2015 EHCC Playoffs By The Numbers

Take a deep dive into the 2015 EHCC playoffs with Hubert Fitznerdlinger! Revised and Expanded for the 2015 playoffs!

4   - Times that Weymouth has won the EHCC championship, an EHCC record

0   - Number of times that Weymouth has won a championship so without being a #2 seed

1   - Incredibly, the number of times that Weymouth has been the #1 seed in the playoffs. Despite the record number of championships, this is the first time Weymouth has actually been the best team in the league during the regular season.

2   - Times that Rio has been the #2 seed in the playoffs. The last time, in 2012, they were defeated in the Championship game by #4 seed Rakeville.

6   - Times in 15 seasons that the #1 Seed has won the championship, including the last two seasons (Quebec City in 2014, and Santo Domingo in 2013).

4 - Times in 14 seasons that the #2 Seed has won the championship. The last time it happened was in 2008, when Las Vegas took home the title.

2   - Number of times the #6 seed has won the EHCC championship (Arlington in 2007, and Bridgewater in 2010)

0   - Number of times the #3 seed has won the EHCC championship (Rakeville won as #4 in 2012, and Bridgewater as #5 in 2009, comprising the remaining seeds to have won the 14 EHCC championships prior to this tournament)

5 – Number of times that the previous season’s EHCC champion has failed to make the playoffs the following season.

3 – Seasons in a row that has happened, a streak halted by Quebec City’s inclusion in this year’s playoff field.

3 – Number of times the #2 seed has actually had the 3^rd best record in the EHCC (due to the division format, the team with the best record in each division gets the Bye). Despite having a better record, Las Vegas ends up with a 3 seed, while Rio gets the #2 seed. The same thing happened most recently in 2012, again with Rio, who ended up with a 2 seed despite Weymouth’s superior record. Rio would go on to beat Weymouth in the 2^nd round of the playoffs that year on a tiebreaker. It also happened to Tokyo in 2010 (they would go on to lose in the first round to Bridgewater).

2 – Number of teams who made the 2015 playoffs that did not make the playoffs in 2014 (Dublin and San Juan replace Rakeville and Tijuana, who both flamed out spectacularly in the first round last year, losing 8-1 and 7-2, respectively).

11  - Number of consecutive years that Bridgewater made the EHCC playoffs, an EHCC record

0    - Number of times Bridgewater has made the playoffs since that streak ended in 2012

4 – Consecutive years both Bridgewater and Augusta have missed the playoffs, tied for the longest active streaks in the league.

10  - Respective number of dollars STILL owed by Augusta to each various team he wagered with, after losing his playoff bet in the 2014 season.

14  - Number of times Weymouth has made the playoffs, extending their EHCC record. They've only missed the playoffs once (in 2010) in the history of the league

7    - Number of different teams to have won the EHCC championship (Weymouth, Las Vegas, Arlington, Bridgewater, Quebec City, Rakeville, and Santo Domingo), a number that remains the same from last year’s version after Quebec City’s 2^nd Championship in 2014.

6    - Number of those teams still competing in the EHCC (Arlington was contracted following the 2012 season)

1    - Number of teams who will be left standing in 3 weeks. Good luck to all the teams still playing meaningful games in the EHCC this year!

Hubert Fitznerdlinger is the EHCC Junior Historian. He's hoping to be promoted to the Senior Historian someday, but has so far balked at the horrible, horrible things he'd be required to do in order to make it happen. Horrible things.