---Lee Urton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> The Pairwise Ranking is the ranking system used by the NCAA Selection
> Committee to determine participants for the NCAA Division I men's hockey
> tournament.
>
 
Hmmmm... is this technically correct?  I remember sitting in Lake Placid
last year after Princeton won the tournament, and I essentially used RPI to
figure out who was going to make the tournament and who was not (just like I
have done for the past 4 years).  And I know I was able to figure out who
was going to be in the tournament before PWR was published on a widespread
basis.
 
I like "The Pairwise Ranking is ONE OF the ranking systems used by the NCAA
Selection Committee...
 
Because if you ask me, they use RPI a lot more than PWR (we only get to PWR
when teams are very close in RPI and even then, it is the team vs. team
comparisons and not how many PWR points a team has).
 
But maybe something has changed since the last time I knew.
 
But if nothing has changed, then I humbly disagree with the description of
PWR as listed in Lee's post and think it could be rewritten to more properly
reflect what PWR really is and how RPI is used by the selection committee
more heavily.
 
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