College Hockey:

NCAA proposes tweak to common opponents criteria for tournament selection

I have completed an analysis of last year’s Pairwise looking at instances among tournament teams and those on the bubble where a change in this component would flip the comparison.  Not a single thing changed.  So whatever the reason for this change, it isn’t the usual “We didn’t like what happened last year so we’re making a rule against it so it never happens again (see: Wisconsin and Vermont).”

This needs to be looked at from the perspective of keeping any and all BCS type factors out of COllege hockey, ensuring that all teams have the same fair and equal opportunity to compete for National Championships regardless of the Conference Flag they play under.
So does this formula in some create an easier path for more  teams from any single “super conference, or so called top conference”to gain multiple entrants, at the expense of those considered to not be. 
Should this prove to be a move by big conferences, it needs to be negated right away.  College hockey needs to remain as unbiased as possible in NCAA selections.   The way the Big Ten and other money conferences ruined college football can not be allowed to happen in hockey.

“Conversely, going 0–1 against a team would mean the same as going 0–5, decreasing the negative impact on a team’s score.”This alone speaks volumes as to the intent of the proposed change.  The change is by design being put up by the “power” confrences so as to aid them in gaining multiple selections for the NCAA.  There for a bottom feeder like ohio state, if they get squashed as they will in the B10-CCHA and fair well in OCC play they are more likely to earn a NCAA birth.  This can not be allowed to happen.  It has to remain teams with the best records, period.  Thus if ohio state looses 3 to Western, 2 to BGSU and 4 MSU they do not earn a birth.  It has to be and remain do well in your CONFERENCE, not that you play in some ” better conference in speculation” but that you take care of business.I have no thoughts on d3 but it too should be free of selection comittiesI personally feel that they could and should take only the top teams from each confernces, as evenyl distributed as possible.