Below are listed 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). Also, as in the RPI, the head to head games are subtracted from the records before calculating the averages in order to prevent "inverse" effects on the ranking metric. 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. Rankings as of 2/13/95: YAM2 RPI W-L% Norm. YAM2 Rank Rank Sched. Metric 1 3 Maine 0.849 0.917 0.778 2 1 Boston_University 0.768 0.998 0.767 3 2 Michigan 0.796 0.959 0.764 4 4 Colorado_College 0.750 0.918 0.689 5 6 New_Hampshire 0.707 0.936 0.661 6 7 Clarkson 0.720 0.911 0.656 7 5 Minnesota 0.617 1.000 0.617 8 10 Denver 0.650 0.911 0.592 9 11 Bowling_Green 0.661 0.888 0.586 10 9 Michigan_State 0.625 0.928 0.580 11 14 Harvard 0.595 0.911 0.542 12 13 Princeton 0.571 0.929 0.531 13 12 Wisconsin 0.548 0.954 0.523 14 16 Brown 0.571 0.909 0.519 15 18 Vermont 0.577 0.898 0.518 16 8 Northeastern 0.518 0.995 0.515 17 17 Lake_Superior 0.554 0.917 0.508 18 19 Miami 0.550 0.907 0.499 19 15 Michigan_Tech 0.500 0.959 0.480 20 23 Colgate 0.540 0.880 0.475 21 25 RPI 0.540 0.870 0.470 22 22 Western_Michigan 0.483 0.924 0.447 23 21 North_Dakota 0.450 0.948 0.427 24 26 Mass_Lowell 0.469 0.905 0.424 25 32 Merrimack 0.482 0.878 0.423 26 24 Minnesota-Duluth 0.452 0.929 0.420 27 29 Ferris_State 0.464 0.903 0.419 28 20 St_Cloud 0.417 0.981 0.409 29 34 Illinois-Chicago 0.431 0.882 0.380 30 30 Boston_College 0.393 0.945 0.371 31 31 Alaska-Anchorage 0.393 0.939 0.369 32 27 Northern_Michigan 0.383 0.957 0.367 33 28 St_Lawrence 0.370 0.965 0.357 34 36 Providence 0.397 0.894 0.355 35 33 Yale 0.386 0.916 0.354 35T 35 Cornell 0.395 0.896 0.354 37 38 Union 0.357 0.858 0.306 38 37 Dartmouth 0.333 0.912 0.304 39 40 Notre_Dame 0.259 0.884 0.229 40 39 Alaska-Fairbanks 0.250 0.908 0.227 41 41 Mass_Amherst 0.204 0.890 0.181 42 42 Ohio_State 0.185 0.872 0.161 43 43 Air_Force 0.184 0.832 0.153 44 44 Army 0.111 0.785 0.087 Comments: Maine moves into number 1, BU into number 2, Michigan drops to number 3, and Minnesota moves from 10 to 7 -- based on the compilation done for last week but not posted publicly. -- Dick Tuthill *********************************************************************** * Congrats to UConn Husky hoops -- both men and women * (With all those TV $$$$$, can a new rink be far off in Storrs?) ***********************************************************************