The College Hockey Discussion List Poll for December 8, 1994:
Sorry this is late -- I was out sick yesterday. But it's good to know that
people missed it!
Teams were given 15 points for a first-place vote, 14 for a second-place
vote, and so on down to 1 point for a fifteenth-place vote. Total first-
place votes are in parentheses.
Maine takes the top spot again, but Colorado College has narrowed the gap
considerably from last week. There finally seems to be a consensus as to
who the top teams are; there were only seven "other teams receiving votes"
this week, and after Western Michigan (only eight points behind #15
Wisconsin), there was a huge dropoff.
I added a new column to the composite poll this week, called "Most
Frequent." This column indicates the spot at which the largest number of
voters placed that particular team (the mode, or most frequent value, for
those of you who are statistically minded). The number in parentheses
indicates the number of voters who ranked that team in that spot. As an
example, consider Bowling Green, for which the Most Frequent column says
"7 (13)". This means that 13 of the 34 voters ranked Bowling Green #7 this
week, and that was a higher number than ranked the Falcons at any other
spot. (Note that the range for Bowling Green was 4-11.)
I don't know how interesting the Most Frequent column will be, but I figured
I'd give it a shot. Note that sometimes, there is a tie for Most Frequent
(Brown, Denver, RPI, and Clarkson this week); in that instance, all the
"most frequents" are listed.
Composite poll (34 responses):
Last Most
Record Pts. Week Range Frequent
1. Maine (25) 11-0-4 488 1 1-10 1 (25)
2. Colorado College (7) 12-2 476 2 1-5 2 (22)
3. Minnesota (2) 9-2-1 437 3 1-6 3 (17)
4. Michigan 10-4 390 5 2-8 4 (12)
5. Michigan State 11-3-1 379 6 3-7 5 (15)
6. Boston University 8-3-3 350 4 2-10 6 (15)
7. Bowling Green 10-4 296 7 4-11 7 (13)
8. New Hampshire 9-3-2 219 10 7-15 8 (9)
9. Northeastern 8-4-2 190 8 7-15 8 (9)
10. Vermont 7-5 164 11 3-14 11 (8)
11. Brown 6-2 136 9 8-15 9,13 (6)
12. Denver 9-5 123 -- 7-15 11,12 (6)
13. RPI 7-3 119 14 7-15 12,15 (7)
14. Clarkson 6-3-2 101 15 8-15 13,15 (6)
15. Wisconsin 8-6-1 88 12 7-15 14 (7)
Others receiving votes: Western Michigan 80, Michigan Tech 9, Harvard
7, Mass Lowell 4, Miami 4, Ferris State 3, Colgate 2
Teams named on all responses: Maine, Colorado College, Minnesota,
Michigan, Michigan State, Boston University, Bowling Green
Dropped out of Top 15: Michigan Tech (#13 last week)
Despite a significantly higher number of Western voters this week (the first
time that's happened in a while), the East and West polls look pretty
similar:
Eastern responses: Western responses:
1. Maine (11) 199 1. Maine (14) 289
2. Colorado College (3) 196 2. Colorado College (4) 280
3. Minnesota 178 3. Minnesota (2) 259
4. Michigan State 158 4. Michigan 233
5. Michigan 157 5. Michigan State 221
6. Boston University 151 6. Boston University 199
7. Bowling Green 121 7. Bowling Green 175
8. New Hampshire 98 8. Northeastern 131
9. RPI 64 9. New Hampshire 121
10. Brown 63 10. Vermont 102
11. Vermont 62 11. Brown 73
12. Northeastern 59 12. Denver 71
13. Denver 52 13. Clarkson 65
14. Clarkson 36 14. RPI 55
Western Michigan 36 15. Wisconsin 52
Wisconsin 36
Here is a composite of the HOCKEY-L poll and the WMEB and Troy Record
rankings:
Troy
HOCKEY-L WMEB Record
Team Record Rank Rank Rank
Maine 11-0-4 1 3 2
Colorado College 12-2 2 1 1
Minnesota 9-2-1 3 2 3
Michigan 10-4 4 5 4
Michigan State 11-3-1 5 6 6
Boston University 8-3-3 6 4 5
Bowling Green 10-4 7 7 7
New Hampshire 9-3-2 8 (12) (13)
Northeastern 8-4-2 9 8 8
Vermont 7-5 10 10 (14)
Brown 6-2 11 (13) 10
Denver 9-5 12 (11) (11)
RPI 7-3 13 9
Clarkson 6-3-2 14 9 (12)
Wisconsin 8-6-1 15 (13) (14)
Ken Butler's KRACH ratings make their first appearance in the HOCKEY-L
poll's ratings composite, and KRACH is used along with CHODR to generate the
Tad-rate (see below):
HOCKEY-L CHODR KRACH
Team Record Rank Rank Rank
Maine 11-0-4 1 7 1
Colorado College 12-2 2 1 2
Minnesota 9-2-1 3 3 3
Michigan 10-4 4 2 6
Michigan State 11-3-1 5 6 5
Boston University 8-3-3 6 4 4
Bowling Green 10-4 7 9 10
New Hampshire 9-3-2 8 10 7
Northeastern 8-4-2 9 11 11
Vermont 7-5 10 5 14
Brown 6-2 11 19 9
Denver 9-5 12 8 8
RPI 7-3 13 17 12
Clarkson 6-3-2 14 12 15
Wisconsin 8-6-1 15 13 13
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St. Cloud 6-8 14 23
Western Michigan 10-5-1 15 18
Along with the Tadpoll, this week I'm reviving Tad-rate, which does exactly
the same thing as Tadpoll, except it uses the various ratings (CHODR and
KRACH) as voters, assigning 15 points for each #1 ranking, 14 points for
each #2, etc. Note that the HOCKEY-L poll does NOT figure in Tad-rate.
Tadpoll: Tad-rate:
1. Colorado College (2) 44 1. Colorado College (1) 29
2. Maine (1) 42 2. Minnesota 26
3. Minnesota 40 3. Maine (1) 24
4. Michigan 35 Boston University 24
5. Boston University 33 Michigan 24
6. Michigan State 31 6. Michigan State 21
7. Bowling Green 27 7. Denver 16
8. Northeastern 23 8. New Hampshire 15
9. New Hampshire 15 9. Bowling Green 13
10. Denver 14 Vermont 13
11. Brown 13.5 11. Northeastern 10
12. Clarkson 13 12. Brown 7
Vermont 13 13. Wisconsin 6
14. RPI 10 14. Clarkson 5
15. Wisconsin 4.5 15. RPI 4
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