Here is a post that I must respond to that was on USCHO.COM
All you people are making the writers point that there is bias against the Atlantic Hockey. Last two years Atlantic Hockey teams have been playing with every other league and coming out with a lot more wins then they were in years past. Air Force took Miami to the third period with a lead in the NCAAs last year.
OK lets look at the AHA's record against the big four conferences. Wow, the AHA has won 8 games out of 45 against the big four conferences. That is NOT very impressive folks, I wouldn't want to hang my hat on that one. What are we measuring here?
AHA 8-34-3 (.211)
CCHA 14-18-5 (.446)
CHA 8-21-2 (.290)
ECACHL 9-24-2 (.286)
HEA 24-14-3 (.622)
WCHA 18-9-6 (.636)
Here is the KRAH for the AHA there isn't a team with a strenght of schedule over 47 and their numerial order is 47, 48, 49, 51, 52 53, 54, 55, 56, 58. Playing these teams and beating them doesn't nothing for your teams RPI numbers imagine what losing does as well.
11 Air Force 350.4 .7273 1 14-2-0 .8750 7.000 47 50.1
44 Bentley 32.8 .3005 37 6-8-1 .4333 .765 48 42.9
46 RIT 29.5 .2835 35 8-9-1 .4722 .895 52 33.0
47 Mercyhurst 27.4 .2718 39 7-10-2 .4211 .727 51 37.7
48 Canisius 26.3 .2656 28 7-6-4 .5294 1.125 56 23.4
52 Sacred Heart 18.1 .2110 44T 4-10-3 .3235 .478 49 37.8
54 Holy Cross 15.6 .1919 44T 5-11-1 .3235 .478 53 32.7
55 Connecticut 11.1 .1510 49T 4-11-0 .2667 .364 54 30.6
56 Army 10.0 .1391 46 4-9-1 .3214 .474 58 21.0
57 American Int'l 9.3 .1320 54 4-13-0 .2353 .308 55 30.2
Posted originally here.
