There was one interesting movement from this weekend's play: Lake Superior jumped ahead of Minnesota with its CCHA Championship. I weigh the league title games 50% more than a regular season game, so that helped LSSU pull into #2. There was one interesting non-movement, too: Northern Michigan failed to catch Michigan State. This #4 East seed for Boston University still puzzles me. I guess either Jackie Parker WANTS to play Maine at Providence, or else the other 3 committee members don't like him. I dunno. Next week's TCHCR will be fun to watch, as all 4 first round games represent new connections. 3 of the 4 second round games may be first- time match-ups. Keith ================================================================= The College Hockey Computer Rating compiled by Keith Instone NOTE: TCHCR was *not* used in conjunction with the NCAA selection process. Includes games on 3/22/92. Division I Schedule Schedule Rank Seed Team Record Rating Strength Rank 1 1W Michigan 31 8 3 83.80 63.34 10 2 3W Lake Superior 25 9 4 83.51 65.76 5 3 2W Minnesota 33 10 0 81.64 60.64 16 4 1E Maine 29 3 2 77.85 47.05 25 5 5W Michigan State 22 10 8 77.12 64.95 7 6 4W Northern Michigan 24 13 3 75.13 61.99 13 7 6W Wisconsin 24 13 2 69.80 60.54 17 8 Western Michigan 16 14 6 66.27 64.36 8 9 6E Alaska-Anchorage 21 7 1 64.18 46.21 27 10 Miami 17 17 6 63.90 65.27 6 11 4E Boston University 21 8 4 61.99 47.87 24 12 Ferris State 13 18 7 59.67 65.95 4 13 3E New Hampshire 22 12 2 59.58 48.74 23 14 2E St Lawrence 22 8 1 59.22 40.43 39 15 Colorado College 18 18 5 59.01 59.98 18 16 Providence 21 13 2 58.92 49.89 22 17 North Dakota 17 21 1 56.78 61.69 15 18 Minnesota-Duluth 15 20 2 56.59 61.87 14 19 5E Clarkson 20 9 1 56.20 40.07 42 20 Ohio State 12 21 5 56.13 66.36 3 21 Michigan Tech 15 22 1 55.76 64.05 9 22 Illinois-Chicago 10 20 6 55.52 66.74 2 23 St Cloud 13 21 1 54.36 63.12 11 24 Bowling Green 8 21 5 54.13 68.03 1 25 Harvard 14 7 6 53.88 43.65 33 26 Yale 12 7 7 47.86 42.23 36 27 Boston College 14 18 3 47.62 52.97 20 28 Cornell 14 11 4 46.34 41.19 37 29 Denver 9 25 2 44.72 62.13 12 30 Vermont 15 12 3 44.22 39.99 43 31 UMass-Lowell 9 19 4 42.02 54.82 19 32 Alaska-Fairbanks 14 17 0 41.35 44.29 30 33 Kent 10 14 2 41.00 46.23 26 34 RPI 13 15 4 40.50 43.41 34 35 Northeastern 12 20 0 39.43 50.28 21 36 Princeton 12 14 1 37.97 40.39 40 37 Brown 10 16 4 36.85 43.92 32 38 Colgate 12 16 1 36.60 41.00 38 39 Merrimack 12 21 0 35.41 46.19 28 40 Alabama-Huntsville 8 11 0 33.80 39.98 44 41 Notre Dame 8 19 0 27.04 44.81 29 42 Dartmouth 3 21 2 16.18 44.01 31 43 Air Force 4 22 0 13.83 39.20 45 44 Union 2 21 1 11.96 42.77 35 45 Army 2 16 0 9.38 40.22 41 The College Hockey Computer Rating uses a connected schedule graph and a least squares optimization to rate the 45 Division I college hockey teams. This method considers a team's opponents, and their opponents, etc., until all 739 Division I games are included. In addition to rating the teams, a strength of schedule is calculated for each team. The schedule strength can be computed by averaging the ratings of a team's opponents for each game. For every game, the teams are evaluated based on: the outcome (win, lose, tie); the margin of victory; percentage of goals allowed; the site of the game (home, away, neutral ice); and overtime or regulation time. Only games against other Division I teams are considered. Play-off games are weighted more than regular season games.