Heal Point System Rank for Men's Division I College Hockey, through 03/21/1998. (end of post-season conference tournaments) Compiled by Wayne T. Smith This report includes results from 758 Division I games. Last Rank Week School Played Record P.I. T.I. This week 1 1 Michigan State 40 31- 5- 4 33.00 160.51 W17,W7 2 2 North Dakota 38 30- 7- 1 32.11 149.60 W12,L9 3 3 Boston University 36 27- 7- 2 31.11 141.05 - 4 4 Boston College 38 25- 8- 5 28.95 129.63 W36,W18 5 5 Michigan 40 28-11- 1 28.50 124.50 L7 6 6 Clarkson 33 22- 8- 3 28.48 123.19 W24,L11 7 9 Ohio State 38 24-12- 2 26.32 119.54 W5,L1 8 8 New Hampshire 34 22-11- 1 26.47 119.30 - 9 11 Wisconsin 38 24-13- 1 25.79 117.35 W13,W2 10 7 Yale 34 23- 8- 3 28.82 115.73 L11,L24 11 19 Princeton 33 16-10- 7 23.64 106.70 W19,W10,W6 12 10 St Cloud 38 20-16- 2 22.11 105.71 W14,L2,L13 13 13 Colorado College 40 25-12- 3 26.50 104.19 L9,W12 14 12 Minnesota-Duluth 38 19-17- 2 21.05 102.28 L12 15 14 Miami 36 18-14- 4 22.22 101.78 - 16 15 Northeastern 37 19-15- 3 22.16 100.38 - 17 16 Northern Michigan 37 18-15- 4 21.62 97.33 L1 18 17 Maine 33 15-14- 4 20.61 96.93 W27,L4 19 18 Cornell 32 14-16- 2 18.75 90.54 L11 20 20 Notre Dame 40 17-19- 4 19.00 89.78 - 21 21 Rensselaer 34 17-13- 4 22.35 89.18 - 22 22 Minnesota 39 17-22- 0 17.44 88.41 - 23 24 Colgate 33 14-15- 4 19.39 85.05 - 24 27 Harvard 33 14-17- 2 18.18 84.94 L6,W10 25 23 Lake Superior 36 15-17- 4 18.89 84.70 - 26 26 Brown 31 13-16- 2 18.06 81.96 - 27 25 Mass Lowell 36 16-17- 3 19.44 79.93 L18 28 28 Ferris State 38 15-20- 3 17.37 79.05 - 29 29 Providence 36 15-18- 3 18.33 74.65 - 30 30 Michigan Tech 37 14-20- 3 16.76 71.66 - 31 31 Dartmouth 29 11-13- 5 18.62 68.30 - 32 32 Vermont 34 10-20- 4 14.12 64.46 - 33 33 Denver 36 11-23- 2 13.33 61.86 - 34 34 St Lawrence 32 8-20- 4 12.50 57.09 - 35 35 Mankato State 30 12-15- 3 18.00 53.80 - 36 36 Merrimack 37 10-26- 1 11.35 50.87 L4 37 37 Western Michigan 37 10-25- 2 11.89 49.72 - 38 38 Alaska-Fairbanks 32 8-20- 4 12.50 48.87 - 39 39 Bowling Green 37 7-27- 3 9.19 44.36 - 40 40 Alaska-Anchorage 36 6-25- 5 9.44 40.80 - 41 41 Union 30 5-21- 4 9.33 40.65 - 42 42 Mass Amherst 31 5-23- 3 8.39 34.25 - 43 43 Army 17 2-15- 0 4.71 17.97 - 44 44 Air Force 12 3- 9- 0 10.00 14.83 - Average ranking of each league(#teams): This week Last week WCHA(09): 17.50 17.40 HEA(09): 20.33 21.11 CCHA(11): 23.20 21.40 ECAC(12): 23.17 24.33 On the rankings this week ... 1. Princeton ... WOW! MSU. Wisc and BC are other conference winners. 2. Most HEAL ranking positions in the top 12 are within one position of PWR, used by the NCAA Selection Committee ... except for CC. CC, ranked 10th in my estimated PWR, would be bypassed in a HEAL-ranked tournament. :-) 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 US College Hockey Online, sometimes supplimented by other sources. Mr. Machnik's composite of all Division I men's ice hockey games is available at http://www.uscollegehockey.com/ in the section marked schedules and then Division I composite schedule. Copyright 1998 by Wayne T. Smith [log in to unmask]