Here are the Pairwise Rankings after Friday's games:
 
1999-2000 Division I Men's Pairwise Rankings (PWR)
 
Rk Team                GP  W- L- T  Win%  Rk     RPI  Rk  PWR
  1 Wisconsin           35 27- 7- 1 0.7857  2 | 0.6159  1 | 25
  2 North Dakota        34 22- 7- 5 0.7206  4 | 0.5951  3 | 23
  3 Boston University   36 22- 7- 7 0.7083  8 | 0.5915  4 | 23
  4 New Hampshire       33 20- 7- 6 0.6970  9 | 0.5958  2 | 22
  5 Maine               33 21- 7- 5 0.7121  7 | 0.5909  5 | 20
  6 St Lawrence         28 19- 7- 2 0.7143  5 | 0.5811  6 | 20
  7 Michigan            35 24- 7- 4 0.7429  3 | 0.5797  7 | 18
  8 Quinnipiac          27 20- 4- 3 0.7963  1 | 0.5725  9 | 18
  9 Colgate             28 19- 7- 2 0.7143  5 | 0.5687 10 | 18
10 Niagara             26 17- 7- 2 0.6923 10 | 0.5666 11 | 17
11 Boston College      33 22-10- 1 0.6818 11 | 0.5747  8 | 15
12 Michigan State      35 21-10- 4 0.6571 12 | 0.5506 12 | 14
13 St Cloud            31 17-11- 3 0.5968 14 | 0.5438 13 | 14
14 MSU-Mankato         31 17-11- 3 0.5968 14 | 0.5333 16 | 12
15 Minnesota           35 17-16- 2 0.5143 25 | 0.5430 14 | 11
16 Colorado College    36 18-15- 3 0.5417 23 | 0.5367 15 | 10
17 Rensselaer          32 18-12- 2 0.5938 16 | 0.5302 17 |  7
18 Ferris State        33 17-14- 2 0.5455 20 | 0.5269 19 |  7
19 Northern Michigan   35 21-10- 4 0.6571 12 | 0.5295 18 |  6
20 Clarkson            30 14-13- 3 0.5167 24 | 0.5214 20 |  6
21 Providence          35 18-15- 2 0.5429 22 | 0.5179 21 |  5
22 Lake Superior       33 17-14- 2 0.5455 20 | 0.5046 24 |  5
23 Canisius            23 13- 9- 1 0.5870 17 | 0.5139 22 |  4
24 Cornell             26 12-12- 2 0.5000 26 | 0.4949 26 |  3
25 Sacred Heart        25 13- 9- 3 0.5800 18 | 0.4908 27 |  2
26 Iona                25 13- 9- 3 0.5800 18 | 0.4888 29 |  0
 
 
The Pairwise Ranking is the ranking system used by the NCAA Selection
Committee to determine participants for the NCAA
Division I men's hockey tournament. The PWR compares only those at or above
.500, judging them by five criteria: record
against common opponents, record in last 16 games, head to head
competition, record against other teams at or above .500,
and the Ratings Percentage Index (RPI).
 
For each comparison won, a team receives one point. The final PWR ranking
is based on the number of points (comparisons)
won against teams at or above .500. Ties are settled by the RPI.
 
You can see the complete list of all the individual comparisons. Warning:
this file is very large.
 
A more complete explanation of the workings of the PWR is also available.
 
The PWR can be reformatted and redistributed by any media outlet or person,
provided USCHO's URL
(http://www.uscollegehockey.com/) accompanies the results.
 
Note: A team's record is based only on games against other Division I
hockey schools which are eligible for the NCAA
Tournament. In particular, only non-exhibition matchups between schools in
the six major conferences count towards a team's
record as used in the RPI and PWR. Other games, including contests against
Canadian schools and tournament-ineligible D-I
programs, are not counted.
 
 
-dt