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Prediction for 2018 college hockey championship game

By Dr. Ed Feng Leave a Comment

Minn-Duluth vs Notre Dame: Minn-Duluth has a 45.6% chance to win. Notre Dame has a 34.1% chance to win. There is a 20.3% chance for overtime.

This prediction is based on the college hockey rankings (see below), which originate from offense and defense rankings for 60 Division I teams. These offense and defense rankings imply a goal rate for an offense against an opposing defense.

Based on these goal rates, I use a Poisson process model to calculate the probability for a win, loss or overtime for each game in regulation. If a game is tied, it goes to an overtime in which the first team to score wins.

Here are the team rankings based on offense and defense rankings. The rating after each team gives an expected goals against an average Division I hockey team.

1. St Cloud State, 1.70
2. Denver, 1.61
3. Ohio State, 1.48
4. Minn-Duluth, 1.46
5. Cornell, 1.37
6. Minnesota State, 1.36
7. Clarkson, 1.24
8. Northeastern, 1.19
9. Notre Dame, 1.17
10. Providence, 0.97
11. North Dakota, 0.97
12. Boston College, 0.90
13. Penn State, 0.87
14. Minnesota, 0.80
15. Michigan, 0.79
16. Boston University, 0.75
17. Harvard, 0.63
18. Princeton, 0.61
19. Union, 0.44
20. Wisconsin, 0.32

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