Polls 2015-16

[Jim Hyla]

They start:

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Preseason USCHO.com Division I Women's Poll
September 21, 2015
Team     (First) Record Points Last Poll
1 Minnesota (15) 34- 3-4 150 1
2 Boston College 34- 3-2 128 3
3 Wisconsin 29- 7-4 124 4
[b][u]4 Harvard        27- 6-3 101 2
5 Clarkson 24-11-3 84 7[/u][/b]
6 North Dakota 22-12-3 64 8
[b][u]7 Quinnipiac 26- 9-3 56 6[/u][/b]
8 Boston University 25- 9-3 49 5
9 Bemidji State 21-17-1 25 10
[b][u]10 Cornell        19-11-3 18 9[/u][/b]
Team (First Place) Record Pts Last Year Others receiving votes: Northeastern 11,
Mercyhurst 6, Minnesota-Duluth 5, [b][u]St. Lawrence 4[/u][/b].

Read more: http://www.uscho.com/rankings/d-i-womens-poll/#ixzz3mT594ORr



[Jim Hyla]

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Preseason USCHO.com Division I Men's Poll
September 28, 2015
Team (First) Record Points Last Poll
1 Boston College (19) 21-14-3 907 13
2 Minnesota-Duluth(12) 21-16-3 836 6
3 Boston University( 6) 28- 8-5 820 2
4 North Dakota ( 1) 29-10-3 766 3
5 Denver        24-14-2 739 5
6 Minnesota State ( 1) 29- 8-3 699 7
7 Providence ( 6) 26-13-2 642 1
[b][u]8 Harvard        ( 1) 21-13-3 592 11[/u][/b]
9 Minnesota ( 1) 23-13-3 530 12
10 Nebraska-Omaha 20-13-6 505 4
11 Miami        ( 1) 25-14-1 461 8
[b][u]12 Yale        18-10-5 432 15[/u][/b]
13 Michigan 22-15-0 417 20
14 Mass-Lowell     ( 2) 21-12-6 398 17
15 Michigan Tech 29-10-2 390 9
16 Bowling Green 23-11-5 316 18
17 St. Cloud State 20-19-1 236 10
[b][u]18 Quinnipiac 23-12-4 228 14
19 St. Lawrence 20-14-3 156 NR
20 Colgate        22-12-4 129 19[/u][/b]
Others receiving votes: Robert Morris 63, Notre Dame 45, Rochester Institute of Technology 39,
Michigan State 37, Northeastern 31, Vermont 23, Penn State 19, New Hampshire 18,
Ferris State 11, Wisconsin 5, Bemidji State 4, [b][u]Union 3[/u][/b], Alaska 1, [b][u]Brown 1, Dartmouth 1.[/u][/b]

Read more: http://www.uscho.com/rankings/d-i-mens-poll/#ixzz3n7rPyKe8



And an article on the worth, or lack thereof, of the preseason polls.

[Swampy]

The article is not very convincing because its only indicator of predictive validity is whether or not teams with a #1 poll ranking won the NC. Winning the NC means beating increasingly better teams. If we could assign teams some sort of power score with absolute certainty, and the difference in power scores maps exactly to the probability of one team beating another, then probabilities approach 50/50 as teams progress towards a NC. The probability of any particular team winning several games in a row to capture the NC would be less than 50%, even if it has the highest power scores and therefore the highest probability of winning the NC.

A much better proof or disproof of the worth of preseason poles would be a something like a correlation between pole rankings and subsequent winning percentage.

Also injuries play a major role in all teams' fortunes. So the teams in preseason are often not the ones playing April, even if they have the same names.

[Jim Hyla]

So I'll be late in posting this year, but....

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Preseason USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Men's College Hockey Poll
October 5, 2015
Team             Points  (First) Last Poll Record
1 Boston College        469 (18)   14 21-14-3 1
2 Boston University 436 (5) 2 28- 8-5
3 U of Minnesota Duluth 422 (7) 7 21-16-3
4 U of North Dakota 373 3 29-10-3
[b][u]5 Harvard University 348 11 21-13-3[/u][/b]
6 University of Denver 318 5 24-14-2
7 Providence College 262 (3) 1 26-13-2
8 U of Minnesota        242 (1) 10 23-13-3
9 Minnesota State U 234 6 29- 8-3
10 Miami University 198 8 25-14-1
11 U of Nebraska Omaha 160 4 20-13-6
[b][u]12 Yale University        144 15 18-10-5[/u][/b]
13 University of Michigan 142 . 22-15-0
14 UMass Lowell        116 . 21-12-6
15 Michigan Tech U   50 9 29-10-2
Others receiving votes: Bowling Green State University 39, [b][u]Quinnipiac University 36,[/u][/b]
St. Cloud State University 35, [b][u]St. Lawrence University 23[/u][/b], University of Notre Dame 15,
[b][u]Colgate University 12[/u][/b], Robert Morris University 5, Northeastern University 1.

USCHO.com Division I Women's Poll
October 05, 2015
Team     (First) Record Points Last Poll
1 Minnesota (15) 2- 0-0 150 1
2 Boston College 2- 0-0 128 2
3 Wisconsin 2- 0-0 123 3
[b][u]4 Harvard        0- 0-0 99 4
5 Clarkson 2- 0-0 97 5[/u][/b]
6 North Dakota 2- 0-0 64 6
7 Boston University 2- 0-0 57 8
[b][u]8 Quinnipiac 1- 0-1 45 7[/u][/b]
9 Bemidji State 3- 0-1 28 9
[b][u]10 Cornell        0- 0-0 15 10[/u][/b]
Others receiving votes: Northeastern 12, Mercyhurst 5, Minnesota-Duluth 2.

Preseason USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Women's College Hockey Poll
September 29, 2015
Team             Points  (First) Last Poll  Record
1 University of Minnesota 190 (19) 1 34- 3-4
2 Boston College        162 4 34- 3-2
3 University of Wisconsin 155 3 29- 7-4
[b][u]4 Harvard University 134 2 27- 6-3
5 Clarkson University 111 7 24-11-3[/u][/b]
6 U of North Dakota 80 8 22-12-3
[b][u]7 Quinnipiac University 78 6 27-10-3[/u][/b]
8 Boston University 64 5 25- 9-3
9 Northeastern University 23 NR 14-17-5
T9 Bemidji State University 23 10 21-17-1 1
Others receiving votes: [b][u]Cornell University 14[/u][/b], Mercyhurst University 5,
University of Minnesota-Duluth 3, Syracuse University 2, [b][u]St. Lawrence University 1[/u][/b].

USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Women's College Hockey Poll
October 6, 2015
Team             Points  (First) Last Poll Record
1 University of Minnesota 190 (19) 1 2-0-0
2 Boston College        166 2 2-0-0
3 University of Wisconsin 152 3 2-0-0
[b][u]4 Harvard University 131 4 0-0-0
5 Clarkson University 116 5 2-0-0[/u][/b]
6 U of North Dakota 81 6 2-0-0
[b][u]7 Quinnipiac University 66 7 1-0-1[/u][/b]
8 Boston University 65 8 2-0-0
9 Bemidji State U   37 T9 3-0-1
10 Northeastern University 25 T9 1-0-1
Others receiving votes: Mercyhurst University 7, [b][u]Cornell University 5,[/u][/b]
University of Minnesota Duluth 2, St. Cloud State University 1, Syracuse University 1.








[Jim Hyla]

Wholly crap, all ECAC mens teams, except Dartmouth, got a vote.

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USCHO.com Division I Men's Poll
October 12, 2015
Team      (First) Record Points Last Poll
1 North Dakota (18) 1- 0-1 922 4
2 Providence (13) 1- 0-1 870 7
3 Nebraska-Omaha ( 8) 2- 0-0 842 10
4 Boston College ( 7) 1- 1-0 832 1
5 Denver        1- 1-0 652 5
6 Boston University 0- 1-0 647 3
7 Minnesota-Duluth 0- 1-0 645 2
[b][u]8 Harvard        ( 2) 0- 0-0 629 8[/u][/b]
9 Mass-Lowell ( 2) 1- 0-0 555 14
10 Bowling Green 2- 0-0 521 16
11 Michigan 0- 0-0 415 13
12 St. Cloud State 2- 0-0 412 17
[b][u]13 Yale        0- 0-0 377 12[/u][/b]
14 Minnesota State 0- 2-0 316 6
15 Minnesota 0- 1-0 304 9
16 Michigan Tech 0- 0-0 288 15
[b][u]17 Quinnipiac 2- 0-0 284 18[/u][/b]
18 Miami        0- 1-1 234 11
[b][u]19 St. Lawrence 2- 0-0 211 19[/u][/b]
20 Vermont        1- 0-0 128 NR
Others receiving votes: Michigan State 61, Bemidji State 60, [b][u]Union 54[/u][/b], Northeastern 40,
Notre Dame 40, [b][u]Clarkson 24[/u][/b], Penn State 24, [b][u]Princeton 19[/u][/b], New Hampshire 18,
Robert Morris 17, [b][u]Rensselaer 15, Colgate 10[/u][/b], Mercyhurst 7, Northern Michigan 6,
[b][u]Cornell 5[/u][/b], Maine 5, Massachusetts 5, Ferris State 3, Wisconsin 2, [b][u]Brown 1.[/u][/b]


USCHO.com Division I Women's Poll
October 12, 2015
Team      (First) Record Points Last Poll
1 Minnesota (15) 4- 0-0 150 1
2 Boston College 3- 0-0 128 2
2 Wisconsin 4- 0-0 128 3
[b][u]4 Clarkson 5- 0-0 99 5
5 Harvard        0- 0-0 89 4[/u][/b]
6 North Dakota 4- 0-0 74 6
[b][u]7 Quinnipiac 3- 0-1 55 8[/u][/b]
8 Bemidji State 5- 0-1 50 9
9 Boston University 3- 1-0 23 7
[b][u]10 Cornell        0- 0-0 20 10[/u][/b]
Others receiving votes: Mercyhurst 6, Northeastern 2, Lindenwood 1.

Read more: http://www.uscho.com/rankings/d-i-womens-poll/#ixzz3oRaUbmxv



[Trotsky]

Our 35th in USCHO is our first appearance in either poll since Nov 10 2014.  Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.

[ugarte]

Wholly crap, all ECAC mens teams, except Dartmouth, got a vote.

I guess someone leaked a VERY convincing Cornell practice tape.

[scoop85]

Wholly crap, all ECAC mens teams, except Dartmouth, got a vote.

I guess someone leaked a VERY convincing Cornell practice tape.

But Princeton's tape must have been more convincing ::nut::

[ursusminor]

Wholly crap, all ECAC mens teams, except Dartmouth, got a vote.

I guess someone leaked a VERY convincing Cornell practice tape.

But Princeton's tape must have been more convincing ::nut::

https://twitter.com/without_a_peer/status/653618641896898560

[Trotsky]

LOL.  I want to believe this is what happened.

[Jim Hyla]

USA Hockey is further behind than I am, but here they are:
 
(These are from the USA Hockey site, which is not as nicely put together as when USCHO posts the USA Poll. Oh well.)

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Men's Poll
(2015-16 Season, Week Two)

       School               First in parentheses       Last Week's Rank
1. University of North Dakota,     477 (16) 4
2. Providence College,             422 (7) 7
3. Boston College,                 409 (5) 1
4. University of Nebraska Omaha,   364 (1) 11
[b][u]5. Harvard University,             323 (3) 5[/u][/b]
6. Boston University,              317        2
7. University of Minnesota Duluth, 302 (1) 3
8. University of Denver,           244        6
9. UMass Lowell,                   201, (1) 14
10. Bowling Green State University, 174        -
11. University of Michigan,         152        13
12. St. Cloud State University,     118        -
13. University of Minnesota,        117        8
[b][u]14. Yale University,                 93        12[/u][/b]
15. Minnesota State University,      92        9

Others Receiving Votes: [b][u]Quinnipiac University, 67[/u][/b]; Miami University, 59;
[b][u]St. Lawrence University, 49[/u][/b]; Michigan Tech University, 32; University of Vermont, 29;
University of Notre Dame, 7; [b][u]Union College, 7[/u][/b]; Michigan State University, 5;
Northeastern University, 4; Penn State University, 4; Robert Morris University, 2;
Northern Michigan University, 1.  


Women's Poll
(2015-16 Season, Week Three)



      School  First votes in parentheses  Last Week's Rank

1. University of Minnesota,(19) 190        1
2. University of Wisconsin,     161        3
3. Boston College,              157 2
[b][u]4. Harvard University,          125 4
5. Clarkson University,         124 5[/u][/b]
6. University of North Dakota,   85 6
[b][u]7. Quinnipiac University,        76 7[/u][/b]
8. Bemidji State University,     60 9
9. Boston University,            34 8
[b][u]10. Cornell University,           16 —[/u][/b]

Others Receiving Votes: Mercyhurst University, 12; Northeastern University, 4; University of Minnesota Duluth, 1.




[Jim Hyla]

9/12 ISN'T BAD.

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USCHO.com Division I Men's Poll
October 19, 2015
Team (     First) Record Points Last Poll
1 North Dakota (16) 2- 0-2 931 1
2 Nebraska-Omaha (15) 4- 0-0 927 3
3 Providence (12) 2- 0-1 902 2
4 Boston College ( 4) 2- 1-0 829 4
5 Minnesota-Duluth( 1) 2- 1-0 730 7
6 Denver        3- 1-0 726 5
7 Mass-Lowell ( 1) 3- 0-0 665 9
8 Boston University 1- 1-0 631 6
[b][u]9 Harvard        0- 0-0 580 8[/u][/b]
9 St. Cloud State ( 1) 4- 0-0 580 12
11 Michigan 2- 0-0 525 11
12 Bowling Green 3- 1-1 419 10
[b][u]13 Yale        0- 0-0 387 13
14 Quinnipiac 3- 0-0 352 17[/u][/b]
15 Miami        2- 1-1 312 18
16 Michigan Tech 1- 1-0 205 16
[b][u]17 St. Lawrence 3- 1-0 180 19
18 Union        2- 0-2 145 NR[/u][/b]
19 Merrimack 2- 0-0 70 NR
19 Minnesota 0- 3-0 70 15
Others receiving votes: Bemidji State 59, Minnesota State 54, Massachusetts 39,
[b][u]Clarkson 29[/u][/b], Western Michigan 27, Notre Dame 25, Penn State 24, Robert Morris 24,
Vermont 19, [b][u]Dartmouth 18[/u][/b], Michigan State 7, Bentley 5, [b][u]Colgate 3, Cornell 1.[/u][/b]

USCHO.com Division I Women's Poll
October 19, 2015
Team   (First) Record Points Last Poll
1 Minnesota (15) 6- 0-0 150 1
2 Boston College 6- 0-0 130 2
3 Wisconsin 6- 0-0 125 2
[b][u]4 Clarkson 7- 0-0 103 4
5 Harvard        0- 0-0 87 5[/u][/b]
6 Bemidji State 6- 0-2 71 8
7 North Dakota 4- 1-1 55 6
[b][u]8 Quinnipiac 3- 0-1 43 7
9 Cornell        0- 0-0 25 10[/u][/b]
10 Northeastern 4- 1-1 19 NR
Others receiving votes: Boston University 16, Penn State 1.

Read more: http://www.uscho.com/rankings/d-i-womens-poll/#ixzz3p3H7q6CP



[Dafatone]

We got a vote!!!

[ithacat]

We got a vote!!!

Must have been all that offense in the R/W game.

[Jim Hyla]

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USA Men's Poll
(2015-16 Season, Week Three)

First-place votes in parentheses


                            School      Last Week's Rank
1. University of Nebraska Omaha, 474 (15) 4
2. University of North Dakota,   464 (8) 1
3. Providence College,           441 (9) 2
4. Boston College,               376 3
5. University of Minnesota Duluth328 7
6. University of Denver,         319 8
7. Boston University,            274 6
8. Univ of Massachusetts Lowell, 273 (1) 9
[b][u]9. Harvard University,           273 5[/u][/b]
10. St. Cloud State University,   243 (1) 12
11. University of Michigan,       177 11
12. Bowling Green State University,91 10
[b][u]13. Quinnipiac University,         87 —[/u][/b]
14. Miami University,              85 —
[b][u]15. Yale University,               84 14[/u][/b]

Others Receiving Votes: [b][u]St. Lawrence University, 24[/u][/b]; Michigan Tech University, 18;
[b][u]Union College, 17[/u][/b]; University of Massachusetts, 10; Merrimack College, 8;
University of Minnesota, 6; Western Michigan University, 4; University of Notre Dame, 2;
Penn State University, 1; University of Vermont, 1.


USA Women's Poll
(2015-16 Season, Week Four)

First-place votes in parentheses

                           School  Last Week's Rank
1. University of Minnesota, 190(19)1
2. University of Wisconsin, 160 2
3. Boston College,          159 3
[b][u]4. Clarkson University,     129 5
5. Harvard University,      118 4[/u][/b]
6. Bemidji State University, 92 8
[b][u]7. Quinnipiac University,    66 7[/u][/b]
8. University of North Dakota65 6
9. Northeastern University,  31 —
10. Boston University,        18 9

Others Receiving Votes: [b][u]Cornell University, 10[/u][/b]; University of Minnesota Duluth, 4;
Penn State University, 2; Mercyhurst University, 1.