Heal Point System Rank for Men's Division I College Hockey, through 01/10/1999.
Compiled by Wayne T. Smith
This report includes results from 440 Division I games.
Last
Rank Week School Played Record P.I. T.I.
1 1 North Dakota 18 15- 2- 1 34.44 161.80 W30,W30
2 2 Maine 18 12- 2- 4 31.11 156.17 W22,W3,L3
3 3 Boston College 20 12- 6- 2 26.00 144.45 L2,W2
4 7 Michigan 21 15- 4- 2 30.48 142.36 W18,W18
5 4 New Hampshire 20 15- 4- 1 31.00 142.36 W25,W13
6 6 Michigan State 21 16- 3- 2 32.38 138.99 W41,W24
7 5 Niagara 13 7- 4- 2 24.62 137.12 L--,W--
8 8 Colorado College 22 15- 6- 1 28.18 126.62 W20,L20
9 9 Princeton 16 11- 4- 1 28.75 122.15 L31,W15
10 13 Quinnipiac 9 8- 1- 0 35.56 121.64 W50
11 12 Notre Dame 20 12- 6- 2 26.00 118.47 W24,W41
12 14 Rensselaer 18 12- 5- 1 27.78 114.25 W38,W36
13 10 St Lawrence 19 10- 8- 1 22.11 108.09 L28,L5
14 15 Ohio State 22 11- 9- 2 21.82 106.85 W42,L42
15 11 Vermont 17 9- 7- 1 22.35 100.85 L35,L9
16 18 Colgate 17 11- 5- 1 27.06 100.38 -
17 24 Denver 18 9- 8- 1 21.11 100.32 T27,W27
18 16 Ferris State 19 9- 7- 3 22.11 96.80 L4,L4
19 21 Cornell 14 7- 5- 2 22.86 95.84 L23
20 22 St Cloud 20 10- 9- 1 21.00 95.58 L8,W8
21 17 Connecticut 14 9- 4- 1 27.14 91.59 W48,T48
22 19 Boston University 21 8-11- 2 17.14 90.82 L2,T32,L32
23 29 Providence 18 9- 9- 0 20.00 89.75 W19,W29,L29
24 23 Bowling Green 19 9- 9- 1 20.00 85.50 L11,L6
25 20 Clarkson 17 7- 9- 1 17.65 84.78 L5,L28
26 26 Northern Michigan 22 13- 9- 0 23.64 84.70 -
27 27 Minnesota 22 7-11- 4 16.36 84.56 T17,L17
28 31 Mass Lowell 19 10- 9- 0 21.05 83.28 W13,W25
29 28 Northeastern 19 7-11- 1 15.79 82.94 W39,L23,W23
30 25 MSU-Mankato 16 7- 8- 1 18.75 77.09 L1,L1
31 38 Dartmouth 13 5- 7- 1 16.92 75.60 W9,T35
32 34 Merrimack 19 9- 9- 1 20.00 71.67 T22,W22
33 30 Alaska-Anchorage 20 9- 9- 2 20.00 69.00 W40,L40
34 35 Wisconsin 19 7-10- 2 16.84 63.68 W45,W45
35 43 Yale 14 5- 8- 1 15.71 59.08 W15,T31
36 32 Brown 12 2- 6- 4 13.33 56.67 T44,L12
37 37 Western Michigan 19 3-10- 6 12.63 55.23 W43,L43
38 33 Harvard 15 5- 9- 1 14.67 54.91 L12,W44
39 36 Mass Amherst 18 5-12- 1 12.22 53.53 L29
40 40 Michigan Tech 20 5-14- 1 11.00 52.17 L33,W33
41 39 Miami 23 4-15- 4 10.43 47.69 L6,L11
42 44 Lake Superior 20 4-13- 3 11.00 45.21 L14,W14
43 41 Alaska-Fairbanks 19 6-13- 0 12.63 44.47 L37,W37
44 42 Union 17 2-13- 2 7.06 41.98 T36,L38
45 45 Minnesota-Duluth 22 5-15- 2 10.91 35.11 L34,L34
46 47 Holy Cross 12 4- 6- 2 16.67 33.45 T--,W--
47 46 Air Force 10 2- 7- 1 10.00 33.00 W--,W--
48 49 Canisius 10 0- 8- 2 4.00 21.90 L21,T21
49 48 Army 10 2- 8- 0 8.00 17.67 W--,T--
50 50 Iona 10 5- 5- 0 20.00 11.00 L10
51 51 Fairfield 9 0- 9- 0 1.00 0.00 L--,L--
Average ranking of each league(#teams):
This week Last week
WCHA(09): 25.00 25.78
HEA(09): 20.33 20.67
CCHA(11): 24.18 24.18
ECAC(12): 24.42 24.25
MAAC(06): 37.67 37.83
IND(04): 33.25 31.00
This week ...
- Double losses by VT and StLaw enable Quinnipiac to climb to 10th
place. Normally a single victory over a 50th place club would not
allow an advancement, but Quinnipiac's victory was over the now 5-5
Iona. To HEAL, this was a victory over a .500 club, not a victory
over a next to last place club.
- After a brief dip, Michigan returns to the top 4.
- Week's biggest gainer was Yale, jumping from 43rd to 35th place.
(Denver and Dartmouth both gained 7 places).
- Week's biggest loser was shared by Clarkson, Mankato and Harvard
(losing 5 places each).
- Note that BC and Notre Dame both have 12-6-2 records (65% winning
percentage), yet BC is ranked 3rd and Notre Dame 11th. With HEAL,
it's not who you play, it's who you beat, on average.
On this ranking ...
This ranking uses games played by NCAA Division I teams eligible for
consideration to the NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Championships.
Specifically excluded this season are the University of Nebraska-Omaha,
as they are in their last year as an "emerging" NCAA Division I program,
and the two Division II teams from the MAAC (Sacred Heart and American
International).
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 US
College Hockey Online, sometimes supplemented by other sources. Mr.
Machnik's composite of all Division I men's ice hockey games is
available at http://www.uscollegehockey.com/ in the section marked
schedules and then Division I composite schedule.
Copyright 1999 by Wayne T. Smith [log in to unmask]
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