Sunday, February 13, 2011

KMHA-SMHA Peewee B Interlock Playoff Format

Hi Team,

The Peewee B playoffs will be after the March break and the format with Stittsville and Kanata will be as follows:

The round robin weights the other teams according to where they finished during the regular season. The higher a team finished, the easier their playoff round-robin. The difficulty column below shows the total finish of all the teams they have to play, so the lower the score, the harder the schedule.

It's a four game round robin. For example, 3rd place finish will have round robin games against the teams that finished in 4th, 6th, 8th and 9th place.

finish






difficulty

1

plays

11

5

9

10

35

2

plays

11

7

6

8

32

3

plays

4

8

6

9

27

4

plays

7

5

3

10

25

5

plays

8

4

1

10

23

6

plays

2

11

3

7

23

7

plays

2

4

9

6

21

8

plays

5

3

11

2

21

9

plays

3

10

7

1

21

10

plays

5

9

4

1

19

11

plays

1

6

8

2

17


Once the round-robin is complete, the top four teams will move on. In the case of a tie in points in the round robin, the tie-breakers will be:

  1. The head-to-head result involving the teams tied (two-way ties only).
  2. The team with the most wins during round robin games.
  3. The best ratio of Goals For /(Goals For + Goals Against), in round-robin games.
  4. The team with the most goals scored.
  5. The regular season finish.

The teams then play in one game semi-final eliminations (1 vs 4, 2 vs 3), and the winners play in a one game final.

Both semi final games will be on the same day and the final will be a different day.

There will be no overtime in round robin games. Format for overtime in the semi-final and final games:

First overtime period: A sudden-death period comprised of three (3) minutes stop time in length with teams playing with four (4) skaters plus a goaltender. Substitutions are allowed.

Second overtime period (if necessary): A sudden-death period comprised of three (3) minutes stop time in length with teams playing with three (3) skaters plus a goaltender. Substitutions are allowed.

Third overtime period (if necessary): A sudden-death period comprised of three (3) minutes stop time in length with teams playing with two (2) skaters plus a goaltender. Substitutions are allowed.

Fourth overtime period (if necessary): A sudden-death period comprised of ten (10) minutes stop time in length with teams playing with one (1) skater plus a goaltender. Substitutions are allowed. Should the game remained tied after the fourth overtime period, subsequent ten (10) minute stop time periods with each team playing with one (1) skater and a goaltender will be played until a goal is scored.

2 comments:

  1. Anthony - have you considered splitting the league into two pools and having the top and bottom halves of the league play off agains each other - i.e., the weaker teams get to play against teams of more compariable results.

    As it stands, the last place team - kids who've not had much success all year - is going to finish the season against the top top ranked teams...

    I'm actually thinking about this in terms of retention rates for next season. Yes, kids are going to quit hockey from one year to the next. You likely know more whether the attrition rate is higher on losing teams. Would the retention rate be any higher if the lower ranked teams had a (slightly?) better chance of winning their final games playing against similarly ranked teams?

    (BTW - my kid is not on one of these teams, we're currently close to the top of the table)

    Just a thought,

    Al

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  2. I can vouch for the positives of the format mentioned by Al C, as it is used in Little League baseball and provides those lower teams with an extra push near the end of the season. Teams would compete for an A side and a B side playoff victory and the chance to call themselves A side or B side champions. If you think about it, it gives the opportunity for 4 teams (instead of 2) to feel good about themselves and end the season on a high note by playing in the "finals" for their respective brackets. Local little league does this when more than 6 teams are in a division...the only challenge is in where to make the "split" if there are an odd number of teams or a disproportionate split in the records (say an 11 team loop with 3-4 teams way over .500 and the rest at .500 or below). Again, I believe it works well and is worth considering.
    Mark McConnell

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