Heal Point System Rank for Men's Division I College Hockey, through 02/13/1995. Compiled by Wayne T. Smith This report includes results from 588 of 709 Division I games. Only games between teams with 20 or more Division I games scheduled are counted, as 20 Division I games are required for eligibility to the NCAA tournament, and only games between eligible teams are used in the NCAA selection process. Last Rank Week School Played Record P.I. T.I. 1 1 Michigan 27 of 33 21- 5- 1 31.85 157.45 2 2 Maine 33 of 37 25- 2- 6 33.94 153.95 3 3 Boston University 29 of 34 21- 5- 3 31.03 149.97 4 4 Colorado College 32 of 38 24- 8- 0 30.00 130.54 5 7 Clarkson 25 of 31 16- 5- 4 28.80 129.80 6 6 Minnesota 30 of 36 17-10- 3 24.67 128.70 7 5 New Hampshire 29 of 34 19- 7- 3 28.28 124.09 8 8 Denver 30 of 36 19-10- 1 26.00 118.77 9 9 Wisconsin 31 of 36 15-12- 4 21.94 111.31 10 14 Vermont 26 of 32 14-10- 2 23.08 108.34 11 11 Bowling Green 28 of 34 18- 9- 1 26.43 107.57 12 10 Michigan State 28 of 34 16- 9- 3 25.00 107.53 13 12 Princeton 21 of 27 11- 8- 2 22.86 106.03 14 16 Northeastern 29 of 34 13-11- 5 21.38 104.31 15 13 Harvard 22 of 28 12- 9- 1 22.73 102.11 16 17 Brown 21 of 27 11- 8- 2 22.86 97.22 17 25 Lake Superior 28 of 34 13-10- 5 22.14 94.81 18 18 Michigan Tech 30 of 36 13-13- 4 20.00 94.66 19 15 RPI 25 of 31 13-11- 1 21.60 92.36 20 20 North Dakota 30 of 36 13-16- 1 18.00 91.60 21 26 Miami 30 of 36 14-11- 5 22.00 90.85 22 19 Minnesota-Duluth 31 of 36 12-15- 4 18.06 89.56 23 21 Ferris State 28 of 34 11-13- 4 18.57 88.46 24 22 Colgate 25 of 31 13-11- 1 21.60 85.85 25 24 Mass Lowell 32 of 37 13-15- 4 18.75 81.99 26 29 Western Michigan 30 of 36 13-14- 3 19.33 79.44 27 28 St Cloud 30 of 36 12-17- 1 16.67 78.85 28 27 Alaska-Anchorage 28 of 34 11-17- 0 15.71 78.79 29 23 Northern Michigan 30 of 36 10-17- 3 15.33 76.34 30 31 St Lawrence 23 of 29 8-14- 1 14.78 74.29 31 35 Illinois-Chicago 29 of 35 11-15- 3 17.24 72.08 32 32 Merrimack 28 of 33 11-12- 5 19.29 67.92 33 30 Yale 22 of 28 7-12- 3 15.45 67.09 34 33 Cornell 19 of 25 6-10- 3 15.79 64.10 35 38 Dartmouth 21 of 27 6-13- 2 13.33 62.34 36 34 Boston College 29 of 34 10-17- 2 15.17 62.29 37 37 Providence 29 of 34 9-15- 5 15.86 57.78 38 36 Union 21 of 27 6-12- 3 14.29 54.50 39 39 Ohio State 27 of 33 4-21- 2 7.41 32.83 40 42 Notre Dame 29 of 33 7-21- 1 10.34 32.31 41 41 Alaska-Fairbanks 26 of 28 6-19- 1 10.00 31.78 42 40 Mass Amherst 27 of 32 5-21- 1 8.15 30.91 43 43 Army 9 of 11 1- 8- 0 4.44 24.00 44 44 Air Force 19 of 21 3-15- 1 7.37 21.56 Average ranking of each league: WCHA: 17.10 HEA: 22.00 CCHA: 23.82 ECAC: 22.67 IND: 43.50 Comments on this week's ranking ... 1. The big gainers this week were the CCHA's Lake Superior (25th to 17th place with a sweep over Bowling Green (stayed in 11th place)) and Miami (26th to 21st place with a sweep over Michigan State (fell from 10th to 12th place)). 2. Vermont jumped from 14th to 10th place with a home sweep of Union and RPI, but with much help from the previous 10th-13th place teams Michigan State (0-2), Bowling Green (0-2), Princeton (1-1) and Harvard (1-1) as the wins were against bottom 1/3 teams (St Lawrence and Cornell). 3. Although enough games have been played now to allow us to see a relatively stable week-to-week ranking, the final 3 week of the season and the conference play-offs are critical to all teams vying for the NCAA tournament and for the best possible seed in that tournament. 4. Colorado College beat Northern Michigan twice this week, as predicted by their respective rankings. As it was, Colorado College's foot-hold on 4th place became precarious as Northern Michigan's Preliminary Index of 15.33 is in the bottom third of all teams. Should Colorado College have lost those two games, however, they would have fallen to 7th place (in a virtual tie with 8th place Denver. Northern Michigan might have ended any hopes of a top-12 finish with their two losses moving from 23rd to 29th place. Had Northern Michigan won both, they would have jumped in the HEAL ranking from 23rd to 19th (and close to 17th). 5. Both the post-Beanpot HEAL and RPI have "clumps" of teams at the top (places 1-3 and places 4-7). Both HEAL and RPI agree on the teams in those "clumps", but disagree on "within clump" position. Place HEAL RPI 1 Michigan Boston University 2 Maine Michigan 3 Boston University Maine 4 Colorado College Minnesota 5 Clarkson Colorado College 6 Minnesota New Hampshire 7 New Hampshire Clarkson - - - - - On "The Heal Point System" ... The Heal Point System is used to rank secondary schools in Maine in several sports. The Heal Point System was developed many years ago by Durwood Heal to rank Maine secondary school basketball teams. On the Maine secondary school calculation ... "P.I." stands for "Preliminary Index". "P.I." is calculated for each team by giving a team 40 points for each win and 20 points for each tie, and then dividing by the number of scheduled games. Minimum "P.I." is 1.00. "T.I." stands for "Tournament Index" and is used to rank the teams. "T.I." is calculated for each team by summing the "P.I." of the opponents for each win, one half the "P.I." for each tie, then dividing by the number of games scheduled and then multiplying by 10. Note: This Division I college hockey "Heal Point System" ranking uses the number of games played instead of the number of games scheduled. Since all games in Division I college hockey are normally played, there is no difference between this and the traditional Heal Point System at end of season and this method produces better preliminary results. Game scores for this ranking have been provided by Mike Machnik and HOCKEY-L, The College Hockey Discussion List, an internet mailing list hosted by The University of Maine System. Mr. Machnik's composite of all Division I men's ice hockey games is available in the HOCKEY-L ([log in to unmask]) archives as file "9495COMP SCHEDULE". Copyright 1995 by Wayne T. Smith. Wayne T. Smith [log in to unmask]