Confusion about Big Ten Hockey Standings

Submitted by ZooWolverine on February 19th, 2022 at 4:35 PM

Alex Drain's Hockey Weekly from Feb. 14 gives the Big Ten hockey standings at that point, which have Michigan in the lead over Minnesota by 45 points to 43. It gives Michigan a 14-3-0-3 conference record, and Minnesota a 13-4-1-2 record.

However, I just looked at the standings on the Big Ten's website and it has Minnesota in the lead by 1 point, 46-45. Both teams won their Friday night games, so they should each have 3 more points. The difference between the two standings is that the Big Ten site gives both schools a 15-6-0 conference record, listing overtime wins/losses in a separate column, and giving Minnesota a 0-1 record in OT, and listing Michigan as 0-0.

Can anyone explain what's going on? I would assume the standings on the Big Ten's website are correct, but I went to mgoblue's hockey schedule to double check. That just confused me more: Michigan's conference record is listed as 15-6-0-0, but looking at the individual games show 3 OT losses in conference: two to ND and one to Minnesota. Do those games not get an OT point for some reason?

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JonnyHintz

February 19th, 2022 at 4:43 PM ^

To add to the confusion, if you click “more” in the Big Ten Standings page and click “standings” again, it then shows the correct standing with Michigan at 48 points and Minnesota at 46.

So the B1G is simultaneously showing two different standings on their website.

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WCHBlog

February 19th, 2022 at 4:55 PM ^

The Big Ten gave their conference title to the wrong team last year because they forgot that hockey games can end in a tie. I wouldn't trust their website.

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Richard75

February 19th, 2022 at 5:10 PM ^

The initial standings page is wrong; the click-through one is right.

What’s especially odd is there’s no apparent pattern to the error. Some OT losses are listed, some aren’t. OSU is listed as having 2 OT wins and a shootout win, but that’s incorrect. They have one of each.

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Team 101

February 19th, 2022 at 5:57 PM ^

A regulation win is 3 points

An overtime or shoutout win is 2 points

An overtime or shootout loss is 1 point.

A regulation loss is zero.

We have 15 wins all in regulation and 6 losses of which 3 were in overtime so we have 48 points. (15 x 3 + 3 x 1)

The Gophers have 15 wins one of which was in overtime and 6 losses 2 of which were in overtime so they have 46 points.  (14X3 + 1x2 + 2x1)

It is correct on CollegeHockeyNews.com

 

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Padog

February 19th, 2022 at 6:51 PM ^

So with each team playing three more games, the max amount of points Minnesota can finish with is 55. Two regulation and one overtime win gets us to 56. Of course this is also assuming a Minnesota sweep, them dropping a game (they are down 3-0 to Penn State right now) would help tremendously. 

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Worthing

February 19th, 2022 at 6:05 PM ^

slightly OT, but interesting and with hockey. it looks like at least a couple of minnesota's olympians are back tonight, but not knies. as already noted elsewhere, michigan's us players are back but not playing and canadians will be back monday.

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