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Message: [QUOTE="freescooter, post: 4536003, member: 1023"] Yes. Another difference is that while you can rank leagues a bit, there aren’t such great differences as there are in other sports. It isn’t like basketball where the NEC is a whole different levels than the Big 10. If Hockey East and AHA played an interlocking schedule HEA would have a winning record but it wouldn’t go undefeated I don’t think. Individual teams might but the league? Case in point AHA won 5-13-2 against HEA this season. Doubtful. If the New Big East played the NEC, I think it is pretty likely thatGeorgetown would be the sole team in danger of losing but they would likely win out too. Last data I could find the NBE was 8-0 vs the NEC last year. That in my view makes it much more difficult to decide who is really deserving of a bid. I personally hate doing it by computer because the reality is that bids 10-16 and probably the next 4 or 5 are pretty much equals. And despite everyone’s best efforts, the system contains implicit biases that nobody will recognize. [/QUOTE]