In looking at this week' TCHCR, it's interesting to see that some of the
ECAC teams continue to rise in the ratings eventhough Clarkson is the
only active.
 
>The College Hockey Computer Rating
>compiled by Keith Instone
 
>Includes games on 3/24/91. Last week's ranking includes games on 3/17/91.
 
>     Last                      Division I          Schedule Schedule
>Rank Week Team                   Record    Rating  Strength   Rank
>  5    7 *Clarkson              28  8  2    86.02    55.21     19
> 13   13  Cornell               18 11  3    64.15    52.61     25
> 14   16  St Lawrence           21 13  1    62.63    51.39     27
> 15   20  RPI                   16 12  1    58.54    49.89     32
> 16   21  Harvard               14 12  3    58.06    51.17     28
> 22   23  Colgate               16 12  4    54.42    46.38     37
> 24   26  Vermont               16 14  2    50.92    47.06     36
> 31   33  Yale                  10 16  2    36.51    49.68     33
> 33   35  Brown                  9 15  3    34.92    49.32     34
> 37   37  Princeton              8 18  1    26.18    47.43     35
> 40   40  Army                   4 18  3    10.09    43.42     39
> 44   44  Dartmouth              1 24  3     0.00    50.29     31
 
This obviously due to the strength of schedule for the league going up
because Clarkson has beaten Wisconsin and LSSU.  This shows what a tough
non-league schedule can do for a league.  I think that Clarkson's
schedule rank has risen from the low thirties to the current nineteen.
 
Come the end of the regular season, TCHCR is very reliable since many
non-league games have been played.  However, when the number of games
become limitted, it is the non-league games that are going to be cut
out.  This will make it harder to compare one league with another.  You
think that the current NCAA selection process is bad now, just wait
until there are fewer non-league games.  It will make things a lot
worse.  The selection committee will have to come up with even more
far-out way for determining at-large bids.
 
Jim Love (I believe that it was him) made a good point in stating that
the newly proposed Fri-Sat format will favor the teams with a bye more
than the current format (as was shown in the Final 4 in the past years
when the team that won Fri won Sun, usually).
 
Mike Zak
Clarkson '87, '90,...