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Second Half Improvement: 1999-2000 Season

Other factors being equal, teams that perform better down the stretch frequently continue that success into the following season. This modifier is computed by taking the team�s winning percentage over the second eleven games of the conference regular season and subtracting the winning percentage over the first eleven games.

Well, that used to be the way it was done.

Then Vermont screwed up the whole season, so this year we will do something different.  Take the record of each team in the first game against each of the 10 ECAC opponents, and then the record in the second game.  We ignore Vermont (and assign them a .000 value for the metric).

So, Brown went 1-9-0 in first meetings and 3-5-2 in second meetings.  There numbers are: first meeting pts = 2, second meeting points = 8.  2nd-1st = +6, 1/2 metric = +6/20 = +.300

Team  

1st mtg

2nd mtg

difference

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Brown  

2

8 +6

+.300
Clarkson 7 14 +7 +.350
Colgate 14 16 +2 +.100
Cornell 8 13 +5 +.250
Dartmouth 11 7 -4 -.200
Harvard 10 8 -2 -.100
Princeton 10 10 0 .000
RPI 12 10 -2 -.100
St. Lawrence 15 18 +3 +.150
Union 11 2 -9 -.450
Vermont x x x .000
Yale 10 4 -6 -.300