The YAM2 Ranking is based on a simple mathematical formula which is
designed to measure team accomplishment over the course of the season.  It
uses Win% and a strength of schedule (SOS) metric,  in similar fashion to
the Rating Percentage Index (RPI).   However,  YAM2 differs from the RPI in
one significant aspect.  In order to prevent inverse effects,  the ranking
metric is a product of Win% and the SOS metric,  whereas in the RPI metric
it is a sum.  Thus,  a loss by a team will almost always produce a decrease
in the YAM2 metric,  and a win will almost always produce an increase in the
YAM2 metric.  The magnitude of these effects will be influenced by the
strength of the opponent.  (It is also worth noting that the actual change
in ranking *placement* for any given team,  as opposed to the ranking
*metric*,  will be strongly influenced by the simultaneous changes in
records for "neighboring" teams in the ranking table.)
 
     YAM2 = Win% * SOS
 
     The SOS metric used in YAM2 is the same as that used in the original
RPI weighting factors:  namely 2 parts Opp% added to 1 part Opp-Opp%.  In
this implementation the SOS metric is normalized to the toughest schedule
for convenience.
 
     The table below is best viewed using a constant pitch font.
 
 
 
 YAM2  RPI                               Norm.    YAM2
 Rank  Rank                       Win%  Sched.  Metric
 
  1     2   Colorado College     0.865   0.911   0.788
  2     1   Boston University    0.809   0.969   0.783
  3     3   Lake Superior        0.794   0.935   0.742
  4     4   Michigan             0.771   0.953   0.735
  5     5   Minnesota            0.737   0.968   0.713
  6     7   Western Michigan     0.736   0.958   0.705
  7     6   Maine                0.714   0.983   0.702
  8     8   Michigan State       0.716   0.969   0.694
  9     9   Vermont              0.774   0.893   0.692
  10    10  Clarkson             0.734   0.914   0.671
  11    11  Mass-Lowell          0.735   0.908   0.667
  12    13  Saint Lawrence       0.641   0.925   0.593
  13    12  Bowling Green        0.625   0.947   0.592
  14    15  Cornell              0.655   0.875   0.573
  15    14  Denver               0.603   0.945   0.569
  16    16  Colgate              0.600   0.912   0.547
  17    18  Providence           0.544   0.958   0.522
  18    17  Boston College       0.515   0.987   0.508
  19    21  Minnesota-Duluth     0.540   0.897   0.484
  20    19  Wisconsin            0.487   0.960   0.467
  21    22  North Dakota         0.513   0.908   0.466
  22    23  Michigan Tech        0.474   0.935   0.443
  23    20  New Hampshire        0.438   0.990   0.433
  24    24  Saint Cloud          0.378   1.000   0.378
  25    26  Mass-Amherst         0.394   0.922   0.363
  26    32  Brown                0.414   0.840   0.348
  27    27  Northeastern         0.368   0.943   0.347
 28T    28  Ferris State         0.368   0.931   0.342
 28T    25  Miami                0.353   0.970   0.342
  30    29  Ohio State           0.350   0.943   0.330
  31    33  Harvard              0.362   0.874   0.316
  32    30  Alaska-Anchorage     0.319   0.955   0.305
  33    31  Notre Dame           0.314   0.940   0.296
  34    34  Merrimack            0.328   0.889   0.292
  35    42  Army                 0.393   0.717   0.282
  36    40  RPI                  0.328   0.837   0.275
  37    36  Illinois-Chicago     0.292   0.889   0.259
  38    38  Dartmouth            0.293   0.872   0.256
  39    37  Princeton            0.286   0.878   0.251
  40    35  Alaska-Fairbanks     0.266   0.929   0.247
  41    41  Union                0.276   0.860   0.237
  42    43  Yale                 0.224   0.820   0.184
  43    39  Northern Michigan    0.184   0.971   0.179
  44    44  Air Force            0.087   0.783   0.068
 
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