The College Hockey Computer Rating
compiled by Keith Instone
 
Includes games on 1/29/91. Last week's ranking includes games on 1/20/91.
 
     Last                      Division I          Schedule Schedule
Rank Week Team                   Record    Rating  Strength   Rank
  1    1  Lake Superior         23  3  4   100.00    60.19     14
  2    4  Michigan              22  5  3    92.78    60.46     12
  3    3  Northern Michigan     22  5  3    92.57    57.61     19
  4    6  Minnesota             22  4  3    90.54    55.13     22
  5    2  Boston College        21  7  0    89.69    61.36     10
  6    5  Maine                 22  6  2    89.67    59.26     16
  7    7  Providence            15  5  2    81.39    54.35     23
  8    8  Boston University     17  8  2    80.62    60.05     15
  9    9  Wisconsin             19  8  2    79.37    58.85     17
 10   10  Clarkson              15  5  1    77.16    50.51     28
 11   12  North Dakota          17 11  2    72.13    60.38     13
 12   11  Ferris State          18  7  5    71.78    52.69     26
 13   15  New Hampshire         17  8  2    67.38    48.93     29
 14   14  Cornell               11  5  2    65.20    44.88     34
 15   13  Michigan State        11 13  5    63.12    65.40      4
 16   19  Western Michigan      15 12  3    61.14    56.58     21
 17   17  St Lawrence           12  9  1    59.31    52.70     25
 18   16  RPI                   10  9  0    57.01    53.07     24
 19   25  Minnesota-Duluth      10 15  5    54.29    64.28      7
 20   20  St Cloud              10 15  3    54.03    64.89      6
 21   27  Merrimack             13  9  1    53.12    44.31     37
 22   18  Bowling Green         11 17  2    53.09    66.31      2
 23   22  Colgate               10  8  3    51.16    43.39     38
 24   24  Michigan Tech          9 18  3    50.28    66.15      3
 25   23  Harvard                8  8  0    50.12    44.88     33
 26   26  Alaska-Anchorage       9 10  3    49.99    51.79     27
 27   28  Vermont               10 10  1    46.02    47.49     32
 28   32  Lowell                 9 17  1    43.17    60.47     11
 29   30  Colorado College       9 19  1    42.34    61.48      9
 30   21  Yale                   8  8  1    41.69    42.73     39
 31   31  Illinois-Chicago       9 18  1    41.42    58.26     18
 32   29  Ohio State             8 17  3    41.23    62.32      8
 33   34  Alaska-Fairbanks       9  9  0    37.83    39.05     41
 34   35  Brown                  6  9  3    35.28    47.76     31
 35   33  Denver                 5 23  2    33.72    69.71      1
 36   36  Princeton              6 11  1    29.46    44.64     35
 37   37  Miami                  4 22  3    26.86    65.00      5
 38   38  Northeastern           4 20  2    23.35    57.59     20
 39   39  Notre Dame             5  9  1    23.09    38.07     42
 40   41  Kent State             5 13  1    12.18    33.98     44
 41   42  Alabama-Huntsville     4 15  2     9.16    36.86     43
 42   40  Army                   2 12  3     7.70    40.10     40
 43   44  Dartmouth              1 17  2     0.44    48.69     30
 44   43  Air Force              1 15  2     0.00    44.31     36
 
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 540 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.