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Pairwise Comparisons and PWR for D1 College Hockey (2017-2018)

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

Pairwise Comparisons (including games of 2018 March 17)

Pairwise Comparisons
Rk Team PWR RPI Comparisons Won
1 St Cloud  (nt) 59 .5917 Nt Cr OS DU Mk Pv Mi NE Ck PS MD Mn ND BU BC BG Pn NO NM MT Un Mh CC WM Wi AF Ha Me Mm BS Qn Cg Ct MS MA Ca Da Ya ML Ar Mr RM AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
2 Notre Dame  (he) 57 .5864 Cr OS   Mk Pv Mi NE Ck PS MD Mn ND BU BC BG Pn NO NM MT Un Mh CC WM Wi AF Ha Me Mm BS Qn Cg Ct MS MA Ca Da Ya ML Ar Mr RM AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
3 Cornell  (ec) 57 .5762   OS DU Mk Pv Mi NE Ck PS MD Mn ND BU BC BG Pn NO NM MT Un Mh CC WM Wi AF Ha Me Mm BS Qn Cg Ct MS MA Ca Da Ya ML Ar Mr RM AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
4 Ohio State  (bt) 56 .5755     DU Mk Pv Mi NE Ck PS MD Mn ND BU BC BG Pn NO NM MT Un Mh CC WM Wi AF Ha Me Mm BS Qn Cg Ct MS MA Ca Da Ya ML Ar Mr RM AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
5 Denver U  (nt) 56 .5746 Nt     Mk Pv Mi NE Ck PS MD Mn ND BU BC BG Pn NO NM MT Un Mh CC WM Wi AF Ha Me Mm BS Qn Cg Ct MS MA Ca Da Ya ML Ar Mr RM AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
6 MSU-Mankato  (wc) 54 .5645         Pv Mi NE Ck PS MD Mn ND BU BC BG Pn NO NM MT Un Mh CC WM Wi AF Ha Me Mm BS Qn Cg Ct MS MA Ca Da Ya ML Ar Mr RM AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
7 Providence  (he) 53 .5474           Mi NE Ck PS MD Mn ND BU BC BG Pn NO NM MT Un Mh CC WM Wi AF Ha Me Mm BS Qn Cg Ct MS MA Ca Da Ya ML Ar Mr RM AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
8 Michigan  (bt) 51 .5453             NE Ck PS MD Mn ND BU BC   Pn NO NM MT Un Mh CC WM Wi AF Ha Me Mm BS Qn Cg Ct MS MA Ca Da Ya ML Ar Mr RM AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
9 NorthEastern  (he) 51 .5449               Ck PS MD Mn ND BU BC BG Pn NO NM MT Un Mh CC WM Wi AF Ha Me Mm BS Qn Cg Ct MS MA Ca Da Ya ML Ar Mr RM AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
10 Clarkson  (ec) 50 .5432                 PS MD Mn ND BU BC BG Pn NO NM MT Un Mh CC WM Wi AF Ha Me Mm BS Qn Cg Ct MS MA Ca Da Ya ML Ar Mr RM AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
11 Penn State  (bt) 49 .5412                   MD Mn ND BU BC BG Pn NO NM MT Un Mh CC WM Wi AF Ha Me Mm BS Qn Cg Ct MS MA Ca Da Ya ML Ar Mr RM AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
12 Minn-Duluth  (nt) 47 .5404                     Mn ND BU BC BG Pn NO NM   Un Mh CC WM Wi AF Ha Me Mm BS Qn Cg Ct MS MA Ca Da Ya ML Ar Mr RM AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
13 Minnesota  (bt) 47 .5403                       ND BU BC BG Pn NO NM MT Un Mh CC WM Wi AF Ha Me Mm BS Qn Cg Ct MS MA Ca Da Ya ML Ar Mr RM AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
14 North Dakota  (nt) 46 .5350                         BU BC BG Pn NO NM MT Un Mh CC WM Wi AF Ha Me Mm BS Qn Cg Ct MS MA Ca Da Ya ML Ar Mr RM AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
15 Boston Univ  (he) 45 .5340                           BC BG Pn NO NM MT Un Mh CC WM Wi AF Ha Me Mm BS Qn Cg Ct MS MA Ca Da Ya ML Ar Mr RM AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
16 Boston Coll  (he) 42 .5298                             BG Pn NO NM   Un Mh CC WM   AF Ha Me Mm BS Qn Cg Ct MS MA Ca Da Ya ML Ar Mr RM AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
17 Bowling Green (wc) 42 .5261             Mi                 Pn NO   MT Un Mh CC WM Wi AF Ha Me   BS Qn Cg Ct MS MA Ca Da Ya ML Ar Mr RM AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
18 Princeton  (ec) 42 .5259                                 NO NM MT Un Mh CC WM Wi AF Ha Me Mm BS Qn Cg Ct MS MA Ca Da Ya ML Ar Mr RM AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
19 NE-Omaha  (nt) 41 .5253                                   NM MT Un Mh CC WM Wi AF Ha Me Mm BS Qn Cg Ct MS MA Ca Da Ya ML Ar Mr RM AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
20 Northern Mich (wc) 41 .5213                               BG     MT Un Mh CC WM Wi AF Ha Me Mm BS Qn Cg Ct MS MA Ca Da Ya ML Ar Mr RM AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
21 Michigan Tech (wc) 39 .5166                     MD       BC             CC WM Wi AF Ha Me Mm BS Qn Cg Ct MS MA Ca Da Ya ML Ar Mr RM AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
22 Union  (ec) 38 .5182                                       MT Mh CC WM Wi AF Ha Me Mm BS Qn Cg Ct MS   Ca Da Ya ML Ar Mr RM AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
23 Mercyhurst  (ah) 38 .5174                                       MT   CC WM Wi AF Ha Me Mm BS Qn Cg Ct MS MA Ca Da Ya ML Ar Mr RM AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
24 CO College  (nt) 36 .5149                                             WM Wi AF Ha Me Mm BS Qn Cg Ct MS MA Ca Da Ya ML Ar Mr RM AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
25 Western Mich  (nt) 35 .5113                                               Wi AF Ha Me Mm BS Qn Cg Ct MS MA Ca Da Ya ML Ar Mr RM AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
26 Wisconsin  (bt) 35 .5092                             BC                   AF Ha Me Mm BS Qn Cg Ct MS MA Ca Da Ya ML Ar Mr RM AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
27 Air Force  (ah) 33 .5092                                                   Ha Me Mm BS Qn Cg Ct MS MA Ca Da Ya ML Ar Mr RM AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
28 Harvard  (ec) 32 .5066                                                     Me Mm BS Qn Cg Ct MS MA Ca Da Ya ML Ar Mr RM AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
29 Maine  (he) 31 .5063                                                       Mm BS Qn Cg Ct MS MA Ca Da Ya ML Ar Mr RM AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
30 Miami  (nt) 31 .5061                               BG                         BS Qn Cg Ct MS MA Ca Da Ya ML Ar Mr RM AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
31 Bemidji State (wc) 29 .4985                                                           Qn Cg Ct MS MA Ca Da Ya ML Ar Mr RM AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
32 Quinnipiac  (ec) 28 .4981                                                             Cg Ct MS MA Ca Da Ya ML Ar Mr RM AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
33 Colgate  (ec) 27 .4942                                                               Ct MS MA Ca Da Ya ML Ar Mr RM AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
34 Connecticut  (he) 26 .4940                                                                 MS MA Ca Da Ya ML Ar Mr RM AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
35 Mich State  (bt) 25 .4926                                                                   MA Ca Da Ya ML Ar Mr RM AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
36 Mass-Amherst  (he) 25 .4923                                         Un                           Ca Da Ya ML Ar Mr RM AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
37 Canisius  (ah) 22 .4904                                                                         Ya ML Ar Mr RM AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
38 Dartmouth  (ec) 21 .4919                                                                       Ca Ya ML Ar Mr RM AI   RT   Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
39 Yale  (ec) 21 .4878                                                                           ML Ar Mr RM AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
40 Mass-Lowell  (he) 19 .4870                                                                             Ar   RM AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
41 Army  (ah) 18 .4847                                                                               Mr RM AI By RT   Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
42 Merrimack  (he) 18 .4794                                                                             ML     AI By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
43 Robert Morris (ah) 17 .4809                                                                                 Mr AI By   HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
44 American Intl (ah) 16 .4735                                                                                     By RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
45 Bentley  (ah) 16 .4722                                                                         Da             RT HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
46 RIT  (ah) 15 .4699                                                                                   RM     HC Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
47 Holy Cross  (ah) 15 .4697                                                                         Da     Ar           Vt SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
48 Vermont  (he) 12 .4658                                                                                             SH FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
49 Sacred Heart  (ah) 11 .4633                                                                                               FS AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
50 Ferris State  (wc) 10 .4629                                                                                                 AH NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
51 AL-Huntsville (wc) 9 .4611                                                                                                   NH AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
52 New Hampshire (he) 8 .4562                                                                                                     AS Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
53 Arizona State (in) 7 .4534                                                                                                       Ni Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
54 Niagara  (ah) 6 .4503                                                                                                         Bn LS Ak RP SL AA
55 Brown  (ec) 5 .4502                                                                                                           LS Ak RP SL AA
56 Lake Superior (wc) 4 .4484                                                                                                             Ak RP SL AA
57 AK-Fairbanks  (wc) 3 .4446                                                                                                               RP SL AA
58 RPI  (ec) 2 .4315                                                                                                                 SL AA
59 St Lawrence  (ec) 1 .4316                                                                                                                   AA
60 AK-Anchorage  (wc) 0 .4021                                                                                                                    

Explanation of the Table

The table above lists all of the Teams Under Consideration (TUCs) for the NCAA tournament. This includes all tournament-eligible Division 1 teams with a Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) of .500 or above. Each team has been compared to each other team on the basis of the NCAA selection criteria. Those criteria are:

RPI
The Ratings Percentage Index, described in detail on our RPI page.
TUC
Record vs other Teams Under Consideration. Head-to-head games are explicitly excluded from this criterion, which is judged on straight Winning Percentage (with ties as always counting as half a win and half a loss) in the relevant games.
COp
Record vs Common Opponents. As of the 2011-2012 season, this is now resolved using "averaged winning percentage", i.e., take the winning percentage against each opponent and average those numbers.
H2H
Head-to-head results. Each win in head-to-head competition carries the same weight as each of the other criteria.

A team gets one point towards the comparison for each of the first three criteria it wins, plus one point for each head-to-head victory. Whichever team has more points according to this method wins the criterion. In case of a tie, the team with the higher RPI wins the criterion.

In each team's row, in the "Comparisons Won" part of the grid, are listed the abbreviations of all the teams with which they win comparisons. Each of these cells is a link to a mini-table (which will appear in a pop-up window under most browser setups) detailing the results of the four criteria. The RPI row of the mini-table contains the overall record and RPI for each team, the TUC, and COp rows contain the record and winning percentage in the games relevant to each criterion, and the H2H row contains the head-to-head record of each team against the other.

The PWR column in the main table gives the total number of comparisons won by each team. The teams are ordered according the their PWR; if two or more teams are tied in the PWR, the tie is broken if possible according to the number of comparisons each wins against the other tied teams; if this fails to resolve the tie (which can be thought of a ro-sham-bo situation: Rock crushes Scissors, Scissors cut Paper, Paper covers Rock), the RPI is used to break the tie.

Breakdown of Criteria

The following table lists, for each Team Under Consideration, the two selection criteria which are more or less the same in each comparison: RPI and record vs TUCs. Each team's name in the table is a link to a rundown of the games contributing to these two criteria.

Note a team's record in the "vs TUCs" column is that against all TUCs; since head-to-head games are left out of this criterion, the record used in an actual comparison will be different if the two teams have played each other.

Team Comps Won RPI
Rk PWR Rk RPI
St Cloud 1 59 1 .5917
Notre Dame 2 57 2 .5864
Cornell 3 57 3 .5762
Ohio State 4 56 4 .5755
Denver U 5 56 5 .5746
MSU-Mankato 6 54 6 .5645
Providence 7 53 7 .5474
Michigan 8 51 8 .5453
Northeastern 9 51 9 .5449
Clarkson 10 50 10 .5432
Penn State 11 49 11 .5412
Minn-Duluth 12 47 12 .5404
Minnesota 13 47 13 .5403
North Dakota 14 46 14 .5350
Boston Univ 15 45 15 .5340
Boston Coll 16 42 16 .5298
Bowling Green 17 42 17 .5261
Princeton 18 42 18 .5259
NE-Omaha 19 41 19 .5253
Northern Mich 20 41 20 .5213
Michigan Tech 21 39 23 .5166
Union 22 38 21 .5182
Mercyhurst 23 38 22 .5174
CO College 24 36 24 .5149
Western Mich 25 35 25 .5113
Wisconsin 26 35 26 .5092
Air Force 27 33 27 .5092
Harvard 28 32 28 .5066
Maine 29 31 29 .5063
Miami 30 31 30 .5061
Bemidji State 31 29 31 .4985
Quinnipiac 32 28 32 .4981
Colgate 33 27 33 .4942
Connecticut 34 26 34 .4940
Mich State 35 25 35 .4926
Mass-Amherst 36 25 36 .4923
Canisius 37 22 38 .4904
Dartmouth 38 21 37 .4919
Yale 39 21 39 .4878
Mass-Lowell 40 19 40 .4870
Army 41 18 41 .4847
Merrimack 42 18 43 .4794
Robert Morris 43 17 42 .4809
American Intl 44 16 44 .4735
Bentley 45 16 45 .4722
RIT 46 15 46 .4699
Holy Cross 47 15 47 .4697
Vermont 48 12 48 .4658
Sacred Heart 49 11 49 .4633
Ferris State 50 10 50 .4629
AL-Huntsville 51 9 51 .4611
New Hampshire 52 8 52 .4562
Arizona State 53 7 53 .4534
Niagara 54 6 54 .4503
Brown 55 5 55 .4502
Lake Superior 56 4 56 .4484
AK-Fairbanks 57 3 57 .4446
RPI 58 2 59 .4315
St Lawrence 59 1 58 .4316
AK-Anchorage 60 0 60 .4021

See also

Last Modified: 2020 February 1

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