The College Hockey Computer Rating
compiled by Keith Instone
 
Includes games on 1/27/91. Last week's ranking includes games on 1/20/91.
 
     Last                      Division I          Schedule Schedule
Rank Week Team                   Record    Rating  Strength   Rank
  1    1  Lake Superior         23  3  4   100.00    59.76     15
  2    4  Michigan              22  5  3    92.66    60.00     13
  3    3  Northern Michigan     22  5  3    92.31    56.97     19
  4    6  Minnesota             22  4  3    90.26    54.47     22
  5    5  Maine                 22  6  2    89.28    58.54     16
  6    2  Boston College        20  7  0    88.72    61.00     12
  7    7  Providence            15  5  2    81.01    53.67     24
  8    8  Boston University     16  8  2    80.97    61.09     10
  9    9  Wisconsin             19  8  2    79.01    58.27     17
 10   10  Clarkson              15  5  1    78.28    51.34     27
 11   12  North Dakota          17 11  2    71.64    59.76     14
 12   11  Ferris State          18  7  5    71.54    52.23     26
 13   14  Cornell               11  4  2    68.43    43.54     38
 14   15  New Hampshire         17  8  2    67.71    49.06     31
 15   13  Michigan State        11 13  5    62.59    64.90      4
 16   19  Western Michigan      15 12  3    60.61    56.01     21
 17   17  St Lawrence           12  9  1    60.19    53.51     25
 18   16  RPI                   10  9  0    58.06    54.08     23
 19   25  Minnesota-Duluth      10 15  5    53.64    63.74      7
 20   20  St Cloud              10 15  3    53.34    64.31      6
 21   21  Yale                   9  6  1    53.05    43.30     39
 22   22  Colgate               10  8  3    52.77    44.92     35
 23   18  Bowling Green         11 17  2    52.57    65.94      2
 24   27  Merrimack             13  9  1    52.48    43.57     37
 25   23  Harvard                8  8  0    51.82    46.53     33
 26   24  Michigan Tech          9 18  3    49.60    65.64      3
 27   26  Alaska-Anchorage       9 10  3    48.92    50.95     28
 28   28  Vermont               10 10  1    47.01    48.49     32
 29   30  Colorado College       8 19  1    41.44    63.39      8
 30   31  Illinois-Chicago       9 18  1    40.83    57.85     18
 31   29  Ohio State             8 17  3    40.54    61.85      9
 32   32  Lowell                 8 17  1    40.34    61.07     11
 33   34  Alaska-Fairbanks       9  9  0    37.26    38.25     41
 34   33  Denver                 5 23  2    32.87    69.25      1
 35   35  Brown                  5 10  3    31.21    49.77     30
 36   36  Princeton              6 11  1    30.60    45.95     34
 37   37  Miami                  4 22  3    26.02    64.57      5
 38   39  Notre Dame             5  9  1    22.50    37.65     42
 39   38  Northeastern           4 19  2    22.34    56.55     20
 40   41  Kent State             5 13  1    11.16    33.19     44
 41   40  Army                   2 12  3     8.82    41.58     40
 42   42  Alabama-Huntsville     4 15  2     8.19    36.19     43
 43   44  Dartmouth              1 17  2     1.06    49.84     29
 44   43  Air Force              1 14  2     0.00    44.28     36
 
The College Hockey Computer Rating uses a connected schedule graph and a
least squares optimization to rate the 44 Division I college hockey teams.
This method considers a team's opponents, and their opponents, etc., until
all 536 Division I games are included.
 
In addition to rating the teams, a strength of schedule is calculated for
each team. The schedule strength can be computed by averaging the ratings
of a team's opponents for each game.
 
The ratings are normalized so that the #1 team receives a 100.00 and #44
gets a 0.00. Thus, the ratings are purely relative numbers, rating a team
based on the rest of college hockey and not on any absolute basis.
 
For every game, the teams are evaluated based on: the outcome (win,
lose, tie); the margin of victory; the site of the game (home, away, neutral
ice); and overtime or regulation time.
 
Only games against other Division I teams are considered.