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2012-2013 KRACH Ratings

KRACH is endorsed by College Hockey News as the best system to objectively rank teams. It stands for "Ken's Ratings for American College Hockey", because it was a statistician named Ken Butler who first implemented the methodology for college hockey.

Note: The ratings are immediately updated as results come in. For more, see below the chart or view the FAQ.

Rk	Team	KRACH		Record				Sched Strength
		Rating	RRWP	Rk	W-L-T	Pct	Ratio	Rk	SOS
1	Minnesota	339.3	.7579	2	26-8-5	.7308	2.714	18	125.0
2	Quinnipiac	339.1	.7578	1	27-7-5	.7564	3.105	39	109.2
3	Mass.-Lowell	273.9	.7184	3	26-10-2	.7105	2.455	37	111.6
4	Notre Dame	239.4	.6920	5t	25-12-3	.6625	1.963	22	122.0
5	Minnesota State	228.1	.6822	8	24-13-3	.6375	1.759	10	129.7
6	Miami	226.5	.6807	5t	24-11-5	.6625	1.963	31	115.4
7	Boston College	217.4	.6723	7	22-11-4	.6486	1.846	27	117.7
8	North Dakota	215.4	.6704	11	21-12-7	.6125	1.581	5	136.3
9	Denver	213.5	.6685	15	20-13-5	.5921	1.452	2	147.1
10	Wisconsin	209.0	.6641	9	22-12-7	.6220	1.645	14	127.0
11	New Hampshire	199.0	.6537	12	19-11-7	.6081	1.552	13	128.2
12	St. Cloud State	195.5	.6500	14	23-15-1	.6026	1.516	12	128.9
13	Yale	177.6	.6294	16	18-12-3	.5909	1.444	21	122.9
14	Union	172.7	.6233	10	21-12-5	.6184	1.621	40	106.6
15	Western Michigan	171.8	.6221	13	19-11-8	.6053	1.533	36	112.0
16	Boston University	162.2	.6095	20	21-16-2	.5641	1.294	16	125.3
17	Providence	160.2	.6068	23	17-14-7	.5395	1.171	4	136.8
18	Rensselaer	150.6	.5931	21t	18-14-5	.5541	1.242	24	121.2
19	Colorado College	145.6	.5854	32	18-19-5	.4881	.953	1	152.7
20	Brown	126.8	.5542	24	16-14-6	.5278	1.118	34	113.4
21	Niagara	126.4	.5535	4	23-9-5	.6892	2.217	53	57.0
22	Nebraska-Omaha	123.8	.5489	29	19-18-2	.5128	1.053	28	117.6
23	Cornell	122.3	.5460	35	15-16-3	.4853	.943	9	129.7
24	Dartmouth	121.1	.5438	27	15-14-5	.5147	1.061	33	114.2
25	Ohio State	120.2	.5421	33t	16-17-7	.4875	.951	15	126.4
26	Alaska-Fairbanks	117.1	.5360	28	17-16-4	.5135	1.056	38	110.9
27	Ferris State	116.9	.5357	31	16-16-5	.5000	1.000	29	116.9
28	Michigan	114.3	.5307	33t	18-19-3	.4875	.951	25	120.2
29	St. Lawrence	110.6	.5230	25	18-16-4	.5263	1.111	45	99.5
30	Northern Michigan	104.5	.5100	40	15-19-4	.4474	.810	11	129.0
31	Merrimack	102.0	.5045	37	15-17-6	.4737	.900	35	113.3
32	Bowling Green	92.3	.4817	44	15-21-5	.4268	.745	19	124.0
33	Minnesota-Duluth	87.8	.4704	42	14-19-5	.4342	.767	32	114.4
34	Lake Superior	86.7	.4675	39	17-21-1	.4487	.814	42	106.6
35	Michigan Tech	85.3	.4637	45	13-20-4	.4054	.682	17	125.1
36	Colgate	84.6	.4618	41	14-18-4	.4444	.800	43	105.7
37	Vermont	83.4	.4588	49	11-19-6	.3889	.636	8	131.1
38	Robert Morris	83.3	.4583	18	20-14-4	.5789	1.375	49	60.6
39	Massachusetts	80.3	.4501	47	12-19-3	.3971	.659	23	121.9
40	Maine	80.2	.4499	48	11-19-8	.3947	.652	20	123.0
41	Michigan State	77.6	.4424	51	14-25-3	.3690	.585	6	132.6
42	Holy Cross	77.0	.4406	17	20-14-3	.5811	1.387	55	55.5
43	Connecticut	74.5	.4332	19	19-14-4	.5676	1.312	54	56.7
44	Air Force	73.4	.4301	21t	17-13-7	.5541	1.242	52	59.1
45	Princeton	72.0	.4257	46	10-16-5	.4032	.676	41	106.6
46	Harvard	66.5	.4082	52	10-19-3	.3594	.561	26	118.6
47	Mercyhurst	66.0	.4064	26	19-17-5	.5244	1.103	51	59.8
48	Canisius	65.4	.4046	30	19-18-5	.5119	1.049	47	62.4
49	Clarkson	62.1	.3932	53	9-20-7	.3472	.532	30	116.7
50	Penn State	55.9	.3708	36	11-12-0	.4783	.917	48	61.0
51	RIT	51.6	.3540	38	15-18-5	.4605	.854	50	60.5
52	Bemidji State	50.7	.3501	56	6-22-8	.2778	.385	7	131.7
53	Northeastern	49.8	.3467	54	9-21-4	.3235	.478	44	104.1
54	Alaska-Anchorage	38.5	.2959	57	4-25-7	.2083	.263	3	146.4
55	American Int'l	36.4	.2852	43	12-17-6	.4286	.750	58	48.5
56	Bentley	30.2	.2520	50	12-20-3	.3857	.628	59	48.1
57	Army	19.3	.1834	55	7-22-5	.2794	.388	57	49.9
58	Sacred Heart	6.8	.0774	58	2-30-4	.1111	.125	56	54.5
59	Alabama-Huntsville	6.3	.0719	59	1-20-1	.0682	.073	46	85.9

RRWP	Round Robin Winning Percentage. A team's theoretical winning percentage would be if you played every other team, one time each.
Ratio	The Ratio of wins to losses (as opposed to Win %, which is wins divided by games).
SOS	Strength of Schedule

Note: For the purposes of NCAA eligibility (and therefore KRACH), a team's record is based only on games against other Division I hockey schools which are eligible for the NCAA Tournament.

KRACH Explained

As explained above, KRACH is the implementation of a sophisticated mathematical model known as the Bradley-Terry rating system, first applied to college hockey by a statistician named Ken Butler. While the model is sophisticated, and needs a computer to calculate, its essential meaning is actually quite simple.

The key to understanding KRACH is understanding that it's calculated recursively, so that the end result is self-evident by the results. In other words, if you took one team's schedule to date, and played a theoretical "game" for each game already actually played, using the KRACH ratings themselves in order to predict the winner, then the end result would be a theoretical won-loss percentage that matches the team's actual won-loss percentage. Pretty cool.

It is not possible to do any better than that with a completely objective method. Any other method introduces arbitrary-ness and/or subjectivity.

(See the FAQ for a more complete explanation.)

More detailed explanations of the KRACH ratings can be found under the following links