Scoring Disparity in Women's NCAA hockey

In the NCAA, scoring is primarily driven by top performing teams, and overall, is driven by top teams beating weaker teams by a wide margin.

Establishing a +/- 20 rank cutoff, we can see that unequal games have in the past 5 years, had one more goal in the game than more even games, while the goal differential extends to be almost 2 full goals more in unequal games.

Using Wisconsin as a case study, we can see that rank difference alone explains 33% of the variance in goal differential in Wisconsin wins.