I tried to send this out yesterday, but got blown off line by noise that my modem didn't like. Sorry about that if anyone received gibberish. Back at the office today, so I can re-post without fear. As promised, here are the YAM2 rankings as of last weekend. The YAM2 is an intuitively based simple formula which seeks to measure accomplishment over the course of the season. It will not identify the teams which are currently hot, but views the season as a whole. YAM2 = (Win%) x (Strength of Sched.) Strength of schedule is quantified the same way as in RPI: namely 2 parts Opp% added to 1 part Opp-Opp%. In this implementation the strength of schedule is normalized to the value of the stongest schedule (Minnesota this week). YAM2 will not raise a ranking if a team goes to Maine and loses two games. It also gives equal weight to win% and strength of schedule. Ranking as of 1/29/95: YAM2 RPI Norm. YAM2 Rank Rank W-L % Sched. Metric 1 2 Michigan 0.8043 0.9378 0.7543 2 3 Maine 0.8276 0.9081 0.7515 3 1 Boston_University 0.7400 0.9937 0.7353 4 4 Colorado_College 0.7500 0.9173 0.6880 5 5 New_Hampshire 0.7000 0.9338 0.6536 6 7 Michigan_State 0.7083 0.9003 0.6377 7 9 Clarkson 0.6905 0.8973 0.6196 8 8 Bowling_Green 0.6875 0.8995 0.6184 9 14 Brown 0.6563 0.8862 0.5816 10 10 Denver 0.6346 0.9100 0.5775 11 6 Minnesota 0.5769 1.0000 0.5769 12 11 Harvard 0.6176 0.9190 0.5676 13 16 RPI 0.6190 0.8546 0.5290 14 12 Wisconsin 0.5370 0.9638 0.5176 15 13 Northeastern 0.5200 0.9736 0.5063 16 15 Michigan_Tech 0.5192 0.9469 0.4916 17 19 Vermont 0.5455 0.8805 0.4803 18 17 Princeton 0.5294 0.8998 0.4763 19 24 Colgate 0.5227 0.8699 0.4547 20 21 Western_Michigan 0.5000 0.9019 0.4510 21 18 Minnesota-Duluth 0.4815 0.9248 0.4453 22 20 North_Dakota 0.4808 0.9142 0.4395 23 23 Lake_Superior 0.4792 0.9085 0.4354 24 28 Merrimack 0.5000 0.8671 0.4335 25 29 Mass_Lowell 0.5000 0.8617 0.4309 26 25 Miami 0.4808 0.8908 0.4283 27 26 Northern_Michigan 0.4423 0.9060 0.4007 28 30 Yale 0.4444 0.8836 0.3927 29 31 Ferris_State 0.4423 0.8700 0.3848 30 22 St_Cloud 0.3846 0.9709 0.3734 31 34 Illinois-Chicago 0.4423 0.8415 0.3722 32 36 Providence 0.4038 0.8593 0.3470 33 32 Alaska-Anchorage 0.3750 0.9076 0.3404 34 27 St_Lawrence 0.3421 0.9656 0.3303 35 33 Boston_College 0.3600 0.9144 0.3292 36 35 Cornell 0.3667 0.8853 0.3246 37 38 Union 0.3824 0.8457 0.3234 38 37 Dartmouth 0.2941 0.9096 0.2675 39 39 Alaska-Fairbanks 0.2708 0.8832 0.2392 40 42 Mass_Amherst 0.2391 0.8211 0.1963 41 40 Notre_Dame 0.2200 0.8836 0.1944 42 41 Ohio_State 0.2174 0.8846 0.1923 43 43 Air_Force 0.1842 0.8458 0.1558 44 44 Army 0.1111 0.7784 0.0865 Some observations. BU looks to be in its proper place (please, no flames), Minnesota drops substantially, Brown does the opposite. SLU no longer gets credit for going to Maine:-):-) Does this ranking have the right "feel"? In actual fact, that is all we really have to go on. -- Dick Tuthill