At 8:19 PM 2/21/96, Charlie Shub wrote: >based on glen's numbers and the RPI numbers, I've speculated >who would be in the tournament and how they would be seeded. >first, i eliminated maine. Now the obvious seeds are > > > west east >1 CC BU >2 minnesota vermont >3 western mich clarkson >4 mich state lowell >5 mich st. lawrence >6 lssu cornell >7 denver >8 bowling green My question is, why do you go by the RPI and the other ratings Glen lists? = That isn't the method that will be used. Using the pairwise comparison= method, which is up on the College Hockey Home Page and is posted to= INFO-HOCKEY-L by Tim Brule, the top 12 teams other than Maine are: west east 1 CC (2) BU (1) 2 minnesota (3) vermont (9) 3 western mich (4) clarkson (11) 4 michigan (5) lowell (12) 5 msu (6) 6 lssu (8) 7 denver (10) 8 bowling green (13) Overall ranking is in parentheses. Top 12 teams other than Maine were= taken, then ranked by region. The question then is, how will the crossovers be determined? If the top= four teams in each region are kept home, as has been done in the past, then= the bottom two West teams would play in the East (Denver, BG). Re-seeding the East, Denver hops up to third ahead of Clarkson because of= overall ranking: west east 1 CC (2) BU (1) 2 minnesota (3) vermont (9) 3 western mich (4) denver (10) 4 michigan (5) clarkson (11) 5 msu (6) lowell (12) 6 lssu (8) bowling green (13) Note that only one ranking separates Vermont and Denver, and that if they= flip-flopped, Denver would be seeded second and get a bye. Next question= is, would the committee choose to do this and give Denver a bye when they= ranked only 7th in their region? Maybe...maybe not. Perhaps they would= send a higher ranked team East and give them the bye. Right now, who knows= . This all presumes, of course, that the pairwise method used is correct (it= currently includes games vs Maine, but we do not know for certain if these= games will be included) and that all of the conf reg season and tourney= champs come from these 12 teams. Seems to me that once you get that pairwise comparison done correctly, the= rest is (almost?) a piece of cake. No need to worry about the RPI or= anything else since it is incorporated into the pairwise method. The big= question is who crosses over. This is where we could see a precedent set,= if they choose to send East a higher ranked team to get the bye. --- --- Mike Machnik [log in to unmask] *HMM* 11/13/93 >> Co-owner of the College Hockey Lists at University of Maine System << ***** Unofficial Merrimack Hockey home page located at: ***** ***** http://www.tiac.net/users/machnik/MChockey/MChockey.html ***** HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.