On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Clay Satow wrote:

> But what is the effect of the forfeits on PWR and KRACH?

> I assume that since PWR is actually used by the NCAA, it is obliged
> to count forfeits as losses, regardless of the on-ice result.  But
> what does KRACH do?  If the point of KRACH were to supplement the
> PWRs, then I'd think that they'd have to count the forfeits as
> losses.  But if its goal were to give a true ranking of teams, then
> you could make an argument that they it should use on-ice results.
> What actually happens?

Apparently, past NCAA policy[*] has been not to count wins which turn
into forfeit losses at all, so the five games that UML won would just
be dropped from the PWR (minor nitpick--the NCAA doesn't use the PWR,
they use pairwise comparisons according to the same selection
criteria; however, last year's seedings seem to indicate they do just
add up the number of comparisons won, which is the same thing as the
PWR); for KRACH purposes, the most sensible thing to do is whatever
the NCAA is doing.  After all, we've left out games against
tournament-ineligible teams in the past.

[*] References:
http://lists.maine.edu/cgi/wa?A2=ind0001&L=hockey-l&D=0&F=P&P=2320&F=
http://uscho.com/news/2000/01/11_000600.php
http://uscho.com/news/2000/01/14_000580.php

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