Bracketology
Welcome to the next installment of our Bracketology, and this is the last one until our final predictions for the bracket late Saturday night. If you want to skip the inner workings and get to the results of the analysis, then click here. Here are the facts: • Sixteen teams are selected to participate in … Read more
Let’s play “What I Believe” again. Before we play, I need to put out a disclaimer. There are a lot of scenarios out there and I don’t have an algorithm, or computer program to look at it (though someone should write one for me), so “What I Believe” is only what I have taken a … Read more
So, play with the PairWise Predictor, and see what fun you can have. For example, the CCHA can have a minimum of three teams in the tournament, but what is the maximum? I have not been able to find a way to get seven CCHA teams into the tournament. Six, yes, but seven? Not yet. … Read more
With the final four teams set in each conference — or six, in the case of the WCHA — USCHO.com’s PairWise Predictor is now live. We’d like to see your scenarios. Can you come up with some strange combinations that put your favorite team in, or your hated nemesis out? How high or low can … Read more
Welcome to the next installment of our Bracketology, and we’ll keep bringing you a new one every week until we make our final picks before the field is announced. If you want to skip the inner workings and get to the results of the analysis, then click here. Here are the facts: • Sixteen teams … Read more
Welcome to the next installment of our Bracketology, and we’ll keep bringing you a new one every week until we make our final picks before the field is announced. If you want to skip the inner workings and get to the results of the analysis, then click here. Here are the facts: • Sixteen teams … Read more
Welcome to the next installment of our Bracketology, and we’ll keep bringing you a new one every week until we make our final picks before the field is announced. If you want to skip the inner workings and get to the results of the analysis, then click here. Here are the facts: • Sixteen teams … Read more
Welcome to the next installment of our Bracketology, and we’ll keep bringing you a new one every week until we make our final picks before the field is announced. If you want to skip the inner workings and get to the results of the analysis, then click here. Here are the facts: • Sixteen teams … Read more
Welcome to the next installment of our Bracketology, and we’ll keep bringing you a new one every week until we make our final picks before the field is announced. If you want to skip the inner workings and get to the results of the analysis, then click here. Here are the facts: • Sixteen teams … Read more
Welcome back to the next installment of our Bracketology, and we’ll keep bringing you a new one every week until we make our final picks before the field is announced. If you want to skip the inner workings and get to the results of the analysis, then click here. Here are the facts: • Sixteen … Read more
In the first installment of Bracketology for 2012, Jayson Moy finds he has to move around some games between No. 1 seeds and No. 4 seeds.
An old friend of mine, a retired sports information director, beats everyone on his list to the punch by sending out his Christmas cards early. He beat his own record this year: I received his card yesterday. (Thanks, Roger!) We’ve sent out our Christmas card to statistical fanatics a bit early, too. It’s way too … Read more
Finally we have a bracket and finally I nailed the bracket on the money. But, this one was relatively easy to gather from all the information out there. I think the committee walked into the room and five minutes later they were finished. I have no complaints at all. The process worked exactly like the … Read more
Our field is set. Air Force and Rensselaer get the final two spots. The teams in the field: Yale North Dakota Boston College Miami Michigan Merrimack Denver Union Minnesota-Duluth Western Michigan Notre Dame Nebraska-Omaha New Hampshire Colorado College Rensselaer Air Force There you have it. Bracket prediction to come.
With Michigan and Dartmouth’s wins in the third-place games, the picture becomes very clear. There’s one spot left, as UNO and CC have now clinched their places in the tournament. It comes down to Cornell or Rensselaer. A Cornell win puts the Big Red into the tournament, a Cornell loss puts Rensselaer into the tournament.
Let’s get on to the nitty gritty shall we? Here is what I believe: Yale, North Dakota, Boston College, Miami, Denver, Merrimack, Michigan, Union, Minnesota-Duluth, Notre Dame, Western Michigan, New Hampshire and either RIT or Air Force are all in. That’s 13 teams. There are three spots left out there, and those three spots will … Read more
Three of four number one seeds have been claimed. Yale, North Dakota and Boston College have all claimed number one seeds. We can go a little further and say that Yale will be in Bridgeport and North Dakota will most likely be in Green Bay (there are strange situations which might not put North Dakota … Read more
With Bemidji State losing, that collective sigh of relief you heard came from Nebraska-Omaha, Rensselaer, Boston University and Maine. One less chance of someone outside the Top 16 getting an autobid. Perhaps a few more sighs coming in the next hour or two after Colgate and Northeastern results.
After two WCHA games on Thursday night, here is basically what happened. Colorado College bolstered its chances of getting into the tournament, in turn dampening the spirits of Maine, Boston University, Rensselaer and Nebraska-Omaha (in that order). Bemidji State winning makes everyone’s hearts jumps because Bemidji can take away on of those Top 15 spots. … Read more