Thanks to Lynn Burke, I've added the Fairfield schedule to the DivI composite, and the team schedules of Fairfield and its DivI opponents have been updated. This weekend I started to look at how to handle the shootouts in Hockey East this season. I plan to check with Tim Burton of HE to see if an agreement has been made on how to report the conference standings, but I still need to decide how to indicate in the composite that a game was decided by shootout. A typical line in the composite is the following: 12/08/93 Providence 4 at Merrimack 5 HE ot What if this game was decided by shootout? Currently, I have decided to do the following: * Take the final score after ot and add a goal to the total of the team winning the shootout. * In place of the "ot" designation, indicate that the game was decided by shootout with "so". That would give us 12/08/93 Providence 4 at Merrimack 5 HE so and from this, it should be easy to deduce that the game was tied 4-4 after regulation and ot, but that Merrimack won by shootout. I may even add a notation on the score of the shootout, such as 12/08/93 Providence 4 at Merrimack 5 HE so [3-2] indicating that Merrimack won the shootout 3-2. Does anyone have any comments or a better suggestion? I know a number of people download this file to use for various reasons, such as input to stat programs, which is why I post this to all. I am sure whatever I decide will affect some people, including some who I didn't know were doing anything with the file. Now is a good time to voice your concerns. For example, a possible source of confusion is that although Merrimack is listed with a score of 5 above, their goals for actually only increases by 4. You don't count the shootout goals in a team's league/overall GF-GA. My own program that generates standings and schedules will see the "so" designation, figure out who won the shootout and game by the score, and then update each team's stats accordingly - add 4 GF instead of 5 to MC, add 4 GA instead of 5 to PC, give PC an additional point in the league, etc. The real hassle is making sure that these games are recorded as wins & SO losses for HE purposes but as ties overall, but it isn't all that difficult to deal with, knock on wood. --- --- Mike Machnik [log in to unmask] Cabletron Systems, Inc. *HMM* 11/13/93 <<<<< Color Voice of the Merrimack Warriors (station TBA for 94-95) >>>>>