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Pairwise Comparisons and PWR for D1 College Hockey (2015-2016)

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

Pairwise Comparisons (including games of 2016 March 19)

Pairwise Comparisons
Rk Team PWR RPI Comparisons Won
1 Quinnipiac  (ec) 59 .6008 SC ND Pv BC DU Mi ML BU Ya Ha Nt NE MD Cr MT NO Mn SL Da RM PS Ck Mk RP Mm BG AF Un FS OS BS Vt HC NM RT Mh Mr NH Wi Ar Cg WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
2 St Cloud  (nt) 58 .5991 ND Pv BC DU Mi ML BU Ya Ha Nt NE MD Cr MT NO Mn SL Da RM PS Ck Mk RP Mm BG AF Un FS OS BS Vt HC NM RT Mh Mr NH Wi Ar Cg WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
3 North Dakota  (nt) 57 .5939   Pv BC DU Mi ML BU Ya Ha Nt NE MD Cr MT NO Mn SL Da RM PS Ck Mk RP Mm BG AF Un FS OS BS Vt HC NM RT Mh Mr NH Wi Ar Cg WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
4 Providence  (he) 56 .5819     BC DU Mi ML BU Ya Ha Nt NE MD Cr MT NO Mn SL Da RM PS Ck Mk RP Mm BG AF Un FS OS BS Vt HC NM RT Mh Mr NH Wi Ar Cg WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
5 Boston Coll  (he) 55 .5785       DU Mi ML BU Ya Ha Nt NE MD Cr MT NO Mn SL Da RM PS Ck Mk RP Mm BG AF Un FS OS BS Vt HC NM RT Mh Mr NH Wi Ar Cg WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
6 Denver U  (nt) 53 .5761         Mi ML   Ya Ha Nt NE MD Cr MT NO Mn SL Da RM PS Ck Mk RP Mm BG AF Un FS OS BS Vt HC NM RT Mh Mr NH Wi Ar Cg WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
7 Michigan  (bt) 53 .5699           ML BU Ya Ha Nt NE MD Cr MT NO Mn SL Da RM PS Ck Mk RP Mm BG AF Un FS OS BS Vt HC NM RT Mh Mr NH Wi Ar Cg WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
8 Mass-Lowell  (he) 52 .5587             BU Ya Ha Nt NE MD Cr MT NO Mn SL Da RM PS Ck Mk RP Mm BG AF Un FS OS BS Vt HC NM RT Mh Mr NH Wi Ar Cg WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
9 Boston Univ  (he) 52 .5584         DU     Ya Ha Nt NE MD Cr MT NO Mn SL Da RM PS Ck Mk RP Mm BG AF Un FS OS BS Vt HC NM RT Mh Mr NH Wi Ar Cg WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
10 Yale  (ec) 50 .5515                 Ha Nt NE MD Cr MT NO Mn SL Da RM PS Ck Mk RP Mm BG AF Un FS OS BS Vt HC NM RT Mh Mr NH Wi Ar Cg WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
11 Harvard  (ec) 49 .5540                   Nt NE MD Cr MT NO Mn SL Da RM PS Ck Mk RP Mm BG AF Un FS OS BS Vt HC NM RT Mh Mr NH Wi Ar Cg WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
12 Notre Dame  (he) 48 .5513                     NE MD Cr MT NO Mn SL Da RM PS Ck Mk RP Mm BG AF Un FS OS BS Vt HC NM RT Mh Mr NH Wi Ar Cg WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
13 NorthEastern  (he) 47 .5487                       MD Cr MT NO Mn SL Da RM PS Ck Mk RP Mm BG AF Un FS OS BS Vt HC NM RT Mh Mr NH Wi Ar Cg WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
14 Minn-Duluth  (nt) 46 .5440                         Cr MT NO Mn SL Da RM PS Ck Mk RP Mm BG AF Un FS OS BS Vt HC NM RT Mh Mr NH Wi Ar Cg WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
15 Cornell  (ec) 45 .5366                           MT NO Mn SL Da RM PS Ck Mk RP Mm BG AF Un FS OS BS Vt HC NM RT Mh Mr NH Wi Ar Cg WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
16 Michigan Tech (wc) 44 .5358                             NO Mn SL Da RM PS Ck Mk RP Mm BG AF Un FS OS BS Vt HC NM RT Mh Mr NH Wi Ar Cg WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
17 NE-Omaha  (nt) 42 .5268                                 SL Da RM PS Ck Mk RP Mm BG AF Un FS OS BS Vt HC NM RT Mh Mr NH Wi Ar Cg WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
18 Minnesota  (bt) 41 .5296                               NO SL Da RM PS Ck   RP Mm BG AF Un FS OS   Vt HC NM RT Mh Mr NH Wi Ar Cg WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
19 St Lawrence  (ec) 40 .5244                                   Da   PS Ck Mk RP Mm BG AF Un FS OS BS Vt HC NM RT Mh Mr NH Wi Ar Cg WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
20 Dartmouth  (ec) 39 .5234                                     RM PS Ck Mk RP Mm BG AF Un FS OS BS   HC NM RT Mh Mr NH Wi Ar Cg WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
21 Robert Morris (ah) 39 .5264                                   SL   PS Ck Mk RP Mm BG AF   FS OS BS Vt HC NM RT Mh Mr NH Wi Ar Cg WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
22 Penn State  (bt) 38 .5233                                         Ck Mk RP Mm BG AF Un FS OS BS Vt HC NM RT Mh Mr NH Wi Ar Cg WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
23 Clarkson  (ec) 37 .5210                                           Mk RP Mm BG AF Un FS OS BS Vt HC NM RT Mh Mr NH Wi Ar Cg WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
24 MSU-Mankato  (wc) 36 .5196                                 Mn             Mm BG AF Un FS OS BS Vt HC NM RT Mh Mr NH Wi Ar Cg WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
25 RPI  (ec) 35 .5206                                             Mk Mm BG AF Un FS OS BS Vt HC NM RT Mh Mr NH Wi Ar Cg WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA   Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
26 Miami  (nt) 34 .5153                                                 BG AF Un FS OS BS Vt HC NM RT Mh Mr NH Wi Ar Cg WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
27 Bowling Green (wc) 33 .5135                                                   AF Un FS OS BS Vt HC NM RT Mh Mr NH Wi Ar Cg WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
28 Air Force  (ah) 32 .5097                                                     Un FS OS BS Vt HC NM RT Mh Mr NH Wi Ar Cg WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
29 Union  (ec) 31 .5025                                       RM                 OS BS Vt HC NM RT Mh Mr NH Wi Ar Cg WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
30 Ferris State  (wc) 30 .5081                                                       Un OS BS Vt HC NM RT Mh Mr NH Wi Ar Cg   Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
31 Ohio State  (bt) 29 .4988                                                           BS Vt HC NM RT Mh Mr NH Wi Ar Cg WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
32 Bemidji State (wc) 29 .4965                                 Mn                           Vt HC NM RT Mh Mr NH Wi Ar Cg WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
33 Vermont  (he) 27 .4927                                     Da                           NM RT Mh Mr NH Wi Ar Cg WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
34 Holy Cross  (ah) 26 .4944                                                               Vt NM RT Mh Mr NH Wi   Cg WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
35 Northern Mich (wc) 25 .4909                                                                   RT Mh Mr NH Wi Ar Cg WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
36 RIT  (ah) 23 .4893                                                                     Mh Mr NH Wi Ar   WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
37 Mercyhurst  (ah) 23 .4842                                                                       Mr NH Wi Ar Cg WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
38 Merrimack  (he) 22 .4802                                                                         NH Wi Ar Cg WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
39 New Hampshire (he) 21 .4742                                                                           Wi Ar Cg WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
40 Wisconsin  (bt) 20 .4700                                                                             Ar Cg WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
41 Army  (ah) 19 .4696                                                                 HC             Cg WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn   AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
42 Colgate  (ec) 19 .4692                                                                     RT           WM Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
43 Western Mich  (nt) 18 .4656                                                         FS                         Ct LS By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
44 Connecticut  (he) 15 .4647                                                                                     LS By MS   Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
45 Lake Superior (wc) 15 .4645                                                                                       By MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
46 Bentley  (ah) 14 .4623                                                                                         MS SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
47 Mich State  (bt) 13 .4618                                                                                           SH Bn MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
48 Sacred Heart  (ah) 12 .4547                                                                                     Ct       Bn   AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
49 Brown  (ec) 11 .4537                                                                                               MA AA Me Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
50 Mass-Amherst  (he) 11 .4531                                                                               Ar             SH   AA   Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
51 AK-Anchorage  (wc) 9 .4486                                               RP                                                   Me   Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
52 Maine  (he) 9 .4458                                                                                                 MA   Ak Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
53 AK-Fairbanks  (wc) 8 .4455                                                                                                   AA   Ca CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
54 Canisius  (ah) 6 .4448                                                                                                         CC AH Pn Ni AS AI
55 CO College  (nt) 5 .4443                                                                                                           AH Pn Ni AS AI
56 AL-Huntsville (wc) 4 .4324                                                                                                             Pn Ni AS AI
57 Princeton  (ec) 3 .4322                                                                                                               Ni AS AI
58 Niagara  (ah) 2 .4145                                                                                                                 AS AI
59 Arizona State (in) 1 .4026                                                                                                                   AI
60 American Intl (ah) 0 .4016                                                                                                                    

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
Quinnipiac 1 59 1 .6008
St Cloud 2 58 2 .5991
North Dakota 3 57 3 .5939
Providence 4 56 4 .5819
Boston Coll 5 55 5 .5785
Denver U 6 53 6 .5761
Michigan 7 53 7 .5699
Mass-Lowell 8 52 8 .5587
Boston Univ 9 52 9 .5584
Yale 10 50 11 .5515
Harvard 11 49 10 .5540
Notre Dame 12 48 12 .5513
Northeastern 13 47 13 .5487
Minn-Duluth 14 46 14 .5440
Cornell 15 45 15 .5366
Michigan Tech 16 44 16 .5358
NE-Omaha 17 42 18 .5268
Minnesota 18 41 17 .5296
St Lawrence 19 40 20 .5244
Dartmouth 20 39 21 .5234
Robert Morris 21 39 19 .5264
Penn State 22 38 22 .5233
Clarkson 23 37 23 .5210
MSU-Mankato 24 36 25 .5196
RPI 25 35 24 .5206
Miami 26 34 26 .5153
Bowling Green 27 33 27 .5135
Air Force 28 32 28 .5097
Union 29 31 30 .5025
Ferris State 30 30 29 .5081
Ohio State 31 29 31 .4988
Bemidji State 32 29 32 .4965
Vermont 33 27 34 .4927
Holy Cross 34 26 33 .4944
Northern Mich 35 25 35 .4909
RIT 36 23 36 .4893
Mercyhurst 37 23 37 .4842
Merrimack 38 22 38 .4802
New Hampshire 39 21 39 .4742
Wisconsin 40 20 40 .4700
Army 41 19 41 .4696
Colgate 42 19 42 .4692
Western Mich 43 18 43 .4656
Connecticut 44 15 44 .4647
Lake Superior 45 15 45 .4645
Bentley 46 14 46 .4623
Mich State 47 13 47 .4618
Sacred Heart 48 12 48 .4547
Brown 49 11 49 .4537
Mass-Amherst 50 11 50 .4531
AK-Anchorage 51 9 51 .4486
Maine 52 9 52 .4458
AK-Fairbanks 53 8 53 .4455
Canisius 54 6 54 .4448
CO College 55 5 55 .4443
AL-Huntsville 56 4 56 .4324
Princeton 57 3 57 .4322
Niagara 58 2 58 .4145
Arizona State 59 1 59 .4026
American Intl 60 0 60 .4016

See also

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