> Date:         Mon, 5 Dec 1994 16:29:52 -0600
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> Subject:      conferences vs. conferences
>
> After taking a quick run through the composite schedule, here are the
> listings of conference vs. conference through Dec.4, for the 94-95
> season.
>
> To read this table, the W-L-T goes like this W: the wins by the
> conference horizontally from the stat, L: the number of loses by that
> conference. For example, the first numbers are 8-5-1, saying the WCHA
> has beaten the CCHA 8 times, lost to them 5 times, and tied them
> once.
>
> This table takes Alaska Fairbanks as a member of the CCHA (I know
> that they are only an affiliate member, but I didn't know where to
> put them).
 
I've added 2 more columns to give a better picture
>
>
>         |  WCHA |  CCHA |  ECAC |   HE   |  Ind. | INTERCONF | DIV 1
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> WCHA    |  ---  | 8-5-1 | 1-1-0 |  2-2-0 | 2-0-0 |  11-8-1   | 13-8-1
> CCHA    | 5-8-1 |  ---  | 3-4-1 |  0-5-2 | 0-0-0 |  8-17-4   | 8-17-4
> ECAC    | 1-1-0 | 4-3-1 |  ---  | 12-9-0 | 2-1-0 |  17-13-1  | 19-14-1
> HE      | 2-2-0 | 5-0-2 | 9-12-0|   ---  | 5-2-1 |  16-14-2  | 21-16-1
> IND.    | 0-2-0 | 0-0-0 | 1-2-0 |  2-5-1 |  ---  |  3-9-1    | 3-9-1
 
 
                  games                winning percent
>          | INTERCONF | DIV 1    | INTERCONF  | DIV 1
> ----------------------------------------------------
> WCHA     |  11-8-1   | 13-8-1   |  .575      | .614
> CCHA     |  8-17-4   | 8-17-4   |  .345      | .345
> ECAC     |  17-13-1  | 19-14-1  |  .565      | .574
> HE       |  16-14-2  | 21-16-1  |  .531      | .566
 
> Hockey East, it can be seen, is narrowing the lead held by the ECAC.
> The surprising stat, I thought, was the CCHA vs. HE record of 0-5-0.
> But four of these five games has top ranked Maine against two of the
> bottom teams (Alaska Fairbanks and Notre Dame). The other game is
> Mass-Lowell vs. WMU, a pretty close matchup.
 
looks to me like the wcha is doing quite well out of conference
 
> It is clear that the western conferences (WCHA and CCHA) and the
> eastern conferences (ECAC and HE) play amongst themselves more often
> than east vs. west. This is too bad, and likely explains why I have
> trouble getting HE scores in the Minneapolis paper.
>
> This is particularly true about the top two or three teams in each
> conference. Minnesota and Colorado College have not faced HE or ECAC
> foes yet this year; Michigan and Michigan St. have only played
> against the WCHA. Teams like RPI and Harvard are sticking to HE as
> their non-conference opponents, while BU has not played outside the
> ECAC in non-conference play (excluding New Brunswick).
>
> The ECAC, generally considered the weakest conference (considered by
> those on Hockey-L--I am not making any personal statements here) is
> the only conference to hold above .500 records against two other
> conferences (the independents are not actually a conference).
>
>                                                 Lee-nerd
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> "Violence is the last resort of the incompetent." --Isaac Asimov
>
 
 
 
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