The PairWise Ranking system is used by the NCAA selection committees to seed the Championship tournaments. RPI (Ratings Percentage Index) is a tiebreaker within PWR. RPI can overestimate the strength of a team's schedule if their opponents also played predominantly weak schedules. Below is USCHO's approximation. 2001-2002 Division I Women Ratings Percentage Index Rk Team GP W- L- T WinPer Rk | OPer Rk | OOPer Rk | RPI 1 Minn-Duluth 14 11- 0- 3 0.8929 2 | 0.5405 9 | 0.5963 1 | 0.6722 2 Northeastern 11 10- 1- 0 0.9091 1 | 0.5276 11 | 0.5952 2 | 0.6713 3 Minnesota 16 11- 2- 3 0.7812 4 | 0.6065 5 | 0.5001 13 | 0.6517 4 St. Lawrence 11 6- 5- 0 0.5455 10 | 0.6971 1 | 0.5204 8 | 0.6175 5 Dartmouth 7 6- 1- 0 0.8571 3 | 0.4334 17 | 0.5731 3 | 0.6026 6 Niagara 16 12- 4- 0 0.7500 6 | 0.4786 13 | 0.5521 5 | 0.5846 7 New Hampshire 11 8- 2- 1 0.7727 5 | 0.4532 15 | 0.5212 7 | 0.5752 8 Ohio State 15 6- 6- 3 0.5000 11 | 0.5521 8 | 0.5110 10 | 0.5277 9 Brown 9 3- 5- 1 0.3889 15 | 0.6131 4 | 0.5642 4 | 0.5273 10 Harvard 10 4- 6- 0 0.4000 13 | 0.6140 3 | 0.5303 6 | 0.5265 2001-2002 Division III Women Ratings Percentage Index Rk Team GP W- L- T WinPer Rk | OPer Rk | OOPer Rk | RPI 1 Wis.-St Pt 10 10- 0- 0 1.0000 1 | 0.5314 12 | 0.5177 12 | 0.6934 2 Gustavus 8 6- 1- 1 0.8125 10 | 0.6429 4 | 0.5370 6 | 0.6864 3 Middlebury 7 7- 0- 0 1.0000 1 | 0.4872 17 | 0.5421 5 | 0.6749 4 Wis.-Superior 11 10- 1- 0 0.9091 6 | 0.4695 23 | 0.5887 1 | 0.6413 5 RIT 6 5- 0- 1 0.9167 4 | 0.4833 21 | 0.3889 34 | 0.6208 6 S Maine 6 4- 0- 2 0.8333 7 | 0.5139 13 | 0.4782 25 | 0.6203 7 St. Mary's 8 4- 3- 1 0.5625 13 | 0.6875 1 | 0.5236 10 | 0.6192 8 Colby 6 5- 1- 0 0.8333 7 | 0.4851 19 | 0.5321 8 | 0.6140 Bowdoin 6 5- 1- 0 0.8333 7 | 0.4851 19 | 0.5321 8 | 0.6140 10 Mville 6 5- 0- 1 0.9167 4 | 0.4119 28 | 0.5449 3 | 0.6085 Which means, PWR should be arriving soon! ===== ____________________ \ good shooting rhun \____________________ Women's College Ice Hockey from rhun: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~cwinters __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com