I've sent off the latest revisions of the DivI composite and team schedules to the archives. Included are changes to the schedules of some CCHA teams, mainly in several early season games vs Canadian opponents that I did not have before. Thanks to JohnH for providing a copy of the CCHA pocket schedule. One change that affects teams outside the CCHA, is that the trip by Miami and LSSU to visit the ECAC over Thanksgiving has had slight changes. Miami will play SLU 11/25 and Vermont 11/26, and LSSU will play Vermont 11/25 and SLU 11/26. Previously, I had these games reversed. As always, people are welcome to fetch copies of team schedules or the composite from the archives and send changes to me. Chances are your team's schedule has changed somewhat recently. There may be further slight changes over the coming days/weeks; I don't intend to post about every little change that is made. I still plan to update everything during the season at least once a week around Sunday night or Monday morning, and probably more often as time permits. [For new subscribers, sending mail to [log in to unmask] with the command GET HOCKEY-L FILELIST in the body will return a list of all files available in the HOCKEY-L archives.] The standings file, 9495CONF STAND, has only conference standing templates in it, but you will notice that the HE standings are listed differently from the others. My decision was to add an extra column for shootout wins. All shootout games will still be listed as ties in the HE standings (mine, anyway; I have not yet heard that HE has made a final decision, but this was the scenario I suggested to them - it got rave reviews, but no decision has been made yet). The only change is that some of the "ties" will also be listed under "SOW". I included a special note underneath the HE standings to explain this. "W" will NOT include SOW. It means that at least in my standings, it should be very easy to determine a team's NC record, shootout record, etc. Thanks to all who provided input on this. Upon request, I gave Tim Burton at HE all the information he should need to make a decision in terms of various possible scenarios and pluses and minuses of each along with my recommendation. Now we will have to see what happens. To deal with the shootouts, after considering various alternatives, I have decided to list the scores in the composite and in the team schedules the way they will be given by HE (as far as I understand it). That is, a shootout win will be listed as, for example, 11/12/94 New Hampshire 4 at Merrimack 5 so [2-1 SOW, MC] because I feel it is important that people should be able to look at the schedules and see the same scores they see in their papers. The program I have that crunches all the numbers deals with this by correcting the goals for/against and records when it sees the "so" designation instead of "ot". It also interprets "so" as an overtime tie for purposes of determining the overtime and home/away/DivI records that appear at the end of the standings file. It was suggested, by Robin I believe, that the files should contain the scores as they will be viewed by the NC$$ (i.e. above, a 4-4 tie). I did consider this, but in the end, I felt it was more important to remain consistent with what I have been led to believe will be reported officially. I have to apologize up front if this will cause anyone undue hassle who tries to use the output from the schedules for various reasons. I quickly realized that whatever I did, it was going to be confusing in some way. I tried to have it make as much sense as I could, and I think I succeeded. I believe that people who understand how the shootouts will work and how they will affect (or not affect) statistics and records, will be able to easily understand the scores and standings that I will be generating. I hope I am right, and as always, I welcome further comments and ideas. --- --- Mike Machnik [log in to unmask] Cabletron Systems, Inc. *HMM* 11/13/93 <<<<< Color Voice of the Merrimack Warriors (station TBA for 94-95) >>>>>