I love this time of year, you can look at the standings and with
one or two games remaining start coming up with so many different
posible scenarios. Take for example the HE:
2/21/91 Hockey East
GP W-L-T Pts GF-GA
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1 Boston College 20 15-5-0 30 100-72
2 Maine 20 14-5-1 29 106-71
3 Boston University 20 13-5-2 28 99-63
4 Providence 20 10-8-2 22 91-80
New Hampshire 20 10-8-2 22 77-74
6 Merrimack 20 7-13-0 14 68-98
7 Lowell 20 4-15-1 9 64-105
8 Northeastern 20 2-16-2 6 82-124
What if the results of this weekends games go like this:
Boston Univ. def Boston College
Maine ties New Hampshire
Providence ties Northeastern
Merrimack doesn't matter Lowell
The Final Regular Season standings would look like this:
2/25/91 Hockey East
GP W-L-T Pts GF-GA
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1 Boston College 21 15-6-0 30 100-72
Maine 21 14-5-2 30 106-71
Boston University 21 14-5-2 30 99-63
4 Providence 21 10-8-3 23 91-80
New Hampshire 21 10-8-3 23 77-74
6 Merrimack 21 7-13-0 14 68-98
7 Lowell 21 4-15-1 9 64-105
8 Northeastern 21 2-16-3 7 82-124
To break the first place tie look at head-to-head record:
Boston Coll. 4-2 (2-1 Maine 2-1 BU)
Maine 3-3 (1-2 BC 2-1 BU)
Boston Univ. 2-4 (1-2 BC 1-2 Maine)
Now suppose that BU was 2-1 against BC and had lost to say Northeastern once
and BC had gone 3-0 against Merrimack instead of 2-1. Now head-to-head all
three teams are 3-3.
Fourth Place already has worked out perfect. UNH and Providence went 1-1-1
against each other and have identical league records.
How would the ties be broken?
Sorry if no one else cares, but I love thinking about this sort of off the
wall kind of stuff.
-kap
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