Below are listed 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 differs from the Rating Percentage Index primarily in the
relationship between the [Win%] and the [Strength of Schedule].   This
relationship is multiplicative in YAM2 in contrast to the  RPI for
which it is additive.
 
        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 (Northeastern
this week).   Also,  as in the RPI,  the head to head games are subtracted
from the records before calculating the Opp% in order to prevent "inverse"
effects on the ranking metric.
 
        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 2/20/95
 
 YAM2  RPI                         W-L%     Norm.      YAM2
 Rank  Rank                                Sched.    Metric
 
  1     1   Michigan              0.810     0.962     0.780
  2     3   Maine                 0.849     0.910     0.772
  3     2   Boston_University     0.758     0.965     0.732
  4     4   New_Hampshire         0.726     0.933     0.677
  5     6   Colorado_College      0.735     0.914     0.672
  6     5   Minnesota             0.609     0.991     0.604
  7     9   Clarkson              0.667     0.899     0.599
  8     10  Denver                0.641     0.913     0.585
  9     7   Michigan_State        0.617     0.930     0.574
  10    12  Bowling_Green         0.633     0.893     0.565
  11    13  Brown                 0.609     0.900     0.548
  12    11  Wisconsin             0.563     0.944     0.531
  13    14  Lake_Superior         0.583     0.901     0.526
  14    15  Vermont               0.571     0.895     0.511
  15    8   Northeastern          0.500     1.000     0.500
  16    17  Princeton             0.544     0.907     0.493
  17    22  RPI                   0.556     0.870     0.483
  18    21  Miami                 0.547     0.882     0.482
  19    23  Colgate               0.537     0.877     0.471
  20    20  Harvard               0.521     0.900     0.469
  21    16  Michigan_Tech         0.500     0.936     0.468
  22    27  Merrimack             0.517     0.875     0.452
  23    28  Mass_Lowell           0.500     0.881     0.441
  24    18  St_Cloud              0.453     0.955     0.433
  25    19  North_Dakota          0.453     0.954     0.432
  26    25  Western_Michigan      0.469     0.916     0.429
 27T    26  Minnesota-Duluth      0.438     0.924     0.404
 27T    32  Ferris_State          0.467     0.865     0.404
  29    24  St_Lawrence           0.420     0.947     0.398
  30    30  Providence            0.403     0.913     0.368
  31    29  Northern_Michigan     0.391     0.938     0.366
  32    35  Cornell               0.405     0.891     0.361
  33    36  Illinois-Chicago      0.403     0.886     0.357
  34    34  Yale                  0.396     0.897     0.355
  35    33  Alaska-Anchorage      0.367     0.921     0.338
  36    31  Boston_College        0.355     0.937     0.332
  37    37  Dartmouth             0.348     0.906     0.315
  38    38  Union                 0.370     0.847     0.313
  39    39  Alaska-Fairbanks      0.268     0.898     0.240
  40    40  Notre_Dame            0.259     0.873     0.226
  41    43  Air_Force             0.262     0.799     0.209
  42    42  Ohio_State            0.207     0.863     0.178
  43    41  Mass_Amherst          0.190     0.886     0.168
  44    44  Army                  0.091     0.732     0.067
 
        -- Dick Tuthill