http://blog.njhockey.org/2007/01/30/division-tiebreakers/ Jonathan Yardley on New Jersey high school ice hockey Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:35:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 http://blog.njhockey.org/2007/01/30/division-tiebreakers/#comment-1611 Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:35:19 +0000 http://blog.njhockey.org/2007/01/30/division-tiebreakers/#comment-1611 Why doesn't the NJ State hockey tournament committee (for tournament selection purposes) and the Star Ledger (for periodic ranking purposes) follow the NJ LAX community by using the computer generated rankings shown at www.laxpower.com/update06/binboy/rating47.php ? This is similar to the Pairwise computer rankings at www.uscho.com/rankings/pwr.php. What do you think of such methods? Why doesn’t the NJ State hockey tournament committee (for tournament selection purposes) and the Star Ledger (for periodic ranking purposes) follow the NJ LAX community by using the computer generated rankings shown at www.laxpower.com/update06/binboy/rating47.php ? This is similar to the Pairwise computer rankings at www.uscho.com/rankings/pwr.php. What do you think of such methods?

]]> http://blog.njhockey.org/2007/01/30/division-tiebreakers/#comment-1607 Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:38:22 +0000 http://blog.njhockey.org/2007/01/30/division-tiebreakers/#comment-1607 jon, the morris county ad's changed the playoff format based on the perception that over the past few years a strong case could be made that the charette teams were equal too if not stronger than the haas teams. the perception that the 5th place haas team merited a playoff bid could not be justified. Remember, charette team han regional had just won the past two cups. because the teams play an unbalenced schedule, the reseeding of team based on records did not make sense. whereas jefferson and pequannock will finish with the two best records, the reality of the situation is that we must all play by the rules as set forth by the league and cannot change the rules to accommodate a perceived injustice. thats the beauty of the playoffs...there are no guarentees. you could make a strong case that in 05-06 mt. olive (10-3 was a more worthy finalist than kinnelon (6-4-2) based on their record agains't a down year haas schedule...or that in 04-05 a roxbury team (12-0-1) and pequannock (10-2-1) should have met in the finals instead of eventual champion han regional (7-4-2) and pequannock. remember, both finalists that year came from the charette division. based on the results of the past few years, the league (i believe correctly) determined that a level of equality existed between the two divisions and that the playoff structure should reflect that change...dave jon, the morris county ad’s changed the playoff format based on the perception that over the past few years a strong case could be made that the charette teams were equal too if not stronger than the haas teams. the perception that the 5th place haas team merited a playoff bid could not be justified. Remember, charette team han regional had just won the past two cups. because the teams play an unbalenced schedule, the reseeding of team based on records did not make sense. whereas jefferson and pequannock will finish with the two best records, the reality of the situation is that we must all play by the rules as set forth by the league and cannot change the rules to accommodate a perceived injustice. thats the beauty of the playoffs…there are no guarentees.
you could make a strong case that in 05-06 mt. olive (10-3 was a more worthy finalist than kinnelon (6-4-2) based on their record agains’t a down year haas schedule…or that in 04-05 a roxbury team (12-0-1) and pequannock (10-2-1) should have met in the finals instead of eventual champion han regional (7-4-2) and pequannock. remember, both finalists that year came from the charette division.
based on the results of the past few years, the league (i believe correctly) determined that a level of equality existed between the two divisions and that the playoff structure should reflect that change…dave

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