I tried to send this out yesterday,  but got blown off line by
noise that my modem didn't like.   Sorry about that if anyone received
gibberish.   Back at the office today,  so I can re-post without fear.
 
        As promised,  here are the YAM2 rankings as of last weekend.   The
YAM2 is an intuitively based simple formula which seeks to measure
accomplishment over the course of the season.   It will not identify the
teams which are currently hot,  but views the season as a whole.
 
        YAM2 = (Win%) x (Strength of Sched.)
 
        Strength of schedule is quantified the same way as in RPI:  namely
2 parts Opp% added to 1 part Opp-Opp%.   In this implementation the strength
of schedule is normalized to the value of the stongest schedule (Minnesota
this week).
 
        YAM2 will not raise a ranking if a team goes to Maine and loses two
games.  It also gives equal weight to win% and strength of schedule.
 
Ranking as of 1/29/95:
 
YAM2  RPI                               Norm.     YAM2
Rank  Rank                     W-L %    Sched.   Metric
 
 1    2    Michigan            0.8043   0.9378   0.7543
 2    3    Maine               0.8276   0.9081   0.7515
 3    1    Boston_University   0.7400   0.9937   0.7353
 4    4    Colorado_College    0.7500   0.9173   0.6880
 5    5    New_Hampshire       0.7000   0.9338   0.6536
 6    7    Michigan_State      0.7083   0.9003   0.6377
 7    9    Clarkson            0.6905   0.8973   0.6196
 8    8    Bowling_Green       0.6875   0.8995   0.6184
 9   14    Brown               0.6563   0.8862   0.5816
10   10    Denver              0.6346   0.9100   0.5775
11    6    Minnesota           0.5769   1.0000   0.5769
12   11    Harvard             0.6176   0.9190   0.5676
13   16    RPI                 0.6190   0.8546   0.5290
14   12    Wisconsin           0.5370   0.9638   0.5176
15   13    Northeastern        0.5200   0.9736   0.5063
16   15    Michigan_Tech       0.5192   0.9469   0.4916
17   19    Vermont             0.5455   0.8805   0.4803
18   17    Princeton           0.5294   0.8998   0.4763
19   24    Colgate             0.5227   0.8699   0.4547
20   21    Western_Michigan    0.5000   0.9019   0.4510
21   18    Minnesota-Duluth    0.4815   0.9248   0.4453
22   20    North_Dakota        0.4808   0.9142   0.4395
23   23    Lake_Superior       0.4792   0.9085   0.4354
24   28    Merrimack           0.5000   0.8671   0.4335
25   29    Mass_Lowell         0.5000   0.8617   0.4309
26   25    Miami               0.4808   0.8908   0.4283
27   26    Northern_Michigan   0.4423   0.9060   0.4007
28   30    Yale                0.4444   0.8836   0.3927
29   31    Ferris_State        0.4423   0.8700   0.3848
30   22    St_Cloud            0.3846   0.9709   0.3734
31   34    Illinois-Chicago    0.4423   0.8415   0.3722
32   36    Providence          0.4038   0.8593   0.3470
33   32    Alaska-Anchorage    0.3750   0.9076   0.3404
34   27    St_Lawrence         0.3421   0.9656   0.3303
35   33    Boston_College      0.3600   0.9144   0.3292
36   35    Cornell             0.3667   0.8853   0.3246
37   38    Union               0.3824   0.8457   0.3234
38   37    Dartmouth           0.2941   0.9096   0.2675
39   39    Alaska-Fairbanks    0.2708   0.8832   0.2392
40   42    Mass_Amherst        0.2391   0.8211   0.1963
41   40    Notre_Dame          0.2200   0.8836   0.1944
42   41    Ohio_State          0.2174   0.8846   0.1923
43   43    Air_Force           0.1842   0.8458   0.1558
44   44    Army                0.1111   0.7784   0.0865
 
        Some observations.   BU looks to be in its proper place (please,
no flames),  Minnesota drops substantially,  Brown does the opposite.
SLU no longer gets credit for going to Maine:-):-)
 
        Does this ranking have the right "feel"?   In actual fact,  that is
all we really have to go on.
 
        -- Dick Tuthill