Below are listed the YAM2 rankings as of last weekend.   The
YAM2 is an intuitively based simple formula which seeks to measure
accomplishment over the course of the season.   It will not identify the
teams which are currently hot,  but views the season as a whole.
 
        YAM2 = (Win%) x (Strength of Sched.)
 
        Strength of schedule is quantified the same way as in RPI:  namely
2 parts Opp% added to 1 part Opp-Opp%.   In this implementation the strength
of schedule is normalized to the value of the stongest schedule (Minnesota
this week).   Also,  as in the RPI,  the head to head games are subtracted
from the records before calculating the averages in order to prevent
"inverse" effects on the ranking metric.
 
        YAM2 will not raise a ranking if a team goes to Maine and loses two
games.  It also gives equal weight to win% and strength of schedule.
 
Rankings as of 2/13/95:
 
 YAM2  RPI                         W-L%     Norm.      YAM2
 Rank  Rank                                Sched.    Metric
 
  1     3   Maine                 0.849     0.917     0.778
  2     1   Boston_University     0.768     0.998     0.767
  3     2   Michigan              0.796     0.959     0.764
  4     4   Colorado_College      0.750     0.918     0.689
  5     6   New_Hampshire         0.707     0.936     0.661
  6     7   Clarkson              0.720     0.911     0.656
  7     5   Minnesota             0.617     1.000     0.617
  8     10  Denver                0.650     0.911     0.592
  9     11  Bowling_Green         0.661     0.888     0.586
  10    9   Michigan_State        0.625     0.928     0.580
  11    14  Harvard               0.595     0.911     0.542
  12    13  Princeton             0.571     0.929     0.531
  13    12  Wisconsin             0.548     0.954     0.523
  14    16  Brown                 0.571     0.909     0.519
  15    18  Vermont               0.577     0.898     0.518
  16    8   Northeastern          0.518     0.995     0.515
  17    17  Lake_Superior         0.554     0.917     0.508
  18    19  Miami                 0.550     0.907     0.499
  19    15  Michigan_Tech         0.500     0.959     0.480
  20    23  Colgate               0.540     0.880     0.475
  21    25  RPI                   0.540     0.870     0.470
  22    22  Western_Michigan      0.483     0.924     0.447
  23    21  North_Dakota          0.450     0.948     0.427
  24    26  Mass_Lowell           0.469     0.905     0.424
  25    32  Merrimack             0.482     0.878     0.423
  26    24  Minnesota-Duluth      0.452     0.929     0.420
  27    29  Ferris_State          0.464     0.903     0.419
  28    20  St_Cloud              0.417     0.981     0.409
  29    34  Illinois-Chicago      0.431     0.882     0.380
  30    30  Boston_College        0.393     0.945     0.371
  31    31  Alaska-Anchorage      0.393     0.939     0.369
  32    27  Northern_Michigan     0.383     0.957     0.367
  33    28  St_Lawrence           0.370     0.965     0.357
  34    36  Providence            0.397     0.894     0.355
  35    33  Yale                  0.386     0.916     0.354
 35T    35  Cornell               0.395     0.896     0.354
  37    38  Union                 0.357     0.858     0.306
  38    37  Dartmouth             0.333     0.912     0.304
  39    40  Notre_Dame            0.259     0.884     0.229
  40    39  Alaska-Fairbanks      0.250     0.908     0.227
  41    41  Mass_Amherst          0.204     0.890     0.181
  42    42  Ohio_State            0.185     0.872     0.161
  43    43  Air_Force             0.184     0.832     0.153
  44    44  Army                  0.111     0.785     0.087
 
        Comments:   Maine moves into number 1,  BU into number 2,  Michigan
drops to number 3,  and Minnesota moves from 10 to 7  --  based on the
compilation done for last week but not posted publicly.
 
        -- Dick Tuthill
 
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