> Date: Mon, 5 Dec 1994 16:29:52 -0600 > From: [log in to unmask] > 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 > [log in to unmask] > > "Violence is the last resort of the incompetent." --Isaac Asimov > charlie shub [log in to unmask] -or- cdash@colospgs (BITNET) (719) 593 3492 (fax) 593-3369