Kevin Powers wondered how my proposed method would have done in years past. So, I ran it for last year's tournament. Here goes. Conference Bids-- Tournament champions: RPI, LSSU, BU, Wisconsin RS champions: CC, Michigan, Clarkson, Maine Two teams from each conference already, so conference bids are filled. Move to the At-large bids-- Teams finishing 2nd in RS or Tournament and .500 or better: Princeton, Brown, BGSU, MSU That gives twelve teams. Yes, 4 ECAC teams. But wait, it gets better! Determine bye team from each conference: ECAC: RPI over Clarkson 1-0-1!!! HE: Maine over BU 2-0-2 CCHA: Michigan over LSSU 3-1 WCHA: Wisconsin over CC 2-1 Determine number 1 seed in each region: Maine over RPI 1-0. Michigan over Wisconsin 1-0. Seeds so far: West East 1 Michigan Maine 2 Wisconsin RPI!!! 3 <ccha> <he> 4 <wcha> <ecac> 5 <ccha> <he> 6 <wcha> <ecac> Determine order of seeds within each conference: ECAC: Three-way tie, Clarkson wins 4-1, Princeton second at 4-4, and Brown third with 2-5. HE: BU is the only team. CCHA: Three-way tie, with MSU winning 5-3-1, LSSU second at 3-3-1, and BGSU third with 3-5. WCHA: CC is the only team Seeds before swapping: West East 1 Michigan Maine 2 Wisconsin RPI 3 MSU BU 4 CC Clarkson 5 LSSU Princeton 6 BGSU Brown Swapping: #6 teams swap, #5 teams swap. Final seedings and locations: Madison Worcester 1 Michigan Maine 2 Wisconsin RPI 3 MSU BU 4 CC Clarkson 5 Princeton LSSU 6 Brown BGSU First round matchups: Brown vs. MSU CC vs. Princeton BGSU vs. BU LSSU vs. Clarkson Second round matchups: RPI vs. BU-BGSU winner Maine vs. Clarkson-LSSU winner Michigan vs. CC-Princeton winner Wisconsin vs. MSU-Brown winner So last year, my system would have had Princeton, Brown and Bowling Green in, Minnesota, Denver and UNH at home. Only three of the seeds were the same: Clarkson, LSSU and Michigan Last years seeds: Madison Worcester 1 Michigan BU 2 CC Maine 3 Minnesota UNH 4 Wisconsin Clarkson 5 MSU LSSU 6 RPI BGSU RPI seeded second in the east!! I love this system. Of course, no way it could help them this year. ---------- Kurt Stutt http://www.rpi.edu/~stuttk/hockey.html [log in to unmask] The College Hockey Historical Archives Troy, New York http://www.rpi.edu/~stuttk/wrpispts.html WRPI Sports Homepage HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.