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[Dpperk29]

Quick Question,

at the clarkson game saturday night it was announced that clarkson has the best all time winning percentage in college hockey history. is this true? who is second? where is cornell?

-Devin

and please don't mention that we have no national championships... I know

[French Rage]

http://www.tbrw.info/reports/rptMajorTeamsPct/rptMajorTeamsPct.html

#    
   Team    GP    W    L    T    Pct    GF    GA
1    
   Clarkson    1927    1200    629    98    .648    9324    6588
2    
   Minnesota    2458    1490    832    136    .634    10349    7799
3    
   Boston College    2061    1255    710    96    .632    9577    7259
4    
   Boston University    2104    1265    730    109    .627    9865    7305
5    
   Maine    1036    607    360    69    .619    4513    3476
6    
   Harvard    2161    1283    773    105    .618    9742    6886
7    
   Wisconsin    1659    965    600    94    .610    7245    5642
8    
   Cornell    1508    872    554    82    .605    6335    5028
9    
   Michigan    2379    1359    902    118    .596    10431    8370
10    
   North Dakota    2071    1167    807    97    .587    9057    7616

[RichH]

[quote Dpperk29]Quick Question,

at the clarkson game saturday night it was announced that clarkson has the best all time winning percentage in college hockey history. is this true? who is second? where is cornell?

-Devin

and please don't mention that we have no national championships... I know[/quote]

Absolutely true, and they have a significant lead on #2 Minnesota.  Cornell is at #8.

Can't guarantee that it's completely accurate (nothing against Greg here, this is just a ridiculous project to get absolutely correct), and I don't know when Greg updated it last, but here's the stats he's compiled:

http://www.tbrw.info/reports/rptMajorTeamsPct/rptMajorTeamsPct.html

Lot's of good history lists along the same vein here:
http://www.tbrw.info/ncaaHistory/ncaaHistoryIndex.html

For example, Cornell possesses 4 of the top 10 best all-time single-season records.

[Trotsky]

[quote RichH]Can't guarantee that it's completely accurate (nothing against Greg here, this is just a ridiculous project to get absolutely correct), and I don't know when Greg updated it last, but here's the stats he's compiled:

http://www.tbrw.info/reports/rptMajorTeamsPct/rptMajorTeamsPct.html

Lot's of good history lists along the same vein here:
http://www.tbrw.info/ncaaHistory/ncaaHistoryIndex.html

For example, Cornell possesses 4 of the top 10 best all-time single-season records.[/quote]

Thanks, Rich.  It's updated through the 2006 NCAA QF.  Don't ask me why I didn't wait to include the F4 results.  It will be updated shortly.

Truth of the matter is that nobody can guarantee complete accuracy, because the schools, the conferences, and the NCAA don't agree on records.  Not only are there issues of which games can be counted (i.e., games against non-D1 teams prior to the formalization of the rule in the 90's are still up for grabs), but there are even cases in which x counts a game against y but y doesn't count it, or even denies it happened!

My precedence for accepting data is from "in" to "out":

1. Hockey program records
2. AD records.
3. Conference records.
4. NCAA records.
5. Unofficial sources, following the same precedence rule.

I imagine every team has at least a few "contested" results.