Ranking Systems for D1 College Hockey (2016-2017)

© 1999-2016, Joe Schlobotnik (archives)

URL for this frameset: http://elynah.com/tbrw/tbrw.cgi?2017/rankings.shtml

Game results taken from College Hockey News's Division I composite schedule

Comparison Between Rankings

The following table lists the 60 teams eligible for the NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Team Record RPI KRACH PWR
Rk W-L-T Pct. Rk Rating Rk Rating RRWP Rk Rating
Harvard 1 26-5-2 .8182 3 .5968 3 580.1 .8233 3 57
Denver U 2 29-7-4 .7750 1 .6041 1 680.9 .8440 1 59
Minn-Duluth 3 25-6-7 .7500 2 .6033 2 657.6 .8397 2 58
Union 4 25-9-3 .7162 8 .5570 8 281.7 .7086 8 52
Air Force 5 26-9-5 .7125 12 .5476 22 162.8 .6021 12 48
Mass-Lowell 6 26-10-3 .7051 5 .5636 5 349.4 .7463 5 55
Cornell 7 21-8-5 .6912 11 .5504 9 280.9 .7080 11 49
Penn State 8 24-11-2 .6757 9 .5556 12 251.0 .6874 9 51
Boston Univ 9T 23-11-3 .6622 7 .5614 6 338.3 .7408 7 53
Minnesota 9T 23-11-3 .6622 4 .5637 10 279.9 .7074 4 56
Providence 11 22-11-5 .6447 13 .5472 13 242.2 .6806 14 45
Notre Dame 12 21-11-5 .6351 14 .5464 11 265.4 .6977 13 47
Ohio State 13T 21-11-6 .6316 15 .5430 17 196.6 .6402 15 45
Robert Morris 13T 22-12-4 .6316 26 .5133 32 95.34 .4899 26 34
Canisius 15T 21-11-7 .6282 25 .5137 35 90.07 .4779 25 35
Western Mich 15T 22-12-5 .6282 6 .5629 4 352.2 .7476 6 54
MSU-Mankato 17 22-13-4 .6154 28 .5121 28 103.7 .5077 28 32
Michigan Tech 18 23-14-7 .6023 27 .5131 27 104.0 .5084 27 33
Quinnipiac 19 23-15-2 .6000 21 .5270 20 167.0 .6074 21 39
Vermont 20 20-13-5 .5921 17 .5341 15 206.5 .6498 17 43
North Dakota 21 21-15-3 .5769 10 .5510 7 293.7 .7161 10 50
Boston Coll 22 21-15-4 .5750 16 .5395 14 228.6 .6696 16 45
Bemidji State 23 22-16-3 .5732 29 .5044 33 95.14 .4895 29 31
Wisconsin 24 20-15-1 .5694 18 .5337 18 192.4 .6359 18 42
Army 25T 18-14-5 .5541 36 .4916 40 62.63 .4020 36 24
St Lawrence 25T 17-13-7 .5541 23 .5205 23 161.2 .6001 23 37
Northeastern 27 18-15-5 .5395 22 .5267 21 164.6 .6044 22 38
Bowling Green 28 21-18-2 .5366 38 .4891 38 69.34 .4230 38 22
Clarkson 29 18-16-5 .5256 24 .5178 24 140.9 .5722 24 36
NE-Omaha 30 17-17-5 .5000 19 .5308 16 203.2 .6467 19 41
Merrimack 31 15-16-6 .4865 30 .5029 26 119.0 .5369 30 30
Holy Cross 32 14-15-7 .4861 40 .4771 44 49.41 .3544 40 20
Princeton 33 15-16-3 .4853 33 .4954 31 95.41 .4901 33 27
Yale 34 13-15-5 .4697 32 .4963 29 103.3 .5068 32 28
St Cloud 35 16-19-1 .4583 20 .5281 19 173.9 .6155 20 40
Connecticut 36 12-16-8 .4444 34 .4927 37 88.28 .4736 34 26
New Hampshire 37 15-20-5 .4375 35 .4920 34 92.53 .4836 35 24
Mercyhurst 38 15-20-4 .4359 45 .4656 50 38.62 .3073 45 15
Bentley 39 13-19-7 .4231 41 .4742 45 47.64 .3472 41 19
Ferris State 40T 13-19-5 .4189 49 .4574 49 41.02 .3186 49 11
Sacred Heart 40T 13-19-5 .4189 42 .4733 47 43.83 .3311 42 18
Michigan 42 13-19-3 .4143 37 .4899 30 97.31 .4942 37 23
Lake Superior 43 11-18-7 .4028 53 .4503 51 37.36 .3012 53 7
RIT 44 14-22-1 .3919 51 .4529 53 34.79 .2882 51 9
AK-Fairbanks 45 12-20-4 .3889 52 .4518 52 36.44 .2966 52 8
Northern Mich 46 13-22-4 .3846 48 .4583 48 43.04 .3276 48 12
Dartmouth 47 10-18-3 .3710 43 .4705 39 62.75 .4024 43 17
Maine 48 11-21-4 .3611 46 .4635 41 58.49 .3881 46 14
Miami 49 9-20-7 .3472 31 .4971 25 123.5 .5447 31 29
American Intl 50 8-20-8 .3333 54 .4356 57 23.66 .2235 54 6
Colgate 51 9-22-6 .3243 50 .4561 46 47.40 .3462 50 10
Arizona State 52 8-19-3 .3167 44 .4669 42 53.34 .3695 44 16
AL-Huntsville 53 9-22-3 .3088 56 .4268 56 24.22 .2272 56 3
AK-Anchorage 54 7-21-6 .2941 57 .4256 55 25.18 .2334 57 3
CO College 55 8-24-4 .2778 39 .4834 36 89.70 .4770 39 22
Mich State 56 7-24-4 .2571 47 .4598 43 51.45 .3623 47 13
RPI 57 8-28-1 .2297 55 .4302 54 27.75 .2492 55 5
Mass-Amherst 58T 5-29-2 .1667 58 .4190 58 23.39 .2218 58 3
Niagara 58T 5-31-3 .1667 60 .3965 60 10.67 .1208 60 0
Brown 60 4-25-2 .1613 59 .4150 59 18.50 .1872 59 1
Record
A team's winning percentage (Pct) is calculating by adding its wins to half its ties and dividing by the total number of games played. I.e., a tie counts as a half a win and half a loss, which is true for all the rating systems considered here.
RPI
The Ratings Percentage Index, a linear combination of a team's winning percentage (25%) with the winning percentages of their opponents (21%) and their opponents' opponents (54%), which is the most important of the NCAA's selection criteria. More information can be found on our RPI page. Note the value in our table includes the "bad wins" fudge but not the secret "quality wins" bonus. To calculate the ratings using a chosen value of the bonus, go to our Do-it-yourself ratings calculator.
KRACH
Ken's Rating for American College Hockey is an application of the Bradley-Terry method to college hockey; a team's rating is meant to indicate its relative strength on a multiplicative scale, so that the ratio of two teams' ratings gives the odds of each of them winning a game between them. The ratings are chosen so that the expected winning percentage for each team based on its schedule is equal to its actual winning percentage. The Round-Robin Winning Percentage (RRWP) is the winning percentage a team would be expected to accumulate if they played each other team an equal number of times. More information can be found on our KRACH page.
PWR
The PairWise Rating is determined by performing PairWise Comparisons (PWC) according to the NCAA's selection criteria between all teams with RPI's at or above .500 and totalling the number of comparisons each team wins. More information, including a breakdown of comparisons won and lost according to criteria, can be found on our PWC/PWR page.

See also

Last Modified: 2020 February 1

Joe Schlobotnik / joe@amurgsval.org

HTML 4.0 compliant CSS2 compliant