Below are listed the YAM2 rankings as of the end of last weekend (1/13/96). An explanation of the YAM2 system has been included at the end of the ranking tables. If some of you are viewing this table using a proportional font for display, try switching to a constant pitch font. It will look a lot cleaner. YAM2 RPI Norm. YAM2 Rank Rank W-L % Sched. Metric 1 1 Minnesota 0.833 1.000 0.833 2 2 Boston University 0.900 0.855 0.770 3 3 Michigan 0.810 0.916 0.741 4 6 Colorado College 0.848 0.853 0.723 5 4 Maine 0.761 0.933 0.710 6 5 Western Michigan 0.739 0.949 0.701 7 7 Lake Superior 0.775 0.889 0.689 8T 8 Denver 0.729 0.904 0.659 8T 9 Michigan State 0.750 0.878 0.659 10 10 Vermont 0.778 0.823 0.640 11 12 Providence 0.700 0.847 0.593 12 11 Clarkson 0.632 0.907 0.573 13 13 Bowling Green 0.643 0.862 0.554 14 14 St. Lawrence 0.605 0.882 0.534 15 15 Minnesota-Duluth 0.596 0.855 0.510 16 17 Mass Lowell 0.643 0.786 0.505 17 18 North Dakota 0.596 0.820 0.489 18 19 Colgate 0.563 0.827 0.465 19 21 Cornell 0.531 0.818 0.435 20 22 Mass Amherst 0.500 0.830 0.415 21 16 New Hampshire 0.429 0.962 0.412 22 23 Michigan Tech 0.438 0.875 0.383 23 26 Harvard 0.472 0.791 0.373 24 20 Boston College 0.386 0.949 0.367 25 24 Northeastern 0.375 0.905 0.339 26 28 Brown 0.406 0.821 0.334 27 30 Wisconsin 0.354 0.853 0.302 28 25 Miami 0.310 0.961 0.298 29 33 Illinois-Chicago 0.370 0.795 0.294 30 29 Alaska-Anchorage 0.318 0.891 0.284 31 31 Ferris State 0.333 0.844 0.281 32 32 Alaska-Fairbanks 0.341 0.820 0.279 33 36 Notre Dame 0.325 0.817 0.265 34 34 Merrimack 0.316 0.836 0.264 35 27 St. Cloud 0.273 0.947 0.258 36 41 Army 0.357 0.710 0.253 37 37 Union 0.281 0.842 0.237 38 40 Rensselaer 0.300 0.769 0.231 39 39 Dartmouth 0.281 0.796 0.224 40 42 Yale 0.313 0.707 0.221 41 35 Ohio State 0.206 0.912 0.188 42 43 Princeton 0.184 0.778 0.143 43 38 Northern Michigan 0.146 0.932 0.136 44 44 Air Force 0.088 0.775 0.068 The YAM2 is an intuitively based simple formula which seeks to measure accomplishment over the course of a season. It will not identify the teams which are currently hot, but views the season as a whole. YAM2 differs from the Rating Percentage Index in its relationship between the Win% and the metric for Strength of Schedule. In YAM2, this is a multiplicative relationship, whereas in the RPI it is additive. YAM2 = (Win%) x (Strength of Schedule) Strength of Schedule is defined in the same way as in the *old* 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 strongest schedule (Minnesota this week). Also, as in the RPI, the head-to-head games are subtracted from the records before calculating the Opp% in order to prevent "inverse" effects on the ranking metric. YAM2 gives equal *mathematical* weight to Win% and Strength of Schedule. However, since Strength of Schedule inherently varies less than Win%, SOS will produce less effect than Win% upon the ranking placements (approximately plus or minus 5 positions, maximum, from experience). As a property of the multiplicative relationship between Win% and Strength of Schedule, YAM2 will not produce "inverse" ranking effects. For instance, it will not raise a ranking if a team goes to Minnesota and loses two games (except in *very* unusual circumstances. Have a happy MLK day, everyone! -- Dick Tuthill HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.