Heal Point System Rank for Men's Division I College Hockey, through 03/12/1995.
Compiled by Wayne T. Smith
 
This report includes results from 746 Division I games.
Only games between teams with 20 or more Division I games scheduled are counted,
as 20 Division I games are required for eligibility to the NCAA tournament,
and only games between eligible teams are used in the NCAA selection process.
 
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Rank Week School                   Record        P.I.       T.I.
 1     1  Michigan                28- 6- 1      32.57     155.88
 2     2  Maine                   28- 4- 6      32.63     150.66
 3     3  Boston University       26- 6- 3      31.43     147.21
 4     6  Minnesota               21-12- 5      24.74     129.06
 5     7  Clarkson                21- 8- 4      27.88     127.84
 6     5  Colorado College        29-10- 1      29.50     127.74
 7     4  New Hampshire           22- 9- 4      27.43     127.20
 8     8  Denver                  24-12- 2      26.32     122.25
 9     9  Wisconsin               21-14- 4      23.59     115.46
10    11  Michigan State          23-10- 3      27.22     111.99
11    10  Vermont                 19-14- 2      22.86     111.84
12    13  Princeton               16-12- 3      22.58     107.11
13    12  Bowling Green           24-10- 2      27.78     105.75
14    15  Lake Superior           19-11- 6      24.44     102.75
15    16  North Dakota            18-17- 3      20.53     102.36
16    19  Colgate                 19-14- 1      22.94     100.07
17    14  Brown                   15-12- 3      22.00      97.78
18    20  RPI                     16-13- 4      21.82      96.02
19    17  Northeastern            16-14- 5      21.14      94.53
20    18  Harvard                 14-14- 2      20.00      92.26
21    23  Miami                   18-14- 6      22.11      89.65
22    21  Minnesota-Duluth        16-18- 4      18.95      85.66
23    26  Mass Lowell             17-17- 4      20.00      85.56
24    22  St Cloud                17-20- 1      18.42      82.69
25    24  St Lawrence             12-17- 1      16.67      82.58
26    29  Providence              13-16- 6      18.29      79.05
27    25  Michigan Tech           14-20- 4      16.84      77.87
28    27  Western Michigan        15-18- 5      18.42      75.68
29    28  Cornell                 10-14- 4      17.14      73.77
30    31  Dartmouth                9-16- 2      14.81      70.34
31    32  Northern Michigan       12-24- 3      13.85      68.87
32    30  Ferris State            12-20- 4      15.56      68.76
33    33  Merrimack               13-16- 5      18.24      66.57
34    34  Alaska-Anchorage        11-25- 0      12.22      61.53
35    36  Union                    8-16- 4      14.29      61.25
36    35  Illinois-Chicago        11-22- 4      14.05      60.54
37    37  Yale                     8-17- 3      13.57      59.02
38    38  Boston College          11-22- 2      13.71      56.71
39    39  Notre Dame               9-25- 1      10.86      38.14
40    40  Alaska-Fairbanks         7-21- 1      10.34      37.39
41    41  Ohio State               6-28- 2       7.78      31.18
42    42  Mass Amherst             6-27- 1       7.65      28.85
43    43  Air Force                5-15- 1      10.48      23.38
44    44  Army                     1-10- 0       3.64      19.83
 
 
Average ranking of each league:
 
         HEAL                             RPI
 
   WCHA:      18.00                WCHA:      18.30
    HEA:      21.44                 HEA:      19.44
   CCHA:      25.00                CCHA:      24.09
   ECAC:      21.25                ECAC:      23.33
    IND:      43.50                 IND:      43.50
 
 
Notes for this issue --
 
- RPI and HEAL agree on the first three teams, and though each rating
  scheme has them in the same order for the past 3 weeks, the order is
  different for each scheme.
 
- HEAL teams in positions #4-#7 are essentially tied.
 
- I've run a few scenarios and it appears that Clarkson cannot catch
  Maine for the 2nd bye with either HEAL or RPI.  Of course, the NCAA
  Ice Hockey Tournament Selection Committee, in their infinite
  wisdom/meddling may change the rules again this year.
 
- All HEAL top-12 teams, with the exceptions of New Hampshire and
  Colgate, remain in the hunt for their league tournament championships.
 
  Of the RPI top-12, New Hampshire and Northeastern have ended their
  conference playoff hopes.
 
- NCAA tournament selections and final HEAL rankings next week.
 
 
On "The Heal Point System" ...
 
The Heal Point System is used to rank secondary schools in Maine in
several sports.  The Heal Point System was developed many years ago by
Durwood Heal to rank Maine secondary school basketball teams.
 
On the Maine secondary school calculation ...
 
"P.I." stands for "Preliminary Index".  "P.I." is calculated for each
team by giving a team 40 points for each win and 20 points for each tie,
and then dividing by the number of scheduled games.  Minimum "P.I." is
1.00.
 
"T.I." stands for "Tournament Index" and is used to rank the teams.
"T.I." is calculated for each team by summing the "P.I." of the
opponents for each win, one half the "P.I." for each tie, then dividing
by the number of games scheduled and then multiplying by 10.
 
Note: This Division I college hockey "Heal Point System" ranking uses
   the number of games played instead of the number of games scheduled.
   Since all games in Division I college hockey are normally played,
   there is no difference between this and the traditional Heal Point
   System at end of season and this method produces better preliminary
   results.
 
Game scores for this ranking have been provided by Mike Machnik and
HOCKEY-L, The College Hockey Discussion List, an internet mailing list
hosted by The University of Maine System.  Mr. Machnik's composite of
all Division I men's ice hockey games is available in the HOCKEY-L
([log in to unmask]) archives as file "9495COMP SCHEDULE".
 
Copyright 1995 by Wayne T. Smith                   [log in to unmask]