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Heal Point System Rank for Men's Division I College Hockey, Final Standings
Compiled by Wayne T. Smith
This report includes results from 763 Division I games.
HEAL Last RPI
Rank Week Rank School Played Record P.I. T.I.
1 1 2 Michigan 36 28- 7- 1 31.67 151.28
2 3 1 Boston University 37 28- 6- 3 31.89 148.83
3 2 3 Maine 40 29- 5- 6 32.00 147.92
4 4 4 Minnesota 41 23-13- 5 24.88 130.13
5 6 6 Colorado College 42 30-11- 1 29.05 126.78
6 7 5 New Hampshire 35 22- 9- 4 27.43 126.30
7 5 8 Clarkson 35 22- 9- 4 27.43 126.02
8 9 9 Wisconsin 41 23-14- 4 24.39 121.82
9 8 11 Denver 40 24-14- 2 25.00 115.90
10 14 10 Lake Superior 39 22-11- 6 25.64 114.72
11 10 7 Michigan State 38 24-11- 3 26.84 113.66
12 11 14 Vermont 35 19-14- 2 22.86 110.99
13 12 15 Princeton 33 17-13- 3 22.42 108.05
14 18 18 RPI 35 18-13- 4 22.86 102.92
15 13 12 Bowling Green 37 24-11- 2 27.03 102.63
16 15 16 North Dakota 39 18-18- 3 20.00 99.45
17 17 17 Brown 30 15-12- 3 22.00 97.08
18 16 19 Colgate 36 19-16- 1 21.67 94.40
19 19 13 Northeastern 35 16-14- 5 21.14 93.35
20 20 23 Harvard 30 14-14- 2 20.00 91.94
21 21 20 Miami 39 18-15- 6 21.54 87.29
22 22 27 Minnesota-Duluth 38 16-18- 4 18.95 85.07
23 26 22 Providence 37 14-17- 6 18.38 83.01
24 24 21 St Cloud 38 17-20- 1 18.42 82.63
25 25 28 St Lawrence 30 12-17- 1 16.67 82.12
26 23 24 Mass Lowell 40 17-19- 4 19.00 81.46
27 27 25 Michigan Tech 38 14-20- 4 16.84 77.25
28 28 26 Western Michigan 38 15-18- 5 18.42 75.01
29 29 30 Cornell 28 10-14- 4 17.14 73.72
30 30 31 Dartmouth 27 9-16- 2 14.81 70.20
31 31 33 Northern Michigan 39 12-24- 3 13.85 69.39
32 32 32 Ferris State 36 12-20- 4 15.56 68.01
33 33 29 Merrimack 34 13-16- 5 18.24 66.51
34 35 38 Union 28 8-16- 4 14.29 61.45
35 34 36 Alaska-Anchorage 36 11-25- 0 12.22 61.00
36 36 35 Illinois-Chicago 37 11-22- 4 14.05 60.23
37 37 37 Yale 28 8-17- 3 13.57 58.96
38 38 34 Boston College 35 11-22- 2 13.71 56.10
39 39 39 Notre Dame 35 9-25- 1 10.86 37.80
40 40 40 Alaska-Fairbanks 29 7-21- 1 10.34 36.89
41 41 41 Ohio State 36 6-28- 2 7.78 31.14
42 42 42 Mass Amherst 34 6-27- 1 7.65 28.69
43 43 43 Air Force 21 5-15- 1 10.48 22.90
44 44 44 Army 11 1-10- 0 3.64 20.78
HEAL RPI
Average ranking of each league: Average ranking of each league:
WCHA: 18.10 WCHA: 18.80
HEA: 21.33 HEA: 19.22
CCHA: 24.91 CCHA: 24.00
ECAC: 21.33 ECAC: 23.17
IND: 43.50 IND: 43.50
Notes on this issue:
- For comparison purposes, I've added (unofficial) RPI to this week's
ranking.
- Teams selected by HEAL match exactly those of RPI, this year.
Positions of some teams vary.
Michigan State (#7 RPI) would "squeak" into the HEAL field at #11.
But this difference is deceiving. The RPI values for positions #7-#11
are *very* close. HEAL differs mostly in that Clarkson and Wisconsin
do noticably better than the rest of this group (w/HEAL).
Bowling Green (#12 RPI) and Northeastern (#13 RPI) would not be "under
consideration" with HEAL. RPI (#18 RPI), but winner of the ECAC
tourney, looks better with HEAL at #14.
- RPI uses a magic value of 0.0100; teams with RPI values different by
less than 0.0100 go to a tie-breaker procedure. I don't know what an
appropriate value for HEAL would be. I'm of the opinion that the
tie-breaker procedure is meddling, not fine-tuning, and so should not
be used.
On "The Heal Point System" ...
The Heal Point System is used to rank secondary schools in Maine in
several sports. The Heal Point System was developed many years ago by
Durwood Heal to rank Maine secondary school basketball teams.
On the Maine secondary school calculation ...
"P.I." stands for "Preliminary Index". "P.I." is calculated for each
team by giving a team 40 points for each win and 20 points for each tie,
and then dividing by the number of scheduled games. Minimum "P.I." is
1.00.
"T.I." stands for "Tournament Index" and is used to rank the teams.
"T.I." is calculated for each team by summing the "P.I." of the
opponents for each win, one half the "P.I." for each tie, then dividing
by the number of games scheduled and then multiplying by 10.
Note: This Division I college hockey "Heal Point System" ranking uses
the number of games played instead of the number of games scheduled.
Since all games in Division I college hockey are normally played,
there is no difference between this and the traditional Heal Point
System at end of season and this method produces better preliminary
results.
Game scores for this ranking have been provided by Mike Machnik and
HOCKEY-L, The College Hockey Discussion List, an internet mailing list
hosted by The University of Maine System. Mr. Machnik's composite of
all Division I men's ice hockey games is available in the HOCKEY-L
([log in to unmask]) archives as file "9495COMP SCHEDULE".
Copyright 1995 by Wayne T. Smith [log in to unmask]
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