What If? The 2019 NCAA Women’s Hockey Tournament Pairwise Predictor

*Be patient after making changes. It can take a few seconds for the sheet to recalculate.*

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For years, USCHO has provided a fantastic tool allowing you to plug in theoretical results of the men’s hockey conference tournaments and see its results on the Pairwise rankings. Unfortunately, a similar tool was never available for women’s hockey.

But as they say, necessity is the mother of invention. So here at BC Interruption, we built it ourselves. This is the fifth year of the BCI Women’s Pairwise Predictor, and version 5.0 carries over the same great features from past years.

The interface is pretty self-explanatory — just follow the instructions on the sheet. Starting with the CHA final weekend games on the bottom right, use the drop-down menus to select who you think will win each game, progress next to the conference quarterfinals, and then move across to the “Finals” and “Champion” columns.

The “Semis” column will autopopulate with matchups based on conference tournament re-seeding rules once you input the quarterfinals results, and the next round’s drop-downs will turn on once you complete the previous round’s selections. If you make a selection that’s not possible (for example, if you select BC winning in the “Finals” but then go back and make them lose in the “Semis”), the Predictor will inform you of the error and highlight the field(s) you need to fix.

As you input results, the box at the top right will update to show the resulting Pairwise Rankings. Be patient, as it can take a few seconds for the rankings to re-calculate. Once all results are entered, the 4 autobids will be added to the field. The autobids will not update until all results are entered. The first two teams out will be provided as well, to see how close they were to making the field.

Feel free to ask questions or let us know of any bug reports, either in the comments or by email at grant dot salzano at gmail dot com.