Heal Point System Rank for Men's Division I College Hockey, through 02/26/1995.
Compiled by Wayne T. Smith
This report includes results from 669 of 713 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 31 of 33 24- 6- 1 31.61 159.86
2 2 Maine 35 of 37 26- 3- 6 33.14 155.42
3 3 Boston University 33 of 34 24- 6- 3 30.91 146.47
4 4 Colorado College 36 of 38 27- 9- 0 30.00 133.81
5 5 New Hampshire 32 of 34 21- 7- 4 28.75 128.07
6 6 Minnesota 34 of 36 18-11- 5 24.12 127.60
7 7 Clarkson 29 of 31 17- 8- 4 26.21 119.99
8 8 Denver 34 of 36 21-12- 1 25.29 115.77
9 9 Wisconsin 34 of 36 17-13- 4 22.35 114.17
10 10 Vermont 30 of 32 16-12- 2 22.67 110.13
11 13 Princeton 25 of 27 13- 9- 3 23.20 109.20
12 12 Michigan State 32 of 34 19-10- 3 25.63 108.66
13 11 Brown 25 of 27 13- 9- 3 23.20 101.70
14 16 Lake Superior 32 of 34 16-10- 6 23.75 101.57
15 14 Bowling Green 32 of 34 20-10- 2 26.25 101.25
16 17 RPI 29 of 31 15-12- 2 22.07 98.14
17 18 North Dakota 34 of 36 14-17- 3 18.24 97.23
18 15 Northeastern 33 of 35 15-13- 5 21.21 96.88
19 19 Harvard 26 of 28 13-12- 1 20.77 95.11
20 22 Miami 34 of 36 16-12- 6 22.35 91.14
21 26 St Lawrence 27 of 29 12-14- 1 18.52 90.27
22 21 Colgate 29 of 31 15-13- 1 21.38 90.19
23 23 Minnesota-Duluth 34 of 36 14-16- 4 18.82 89.61
24 20 Michigan Tech 34 of 36 14-16- 4 18.82 87.94
25 25 Mass Lowell 36 of 38 16-16- 4 20.00 86.14
26 27 St Cloud 34 of 36 16-17- 1 19.41 85.59
27 24 Ferris State 32 of 34 12-16- 4 17.50 77.89
28 28 Western Michigan 34 of 36 13-16- 5 18.24 76.41
29 29 Northern Michigan 34 of 36 11-20- 3 14.71 72.84
30 32 Cornell 23 of 25 8-12- 3 16.52 71.27
31 35 Providence 33 of 34 11-16- 6 16.97 70.66
32 30 Merrimack 32 of 33 13-14- 5 19.38 69.86
33 37 Union 25 of 27 8-13- 4 16.00 69.70
34 31 Alaska-Anchorage 32 of 34 11-21- 0 13.75 68.97
35 33 Illinois-Chicago 33 of 35 11-18- 4 15.76 67.96
36 34 Yale 26 of 28 8-15- 3 14.62 65.45
37 36 Dartmouth 25 of 27 7-16- 2 12.80 61.39
38 38 Boston College 32 of 34 10-20- 2 13.75 56.04
39 41 Notre Dame 31 of 33 8-22- 1 10.97 39.31
40 39 Alaska-Fairbanks 28 of 29 7-20- 1 10.71 38.81
41 40 Ohio State 31 of 34 5-24- 2 7.74 34.31
42 42 Mass Amherst 31 of 32 5-25- 1 7.10 27.00
43 43 Air Force 21 of 21 5-15- 1 10.48 23.16
44 44 Army 11 of 11 1-10- 0 3.64 20.06
Average ranking of each league:
WCHA: 18.00
HEA: 21.78
CCHA: 24.73
ECAC: 21.25
IND: 43.50
Notes for this issue ...
- Though the top 10 are unchanged, New Hampshire and Minnesota are
stalking 4th place, long held by Colorado College.
- Bowling Green and Northeastern swept their weekend series, but
unfortunately for them, they were against the #41 and #42 teams
and each team fell in the rankings.
- HEAL and unofficial RPI have essentially the same top 6 (top 3 are
essentially tied using RPI).
- RPI ranks 2 teams significantly higher than HEAL. Michigan State at
#7 (HEAL #12) and Northeastern at #10 (HEAL #18) show two important
differences of RPI and HEAL. In the case of Michigan State, we have a
team with a very good winning% and average schedule. But Michigan
State has done relatively poorly against the top teams. Most of their
wins are against lowly ranked teams. RPI doesn't measure that, just
winning%. With HEAL, it matters who you beat. Northeastern (15-13-5)
has a just above average winning%, but has played a difficult
schedule. RPI counts the schedule difficulty more than HEAL and so
gives Northeastern a relatively high ranking. HEAL ranks Northeastern
more appropriately, in my opinion! :-) (If anyone has an idea on how
to measure how HEAL and RPI treat schedule difficulty, I'd like to
hear from you!)
- The total "Division I games" to be played number seen near the top of
this issue, now at 713, will increase as league tournament games are
entered into the composite schedule data base.
- Ignoring other effects, including other end of season games and the
upcoming league tournaments, the upcoming Maine-New Hampshire series
is important for both teams. The results if HEAL were used to rank
the teams:
- split: no effect (New Hampshire would increase it's lead over
Minnesota slightly).
- Maine wins both: Maine moves into a virtual tie with Michigan for #1
with New Hampshire dropping into a tie for #6 with Clarkson.
- New Hampshire wins both: New Hampshire moves up to 4th as Maine
slides back into a tie with Boston University for #2.
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. [log in to unmask]