Post by vbking2020 on Apr 1, 2021 19:34:54 GMT -5
final regular season standings ended up as follows:
#1 Illinois State (11-3). kinda lame that the team that has twice as many cancelled matches (4) as anyone else gets the championship, but their cancelled matches were against the teams that finished tied for 6th, so I suppose they likely would have won most of those 4
Drake and Missouri State both finished with 11-5 records to tie for second., and their matches against each other were cancelled early in the season. The conference announced that Drake got the #2 seed for the conference tournament, with MSU getting the #3, but I'm not sure why. Normally in the case where two teams finished tied, and the tie isn't broken by head-to-head (in normal years, that would be because the teams split their head-to-head series), the tie is broken by a "power rating" where a road win over the #1 team in the standings gets 20 points, a home win over the #1 gets 19, a road win over #2 gets 18, a home win over #2 gets 17 and so on. My spreadsheet that tracks that "power rating" gave Missouri State a slight edge (74 to Drake's 72), but I might have something calculated wrong. Either that, or the conference abandoned that tiebreak this year and just used overall record, which IMO is rather lame. but anyway
Bradley finished at 12-6 to get the #4 seed
Valparaiso finished at 10-8 to get the #5 seed
Loyola and UNI both finished 8-8 to tie for 6th. They split their head-to-head series. The conference gave Loyola the #6 seed, which could be because of overall record, though my "power rating" spreadsheet gave the Ramblers a 10 point edge over UNI, which gets the #7 seed.
Indiana State finished 7-11, giving them the final conference tournament spot with the #8 seed.
Evansville finished 5-13 which puts them at 9th in the standings,
and Southern Illinois ending up at the bottom with a 1-17 conference record.
I would not want to play UNI right now so Drake getting #2 could be a disadvantage
Called it! 😉