CCHA WCHA Total
1. Bob Constantine 4 38 18 18 78
2. Steve Kapetanakis 12 30 16 28 86
Lance Harry 12 34 20 20 86
4. Ron Fraser 12 32 20 24 88
Bruce Spencer 16 30 22 20 88
Joe Brownson 18 26 22 22 88
7. Tony Buffa 14 34 14 28 90
Tim Newman 14 28 22 26 90
Jeff Bowen 8 36 22 24 90
G. M. Finniss :-~~~~~~( 12 36 18 24 90
Russell Jaslow 14 32 20 24 90
12. Tark McMains 12 40 18 22 92
Glenn Gale 10 32 22 28 92
Robb Dunn 12 36 22 22 92
Mike Sheehan 10 34 18 30 92
Ross Bracco 16 32 18 26 92
17. Andrew Samwick 8 34 22 30 94
Nate Webster 12 30 22 30 94
William Krebs 16 28 24 26 94
Lloyd Hsu 12 30 26 26 94
21. I. R. Rutks 2 34 32 28 96
Dave Kaufman 12 34 24 26 96
Troy Thiele 10 38 20 28 96
Eric Hoffman 14 30 20 32 96
Robin Lock 14 38 22 22 96
26. Eric Maiwald 16 34 20 28 98
Brian Roberts 10 40 22 26 98
Brian Morris 16 40 18 24 98
David Nicolai 8 36 24 30 98
Steve Weisfeldt 14 40 20 24 98
31. Andrew Frisch 10 38 24 28 100
Mike Machnik 18 36 20 26 100
David Wang 14 40 20 26 100
Steve Phillips 10 42 24 24 100
Brian Gentry 16 34 24 26 100
Eric Robinson 10 44 16 30 100
36. J. Jodzis 10 38 20 34 102
Andy Weise 18 46 24 14 102
Beth Darrah 12 40 18 32 102
39. Chris Paine 8 44 20 32 104
Mark Johnson 8 46 24 26 104
41. Steve Moerland 10 40 24 32 106
Curt Nelson 10 44 24 28 106
Andy Peed 16 34 28 28 106
Greg Williams 12 40 22 32 106
John Forsyth 12 32 30 32 106 Bill Fenwick 12 38 24 32 106
Sean Pickett 18 38 20 30 106
48. Don Demick 20 44 22 22 108
Rich Boehme 10 42 20 36 108
Willis Lam 18 38 24 28 1
08
Dave Hendrickson 12 46 20 30 108
52. Kristen Robinson 24 52 20 14 110
Anthony Frolik 28 40 18 24 110
Jeff Kelly 18 44 20 28 110
Roger Feeley 16 46 30 18 110
56. Jayson Moy 16 40 26 30 112
Peter Knapp 20 36 30 26 112
58. Scott Biggar 14 44 24 34 116
59. John McCumisky 12 48 30 40 130
60. Jeffrey Anbinder 24 44 40 32 140
(You'll have to excuse me, the ranking numbers are a bit screwed up. From
position 36 on, the number should be one higher. There are 61 participants.)
For those behind, don't give up hope. I doubt seriously that Dartmouth will
finish 3rd in their conference or that LSSU will continue to flounder down in
8th place.
Next update should be the week before Christmas, with a third update around
February 1.
Look for other exciting pools in the New Year: the conference playoff pool in
March (all four conferences) and, of course, the NCAA Tournament pool in March
and April.
G. M. Finniss
Michigan State University 6-1-1, 8-2-1
The (very sick) Director of the Hockey-L Regular Season Contest
WVU '87, UTenn '92, MSU who the hell knows when?
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