I am not going to make a habit of sending out 2 in 2 days, but here is another TCHCR. The only difference from the 12/14 version is one game, NMU's 4-3 win at Minnesota on Sunday. I want to point on some very important differences. First, notice that ALL of the ratings changed! Everyone is connected to everyone else, so everyone's rating is dependant on everyone else. Here are some rating changes of note: Michigan - 0.28 Yale - 0.06 Maine - 0.08 Lake Superior + 0.26 Clarkson - 0.07 Mich State - 0.01 Minnesota - 2.20 Anchorage - 0.44 North Mich + 2.35 North Dakota - 0.01 Wisconsin + 0.32 Denver + 0.21 Colo College + 0.78 It should be obvious why NMU was the big winner and Minnesota the big loser. But why did CC jump up so much? Because they have played NMU *4 times* and UM *0 times*. You can see which teams have played NMU & UM in non-conference games: Michigan & Anchorage have seen UM (rating fell by over 0.25) and LSSU played NMU (rating climbed by over 0.25). Teams like Yale, Maine, Clarkson and MSU are starting to get more "distant" from these two teams and their ratings did not change much (less than 0.1). North Dakota's small drop is weird because they have played UM twice but not NMU at all. I would have suspected a larger drop, but some of their loss was offset by Denver's rise (who they have already met 4 times) and CC's upward turn (who they've seen twice). All this from just 1 game. Hopefully, you can see that A LOT is going on here. Much more than my brain can handle at this time, anyway. G'nite. Keith The College Hockey Computer Rating compiled by Keith Instone Includes games on 12/15/91. Last week's ranking includes games on 12/8/91. Last Division I Schedule Schedule Rank Week Team Record Rating Strength Rank 1 3 Michigan 9 3 3 77.56 61.85 1 2 7 Yale 6 0 1 77.25 48.27 33 3 2 Maine 11 1 0 77.21 45.31 40 4 1 Lake Superior 11 4 1 75.72 57.74 8 5 5 Clarkson 9 2 0 71.52 47.09 36 6 4 Michigan State 7 2 4 70.37 57.26 14 7 6 Minnesota 10 6 0 70.09 58.69 5 8 8 Alaska-Anchorage 11 2 0 69.84 43.80 43 9 13 Northern Michigan 11 5 2 69.29 54.30 18 10 11 St Lawrence 8 2 0 68.73 45.62 39 11 12 Harvard 4 1 2 66.70 48.10 34 12 10 New Hampshire 9 4 0 64.59 50.34 28 13 9 Western Michigan 7 5 2 62.90 57.32 13 14 17 Providence 10 4 0 60.50 43.69 44 15 14 Boston University 8 4 0 60.42 50.31 29 16 16 Wisconsin 9 6 1 58.59 53.58 22 17 15 UMass-Lowell 6 5 0 55.85 53.61 21 18 25 Miami 7 7 2 55.41 55.73 16 19 19 Minnesota-Duluth 7 8 1 54.24 57.53 10 20 20 Vermont 4 5 0 54.18 56.02 15 21 21 North Dakota 9 7 0 52.71 48.07 35 22 26 Cornell 2 4 2 52.26 60.97 2 23 24 St Cloud 5 7 0 52.25 59.30 4 24 18 Boston College 7 7 1 51.75 53.58 23 25 22 Michigan Tech 7 8 1 50.90 53.33 26 26 27 Brown 3 4 1 48.68 54.16 19 27 31 Ferris State 2 6 4 47.05 58.63 7 28 32 Colorado College 5 8 2 45.95 53.38 25 29 28 RPI 5 6 0 45.83 49.96 30 30 23 Illinois-Chicago 4 8 2 45.59 57.39 12 31 29 Northeastern 3 7 0 43.46 60.19 3 32 36 Princeton 4 6 0 42.62 48.80 32 33 35 Ohio State 4 8 2 41.83 53.93 20 34 33 Bowling Green 3 8 1 41.29 58.63 6 35 30 Alaska-Fairbanks 6 8 0 41.09 45.24 41 36 39 Denver 3 12 1 35.03 57.59 9 37 34 Merrimack 6 8 0 34.83 39.61 45 38 37 Kent 2 8 1 32.22 49.09 31 39 40 Alabama-Huntsville 2 9 0 31.81 54.94 17 40 41 Colgate 1 6 1 30.82 53.56 24 41 42 Dartmouth 1 4 0 29.10 52.71 27 42 38 Notre Dame 3 8 0 25.90 46.30 38 43 44 Union 0 6 0 21.40 57.44 11 44 43 Air Force 1 6 0 20.62 44.16 42 45 45 Army 0 7 0 9.07 46.36 37 Based on 271 Division I games.