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Larry Weintraub < [log in to unmask]> "Re: ECAC stretch and
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On Feb 19, 17:25, Larry Weintraub wrote:
>And I gather that we haven't yet heard a definitive response on whether
>top4/top8 has gone to top5/top10? record against top 10 would seem to be a
>ridiculously poor tiebbreaker, since that leaves out the bottom 2 teams
>only. Of course, with Cornell's record against the league cellar dwellers,
>that doesn't seem like a bad idea to me.
The ECAC still uses the top four and top eight as tiebreakers, despite the new
playoff format. Actually, top 5/top 10 wouldn't be any more ridiculous than
top 4/top 8. It still meets The Academic League's criteria of possibly causing
an infinite loop...
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