The College Hockey Computer Rating
compiled by Keith Instone
 
Includes games on 1/20/91. Last week's ranking includes games on 1/13/91.
 
     Last                      Division I          Schedule Schedule
Rank Week Team                   Record    Rating  Strength   Rank
  1    1  Lake Superior         21  3  4   100.00    61.90      9
  2    2  Boston College        18  6  0    91.06    63.70      6
  3    3  Northern Michigan     20  5  3    89.64    57.06     16
  4    5  Michigan              20  5  3    89.48    59.10     13
  5    9  Maine                 20  6  2    84.90    56.09     17
  6    4  Minnesota             20  4  3    84.80    51.49     24
  7    6  Providence            15  4  1    84.05    51.65     23
  8    8  Boston University     15  6  2    82.17    57.64     15
  9    7  Wisconsin             19  6  2    80.77    54.00     21
 10   11  Clarkson              13  5  1    74.53    50.17     26
 11   10  Ferris State          18  5  5    72.71    47.99     29
 12   15  North Dakota          15 11  2    67.74    59.56     12
 13   14  Michigan State        11 11  5    67.19    65.39      3
 14   13  Cornell                9  4  2    65.29    45.31     34
 15   12  New Hampshire         15  8  1    62.83    46.67     31
 16   16  RPI                   10  7  0    61.56    51.19     25
 17   17  St Lawrence           11  8  1    60.36    53.09     22
 18   19  Bowling Green         11 15  2    56.31    66.70      1
 19   20  Western Michigan      13 12  3    56.03    55.24     19
 20   21  St Cloud              10 13  3    54.47    61.42     10
 21   18  Yale                   8  5  1    52.68    41.66     38
 22   22  Colgate                9  7  3    52.63    44.75     36
 23   23  Harvard                8  8  0    51.38    46.14     32
 24   26  Michigan Tech          9 16  3    51.09    64.16      4
 25   25  Minnesota-Duluth       8 15  5    49.20    63.84      5
 26   24  Alaska-Anchorage       8  9  3    47.34    49.55     27
 27   28  Vermont                9  9  1    44.17    46.02     33
 28   27  Merrimack             11  9  1    43.98    39.78     40
 29   29  Ohio State             8 16  3    43.52    63.28      8
 30   30  Colorado College       7 19  1    39.18    63.51      7
 31   32  Illinois-Chicago       7 18  1    35.74    57.95     14
 32   33  Lowell                 7 15  1    35.61    55.92     18
 33   34  Denver                 5 21  2    32.52    66.21      2
 34   31  Alaska-Fairbanks       8  8  0    32.18    33.28     43
 35   35  Brown                  5  9  3    31.86    48.46     28
 36   36  Princeton              6 11  1    29.44    44.62     37
 37   37  Miami                  4 20  3    24.60    60.85     11
 38   38  Northeastern           4 17  2    22.94    54.37     20
 39   39  Notre Dame             3  9  1    14.22    38.30     41
 40   40  Army                   2 12  3     8.00    40.41     39
 41   43  Kent State             4 11  1     4.77    28.74     44
 42   41  Alabama-Huntsville     3 15  1     1.21    34.15     42
 43   44  Air Force              1 12  1     0.73    47.33     30
 44   42  Dartmouth              1 14  2     0.00    44.86     35
 
The College Hockey Computer Rating uses a connected schedule graph and a
least squares optimization to rate the 44 Division I college hockey teams.
This method considers a team's opponents, and their opponents, etc., until
all 493 Division I games are included.
 
In addition to rating the teams, a strength of schedule is calculated for
each team. The schedule strength can be computed by averaging the ratings
of a team's opponents for each game.
 
The ratings are normalized so that the #1 team receives a 100.00 and #44
gets a 0.00. Thus, the ratings are purely relative numbers, rating a team
based on the rest of college hockey and not on any absolute basis.
 
For every game, the teams are evaluated based on: the outcome (win,
lose, tie); the margin of victory; the site of the game (home, away, neutral
ice); and overtime or regulation time.
 
Only games against other Division I teams are considered.