Heal Point System Rank for Men's Division I College Hockey, through 12/21/1996.
Compiled by Wayne T. Smith
 
This report includes results from 312 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 (+ Maine) are used in the NCAA selection p
 
     Last
Rank Week School          Played   Record      P.I.     T.I.
 1     1  Vermont            13    9- 4- 0    27.69   165.03
 2     2  Michigan           16   14- 1- 1    36.25   140.75
 3     4  New Hampshire      15   13- 2- 0    34.67   137.05
 4     3  Cornell            10    6- 3- 1    26.00   134.46
 5     5  Miami              16   13- 3- 0    32.50   133.77
 6     7  North Dakota       16   11- 4- 1    28.75   130.34
 7     6  Michigan State     15   10- 5- 0    26.67   129.11
 8     8  Minnesota          16   10- 6- 0    25.00   128.34
 9    10  St Cloud           18   12- 4- 2    28.89   123.14 W28, W28
10     9  Colorado College   16   10- 5- 1    26.25   122.35
11    11  Boston University  15   10- 3- 2    29.33   110.67
12    13  Clarkson           13    8- 5- 0    24.62   107.23
13    14  Dartmouth           9    6- 3- 0    26.67   103.10 W33
14    15  Rensselaer         13    7- 4- 2    24.62   102.89
15    20  Maine              14    6- 7- 1    18.57   102.47 W16
16    12  Princeton          14    9- 3- 2    28.57   101.10 W20, L15
17    16  Denver             16    8- 6- 2    22.50    97.35
18    18  Colgate            14    7- 6- 1    21.43    90.11
19    19  Wisconsin          16    7- 8- 1    18.75    88.68
20    17  Union              12    4- 7- 1    15.00    87.62 L16
21    21  Bowling Green      17    7- 8- 2    18.82    83.65
22    26  Minnesota-Duluth   20   11- 8- 1    23.00    82.13 W30, W30
23    23  Mass Lowell        14    8- 6- 0    22.86    80.19
24    24  Boston College     16    7- 8- 1    18.75    79.48
25    22  Yale               10    3- 5- 2    16.00    79.31
26    25  Lake Superior      20   12- 7- 1    25.00    75.85
27    28  Western Michigan   15    6- 7- 2    18.67    70.75
28    27  Alaska-Anchorage   16    5- 9- 2    15.00    62.26 L09, L09
29    30  St Lawrence        13    4- 8- 1    13.85    57.20
30    29  Harvard            14    5- 7- 2    17.14    52.46 L22, L22
31    31  Northern Michigan  20    4-14- 2    10.00    52.32
32    33  Ferris State       14    5- 9- 0    14.29    47.72
33    32  Merrimack          15    3-11- 1     9.33    46.68 L13
34    36  Army                8    1- 6- 1     7.50    46.61
35    34  Mass Amherst       16    7- 9- 0    17.50    46.37
36    35  Notre Dame         14    4- 9- 1    12.86    46.30
37    38  Northeastern       15    2-11- 2     8.00    44.55
38    37  Providence         16    6- 9- 1    16.25    43.88
39    39  Alaska-Fairbanks   19    4-15- 0     8.42    33.77
40    40  Ohio State         17    4-13- 0     9.41    32.83
41    41  Michigan Tech      14    2-11- 1     7.14    28.17
42    42  Brown              11    1- 9- 1     5.45    27.53
43    43  Air Force           3    0- 3- 0     1.00     0.00
 
 
Average ranking of each league(#teams):
 
  WCHA(10):      19.10
   HEA(09):      24.33
  CCHA(10):      23.50
  ECAC(12):      18.67
 
Notes for this week ...
 
  - The very light schedule led to very little movement in the
    ranking.  The exceptions were Maine and Princeton and those
    changes were due to the ME-PU game (6-1) in the JCPenney Classic.
 
  - The "Last Week" ranking is one corrected from the distributed
    HEAL report of last week, as Mankato State was incorrectly
    included last week.
 
  - The right-most column in the rankings shows results (Win or Loss)
    and opponents' position in ranking for each game played this week.
 
  - Happy Holidays!
 
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
INFO-HOCKEY-L, The College Hockey Information 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 list
archives ([log in to unmask]) as file "9697MCMP SCHEDULE" and,
with all team schedules, at US College Hockey Online
 
   http://www.uscollegehockey.com/
 
Copyright 1996 by Wayne T. Smith                   [log in to unmask]