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John made a comment in passing in his rather lengthy (but well done, I might
add) post recently that he felt Michigan may have the best record of any team
in the 1990's. Not wanting to let a statement like that go without proof, we
at the Statistics Branch of Contest Central set out to verify or disprove that
claim.
The first challenge, of course, was whether to decide to add the 1989-90 season
or not when calculating the numbers. Since there could be some ambiguity, we
decided to do it both ways. (We almost decided to split the 1989-90 season
at the New Year, but it turned out to be too much work for our already over-
worked 3-month old secretary.)
It turns out it didn't make a difference. John was right in either way. The
following is the list of all 44 teams (who qualify for the NC$$ Tourney) and
their records in the 1990's, with and without the 1989-90 season. (Two notes:
1. The records for some teams who were independents at one time or another
must be taken with a grain of salt, since some of their wins may have come
against DivIII teams. 2. I decided to post this here instead of I-H-L since
the discussion took place here, and might have confused those on I-H-L.
Records include games played on or before 29 November 1995.)
Team With 89-90 season Without 89-90 season
W L T Pct. Rk W L T Pct. Rk
Michigan 193 56 17 .75752 1 169 44 11 .77902 1
Lake Superior 192 57 26 .74745 2 159 47 23 .74454 3
Boston University 178 60 14 .73413 3 152 43 12 .76329 2
Maine 185 63 17 .73019 4 152 52 17 .72624 4
Clarkson 140 62 21 .67489 5 119 51 18 .68085 5
Minnesota 171 79 25 .66727 6 145 63 23 .67749 6
Michigan State 161 79 26 .65414 7 125 72 23 .62045 8
Wisconsin 165 92 15 .63419 8 129 83 14 .60177 10
Harvard 105 61 20 .61828 9 92 47 19 .64241 7
New Hampshire 130 86 21 .59283 10 113 69 16 .61111 9
Northern Michigan 143 103 17 .57605 11 121 88 16 .57333 13
RPI 116 83 18 .57603 12 96 69 18 .57377 12
Providence 117 90 21 .56360 13 95 80 18 .53886 15
Colgate 111 89 16 .55093 14 80 83 13 .49148 24
Western Michigan 125 104 21 .54600 15 111 80 19 .57381 11
Alaska-Anchorage 118 100 16 .54274 16 97 89 14 .52000 17
St. Lawrence 102 93 11 .52184 17 89 78 7 .53161 16
Bowling Green 122 112 15 .52008 18 97 95 13 .50488 20
Vermont 96 90 19 .51463 19 87 70 17 .54885 14
Colorado College 119 115 17 .50797 20 101 95 15 .51422 18
Boston College 108 112 17 .49156 21 80 99 16 .45128 29
Minnesota-Duluth 116 122 19 .48833 22 96 93 18 .50725 19
Army 87 92 11 .48684 23 77 76 7 .50313 21
Mass Lowell 103 110 20 .48498 24 90 90 18 .50000 22
North Dakota 116 124 16 .48438 25 88 111 14 .44601 31
Cornell 76 85 21 .47527 26 60 75 18 .45098 30
St. Cloud 105 118 18 .47303 27 88 99 16 .46305 27
Miami 103 118 25 .46951 28 91 94 21 .49272 23
Brown 78 90 21 .46825 29 68 71 18 .49045 25
Ferris State 98 122 28 .45161 30 87 99 22 .47115 26
Mass Amherst 32 40 2 .44595 31 32 40 2 .44595 32
Alaska-Fairbanks 93 119 8 .44091 32 82 99 8 .45503 28
Princeton 71 96 14 .43094 33 59 82 13 .42532 35
Northeastern 87 121 18 .42478 34 71 102 16 .41799 37
Air Force 79 111 13 .42118 35 64 98 11 .40173 39
Denver 91 133 12 .41102 36 84 108 12 .44118 33
Merrimack 84 126 14 .40625 37 74 102 13 .42593 34
Yale 63 98 18 .40233 38 55 78 17 .42333 36
Michigan Tech 87 146 21 .38386 39 77 116 21 .40888 38
Notre Dame 75 132 11 .36927 40 59 117 11 .34492 41
Illinois-Chicago 70 148 19 .33544 41 60 121 18 .34673 40
Union 32 74 10 .31897 42 32 74 10 .31897 42
Ohio State 56 159 23 .28361 43 45 135 18 .27273 43
Dartmouth 33 122 13 .23512 44 29 104 9 .23592 44
Just so John doesn't feel too full of himself ;-), it should be noted that 29
of Maine's 52 (w/o 89-90) or 63 (w/ 89-90) losses came in one season (93-94)
and most due to forfeits. Without that, Maine's winning percentage would
most likely be well over 80%.
(For those who would object that this should be on I-H-L as opposed to here,
let me reiterate that my decision to post it here was based on the fact that
the topic was "introduced" on Hockey-L, and might have been confusing to those
who subscribe to I-H-L only.)
G. M. Finniss
Michigan State University 10-2-0, 13-4-0
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