PWR Update - Beanpot edition

Some sort of city-specific college hockey tournament concluded in a northeastern hamlet today, providing for rare Monday night college hockey. Beanpot results aside, the games did cause a little stir in the PWR. Wisconsin has now fallen to a tie for 16th place with North Dakota, all thanks to BU's 5-2 win over Northeastern and BC's 4-3 win over Harvard.

Things now look like this:

			Record			RPI
Rk	Team	PWR	Rk	W-L-T	Win %	Rk	RPI
1	Boston University	24	1	22-5-1	.8036	1	.6037*
2t	Vermont	22	9	16-6-4	.6923	4	.5751
2t	Notre Dame	22	2	21-5-3	.7759	2	.5798
4	Michigan	21	8	21-9-0	.7000	5	.5698
5	Northeastern	19	6t	19-7-2	.7143	3	.5762
6t	Cornell	18	4t	15-4-4	.7391	6	.5628*
6t	Denver	18	12	17-9-3	.6379	7	.5549
8t	Princeton	17	4t	17-6-0	.7391	8	.5540*
8t	Miami	17	11	16-8-4	.6429	9	.5532
10	Yale	16	3	17-5-1	.7609	10	.5492*
11	New Hampshire	14	19t	13-9-4	.5769	11	.5430
12	Minnesota-Duluth	13	14	15-9-6	.6000	12	.5424
13t	Ohio State	11	10	18-9-3	.6500	13	.5423*
13t	Minnesota	11	22	12-9-5	.5577	15	.5396
15	Boston College	10	19t	13-9-4	.5769	14	.5414
16t	Wisconsin	9	16t	16-11-3	.5833	16	.5384
16t	North Dakota	9	16t	16-11-3	.5833	17	.5374
18	Air Force	7	6t	19-7-2	.7143	19	.5232
19	Colorado College	6	16t	14-9-7	.5833	18	.5260
20t	St. Lawrence	5	23t	14-11-3	.5536	20	.5224
20t	St. Cloud State	5	28	15-13-2	.5333	21	.5208
22	Alaska	3	25t	12-10-6	.5357	22	.5178
23	Dartmouth	2	15	12-8-3	.5870	23	.5147
24	Minnesota State	1	31t	13-13-3	.5000	24	.5134
25	Mass.-Lowell	0	31t	13-13-0	.5000	25	.5131

The same general pattern still holds - PWR rank mirrors RPI rank. However, the unique scheduling of Sunday's Ohio State-Notre Dame game and Monday's Beanpot contests (and Wisconsin's subsequent moves within the PWR due to those results) show how sensitive the PWR still is to small amounts of new data points.

Parity is the name of the game, not just in the WCHA, but across college hockey. That's playing out in the PWR as well - small changes can lead to some big moves in the rankings.