Olympic Home/Visitor Tiebreak System

[forest29]

Read in the sports page this am that goal differential counts toward home ice advantage ONLY if the two teams have NOT played each other earlier in the tournament. Article stated that the "little known IIHF rule trumps statistical tie-breakers such as won-loss records and goal differential."

:wtf:

It is being applied in the Canada/Swe women's gold medal game today. Canada was the home team in their first meeting and is the visitor today, despite having kicked Swe's ass 8-1 their first meeting.

Something to keep an eye on as we cap the remaining men's games... :scared

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/olympics/2002814674_olynotes19.html

 

[ahhruff]

Read in the sports page this am that goal differential counts toward home ice advantage ONLY if the two teams have NOT played each other earlier in the tournament. Article stated that the "little known IIHF rule trumps statistical tie-breakers such as won-loss records and goal differential."

:wtf:

It is being applied in the Canada/Swe women's gold medal game today. Canada was the home team in their first meeting and is the visitor today, despite having kicked Swe's ass 8-1 their first meeting.

Something to keep an eye on as we cap the remaining men's games... :scared

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/olympics/2002814674_olynotes19.html

Why does this matter? The only thing I see it changing is the color of uniform each team wears.

 

[forest29]

The advantage is that the home team gets to make the final line change...

 

[forest29]

And us cappers have been operating under the assumption that teams would pile on or go all out to get the tiebreak advantage.

Got it?

 

[forest29]

Why does this matter? The only thing I see it changing is the color of uniform each team wears.

The advantage is that the home team gets to make the final line change...

And if you had bothered to read the link, you MIGHT HAVE NOTICED THIS.

 

[ahhruff]

I did read the link. I missed the last sentence though. I didn't mean to come across sounding like a dick.

 

[forest29]

That's cool. GL tomorrow.