From USCHO http://www.uscollegehockey.com
 
1998-1999 Pairwise Rankings (PWR)
 
Rk Team                GP  W- L- T  Win%  Rk     RPI  Rk  PWR
 1 North Dakota        22 19- 2- 1 0.8864  1 | 0.6655  1 | 26
 2 Maine               22 16- 2- 4 0.8182  3 | 0.6117  3 | 25
 3 Quinnipiac          13 10- 1- 2 0.8462  2 | 0.5542  8 | 24
 4 New Hampshire       24 19- 4- 1 0.8125  4 | 0.6208  2 | 23
 5 Michigan State      25 18- 3- 4 0.8000  5 | 0.5958  4 | 22
 6 Princeton           17 12- 4- 1 0.7353  8 | 0.5498 10 | 21
 7 Michigan            25 17- 5- 3 0.7400  6 | 0.5907  6 | 20
 8 Colorado College    26 17- 8- 1 0.6731  9 | 0.5942  5 | 19
 9 Boston College      25 15- 8- 2 0.6400 11 | 0.5779  7 | 17
10 Connecticut         15  9- 4- 2 0.6667 10 | 0.5298 16 | 17
11 Rensselaer          21 15- 5- 1 0.7381  7 | 0.5407 13 | 16
12 Clarkson            20 10- 9- 1 0.5250 22 | 0.5503  9 | 15
13 Notre Dame          23 13- 7- 3 0.6304 12 | 0.5439 12 | 14
14 Denver              22 12- 9- 1 0.5682 15 | 0.5365 14 | 12
15 Northern Michigan   26 15- 9- 2 0.6154 14 | 0.5469 11 | 10
16 St Lawrence         22 12- 9- 1 0.5682 15 | 0.5346 15 | 10
17 Colgate             20 11- 6- 3 0.6250 13 | 0.5277 17 | 10
18 Ohio State          27 13-10- 4 0.5556 19 | 0.5256 18 | 10
19 Niagara             17  8- 7- 2 0.5294 21 | 0.4919 27 | 10
20 Providence          23 13-10- 0 0.5652 17 | 0.5229 20 |  7
21 Cornell             17  8- 6- 3 0.5588 18 | 0.5254 19 |  6
22 Bowling Green       23 10-10- 3 0.5000 24 | 0.5196 21 |  5
23 Ferris State        24 11- 9- 4 0.5417 20 | 0.5133 22 |  4
24 St Cloud            24 12-11- 1 0.5208 23 | 0.4918 28 |  4
25 Mass Lowell         24 12-12- 0 0.5000 24 | 0.5012 25 |  3
26 Alaska-Anchorage    24 11-11- 2 0.5000 24 | 0.4586 35 |  1
27 Iona                13  6- 6- 1 0.5000 24 | 0.4524 38 |  0
 
 
The Pairwise Ranking is the ranking system used by the NCAA Selection
Committee to determine participants for the NCAA
Division I men's hockey tournament. The PWR compares only those at or
above .500, judging them by five criteria: record against
common opponents, record in last 16 games, head to head competition,
record against other teams at or above .500, and the
Ratings Percentage Index (RPI).
 
For each comparison won, a team receives one point. The final PWR
ranking is based on the number of points (comparisons) won
against teams at or above .500. Ties are settled by the RPI.
 
You can see the complete list of all the individual comparisons.
Warning: this file is very large.
 
The PWR can be reformatted and redistributed by any media outlet or
person, provided USCHO's URL
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Note: A team's record is based only on games against other Division I
hockey schools which are eligible for the NCAA
Tournament. In particular, only non-exhibition matchups between schools
in the five major conferences and non-conference
games (denoted "NC" in USCHO's schedules) against Air Force, Army,
MSU-Mankato and Niagara count towards a team's
record as used in the RPI and PWR. Other games, including contests
against Canadian schools and tournament-ineligible D-I
programs, are not counted.