Okay, just when you thought the ECAC couldn't get any wackier... Not only is it possible for the season to finish with a six-way tie for third place, but there are multiple ways if could happen, with six different possible resolutions of the tiebreakers, depending on how we get there. All of these possibilities involve Clarkson, Dartmouth, Harvard, RPI, Cornell and Princeton all ending up at exactly .500. With Cornell and Harvard entering the weekend a game below .500 and the others all already there, we need Cornell and Harvard to have three-point weekends, Clarkson to tie their only game, and everyone else to get two points in their two games. This can happen in the following way: -- Clarkson ties Dartmouth -- Dartmouth ties SLU -- either Harvard ties Union (A) RPI def Brown Harvard def RPI or Harvard def Union (B) RPI ties Brown Harvard ties RPI -- either Cornell ties Yale (1) Princeton def Colgate Cornell def Princeton or Cornell def Yale (2) Princeton ties Colgate Cornell ties Princeton That makes four different combinations, but in some cases, the record vs top 10 tiebreaker is needed, so the result of the Union-Brown game is also relevant to determine which of those teams is in tenth place. The possible orderings are as follows: A1: If Brown def Union, Da Cr Ck Pn RP Ha otherwise, Da Cr Ck Pn Ha RP A2: Pn Da Cr Ck Ha RP B1: Da RP Cr Ck Pn Ha B2: If Brown def Union, Pn RP Da Cr Ck Ha otherwise, Pn Da RP Cr Ck Ha To see how this works out with all the tiebreakers, use the ECAC Playoff Possibilities Script at http://www.slack.net/~whelan/cgi-bin/tbrw.cgi?ecac.cgi (You didn't think I worked all this out by hand, did you?) John Whelan, Cornell '91 [log in to unmask] http://www.amurgsval.org/joe/ HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.