It was far too late last night. I forgot to add a couple of disclaimers. 1) I am using .003, .002, and .001 as the bonus weights 2) the CHA and Atlantic Hockey champions are automatic qualifiers, so the projected AH winner is also a Team under consideration. 3) placings lower than 16 are not included, so there are, for example, 128 scenarios where UVM finishes lower than 16th 4) my rpi value calculator does not (yet) implement "If a team defeats a weak opponent, it is possible for its RPI to go down despite the win. Starting in 2003-04, if this happens in a team's conference tournament, that game can be thrown out of the RPI calculation for that team." This adjustment impacts the RPI values for CC, Denver, Cornell, Michigan, and Dartmouth. It appears that this does make a difference in the ordering. I've noticed the difference in the three way comparisons between DU, Minnesota, and Cornell My values Without adjustment USCHO values With adjustment RPI rank pwrs won RPI rank pwrs won Denver .5850 ( 4 ) 23 .5874 (3) 24 Minnesota .5776 ( 6 ) 23 .5776 (6) 23 Cornell .5861 ( 3 ) 23 .5861 (4) 22 team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Boston College 128 32 70 26 Colorado Coll 128 128 Denver 38 120 98 Cornell 58 66 21 85 14 12 ------------------------------------------ Minnesota 96 107 53 New Hampshire 15 53 51 68 47 22 Michigan 11 60 86 67 32 Harvard 65 46 89 56 ------------------------------------------ North Dakota 13 44 53 138 4 4 Ohio State 4 92 146 14 Wisconsin 4 32 91 1 96 32 Maine 118 10 128 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Boston Univ 14 5 237 Vermont 32 4 60 32 Colgate 128 4 28 Dartmouth 92 160 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michigan State 32 160 Mass.-Lowell 32 /"\ ASCII Ribbon | charlie shub \ / Campaign Against | University of Colorado at Colorado Springs X HTML in e-mail | [log in to unmask] (719) 262-3492 / \ and news | http://cs.uccs.edu/~cdash (fax) 262-3369