A favorite radio announcer of mine loves to talk about "good losses".
;-)  Guess this should fuel his fire, as a road loss is only six tenths
of a loss!   Holy Cow, 0.6!  (1.4 wins for a road win ... opposite at home)

As it's too cold here ("below the donut") tonight to take the dogs for
their nightly walk, I decided to see how this  ranking would look for
D-I men's college hockey now as we're somewhat past mid season.  The
results may be found below, following Charlie's post. I call it
RPIHOME.  Column two shows the change in ranking from this week's RPI. A
negative value means that a team is ranked higher in RPIHOME than RPI.
If it's formatted poorly in your mail program, perhaps this URL will
look better:

    http://maine.edu/heal/rpihome.20050115

cheers, wayne

P.S. No one has said I've interpreted NCAA basketball's change
appropriately!  In addition, I have no idea how the NCAA went from about
68% wins by home teams over the past several years (a value I've seen in
a couple of places) to the 0.6 and 1.4 win/loss values.  And, yes, I
know 1.4/(0.6+1.4)*100%==70%.

Charlie Shub wrote, in part:

>The January 3 NCAA news reports on changes to how RPI will be used as
>a tool for the 2005 basketball championships.
>
>Changes were based on a 4 year study that shows home teams win about
>2/3 of all games
>
>They will still use the 25, 50, and 25 percentages, but now
>road victories weigh 1.4 and road losses weigh 0.6
>home losses weigh 1.4 and home victories weigh 0.6
>
>The article also stated that the new weightings replace the added
>bonuses or penalties for road performance and schedule strength
>

RPIHOME Rankings for Men's Division I College Hockey, through
2005-01-15.
Compiled by Wayne T.
Smith


This report includes results from 622 Division I
games.



     RPI

Rank Diff School                    Record        win%     opp% oppopp%  rpihome

 1     0  Colorado College     17.2- 2.6- 1.4    74.58    51.87   49.87   0.5705

 2     0  Minnesota            16.8- 5.8- 0.0    67.20    54.69   49.78   0.5659

 3    -1  Boston College       14.8- 1.8- 2.6    80.50    46.10   49.15   0.5546

 4     1  Boston University    11.8- 9.0- 0.0    53.64    56.37   47.73   0.5353

 5    -3  Colgate              16.2- 5.0- 0.0    73.64    45.06   47.18   0.5273

 6     0  Denver               12.4- 5.2- 1.4    62.38    48.12   49.83   0.5211

 7     2  Michigan             16.0- 3.8- 0.6    67.92    45.16   48.41   0.5166

 8    -2  Mass.-Lowell         11.8- 5.4- 2.0    64.00    46.70   47.91   0.5133

 9    -4  North Dakota         13.2- 9.2- 2.8    56.15    49.53   48.95   0.5104

10    -2  Cornell               9.4- 2.8- 2.8    63.53    46.77   46.69   0.5094

11     4  Harvard               7.6- 4.2- 2.4    51.76    51.64   45.81   0.5021

12     3  Wisconsin            14.2- 6.0- 0.6    60.42    46.09   48.02   0.5015

13     2  New Hampshire        12.2- 3.8- 2.8    61.82    44.16   47.93   0.4952

14     0  Michigan State       11.2- 9.8- 0.6    47.92    51.64   45.55   0.4919

15    -3  Northeastern          8.0-11.0- 2.6    42.27    53.68   46.44   0.4902

16     1  Maine                10.4- 8.4- 4.4    52.50    47.71   47.55   0.4887

17    -2  Vermont              12.2- 7.4- 3.4    60.43    43.58   47.22   0.4870

18     2  Ohio State           13.8- 4.8- 3.4    64.58    41.44   46.20   0.4842

19    -1  St. Lawrence         12.0- 7.8- 1.0    56.82    44.30   46.93   0.4809

20   -10  Union                10.0-12.4- 1.0    45.65    50.70   44.84   0.4797

21    -1  Bowling Green        10.0- 7.8- 3.4    58.50    42.95   47.42   0.4796

22     1  Dartmouth             7.6- 8.2- 1.2    48.24    49.65   44.17   0.4793

23   -10  Alabama-Huntsville    8.6- 4.6- 4.8    61.11    41.44   46.56   0.4764

24   -13  Wayne State          11.4- 8.6- 2.8    58.18    43.73   44.92   0.4764

25   -13  Air Force            11.4- 9.0- 2.4    57.27    45.09   43.04   0.4763

26    -1  Brown                 8.0- 6.0- 1.2    53.75    45.34   44.82   0.4731

27    10  Minnesota State       6.4-11.8- 2.2    31.25    55.01   47.26   0.4713

28   -16  Holy Cross           12.6- 5.2- 3.2    67.62    38.50   43.24   0.4696

29     5  Ferris State          9.0-12.0- 3.4    44.58    47.98   45.11   0.4641

30    -6  Niagara               8.8-11.8- 0.0    41.90    49.65   43.39   0.4615

31     3  Bemidji State        11.0- 6.6- 0.0    55.00    41.16   47.07   0.4610

32    -2  St. Cloud State       9.0-13.0- 2.0    41.67    46.35   46.81   0.4530

33     7  Northern Michigan     8.4- 4.2- 5.8    51.36    39.26   47.61   0.4437

34     3  Lake Superior         5.8-10.8- 1.8    30.45    51.39   43.83   0.4427

35     0  Alaska-Anchorage      6.6-10.6- 2.0    38.00    45.63   47.51   0.4419

36    13  Nebraska-Omaha        8.2- 7.0- 2.0    41.82    44.66   45.50   0.4416

37    12  Western Michigan      7.6- 9.8- 0.6    35.91    47.19   45.57   0.4397

38     6  Miami                 5.6-10.8- 4.4    32.50    47.94   46.51   0.4372

39    -3  Minnesota-Duluth      8.6-11.4- 3.2    42.50    41.37   47.45   0.4317

40     1  Merrimack             6.8-16.4- 2.4    30.77    47.35   47.05   0.4313

41    -8  Mercyhurst            7.4- 7.6- 4.8    46.67    41.09   43.13   0.4299

42    13  Massachusetts         6.4-10.0- 2.0    30.83    46.83   46.40   0.4272

43    -7  Canisius             10.2-10.2- 2.6    50.00    38.60   43.57   0.4269

44     3  Alaska-Fairbanks      6.0- 8.2- 0.6    35.00    44.78   44.79   0.4234

45     5  Providence            4.4-11.0- 2.6    25.91    47.97   46.52   0.4209

46    -1  Rensselaer            8.6-16.0- 2.4    39.20    41.05   46.27   0.4189

47     4  Notre Dame            4.6-12.6- 4.6    30.00    45.43   44.98   0.4146

48     0  Sacred Heart          5.8- 8.2- 0.6    32.11    45.63   41.46   0.4121

49     3  Clarkson              5.6-12.0- 1.2    28.18    44.88   45.94   0.4097

50     5  Michigan Tech         2.0-16.6- 0.6    11.50    52.30   46.10   0.4055

51    -2  Quinnipiac            6.6- 7.6- 3.4    41.50    38.74   42.96   0.4049

52    -2  Robert Morris         4.4-11.8- 2.6    28.50    44.26   41.79   0.3970

53     2  Princeton             4.6-10.4- 0.6    27.22    40.06   46.27   0.3840

54     2  Yale                  1.2-14.2- 1.4    10.56    48.35   45.12   0.3809

55     0  Army                  2.6-10.4- 2.0    21.18    44.98   41.15   0.3807

56     0  Connecticut           5.4-13.8- 2.4    30.00    38.75   43.36   0.3771

57     0  Bentley               4.0- 9.0- 3.6    30.53    36.74   42.12   0.3653

58     0  American Int'l        2.0-13.0- 1.4    16.88    43.86   41.51   0.3652





(*) Special
note:


   RPIHOME is a ranking that attempts to mimic a variation of RPI
being
   considered by the NCAA.  It takes into account a Division I wide
home
   ice advantage by multiplying home win values by 0.6 and road
win
   values by 1.4, thus giving significantly more value to road
wins.




Comments on HEAL, as well as RPI, RPI-HOME and RHEAL rankings, may
be
found on the web
at



http://Maine.edu/HEAL/


Game scores for this ranking have been provided by US College
Hockey
Online, sometimes supplemented by other sources.  USCHO's composite
of
all Division I men's ice hockey games is available
at



http://uscho.com/


in the section marked Men's Division I
schedules.


RPI-HOME is available for republication without restriction.
RPI-HOME
may be reformatted or used in part without restriction.  Reference
to
the HEAL web site or the author (Wayne T. Smith;  [log in to unmask])
is
appreciated.