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NCAA Percentage Index (NPI) Rankings:
Division I Men’s Hockey
Welcome to the 2025-2026 NCAA Men’s Hockey NPI Calculator! Using this tool, you can play around with the results of this year’s men’s college hockey season and see its effect on the NPI (NCAA Percentage Index).
Big news this year as the NCAA has decided to get rid of the Pairwise Rankings in favor of switching to solely to NPI. The women were already using NPI as part of the Pairwise calculations last season, but the common opponent and head-to-head factors are no more and both sports will now use NPI as its only metric for tournament selection.
This is our first season hosting either a Pairwise or NPI ranking for men’s hockey here at BC Interruption. We’ve been doing it for years for women’s hockey, but with so many other sources for the men’s rankings out there it didn’t seem worth the effort to go through the work to build it. With the two rankings now aligned a bit closer in their formulas, we did some tweaking to make it easier to add/remove teams and added in home/road weighting adjustments so it wouldn’t be too difficult to just pull in the men’s results and host both sports.
It also doesn’t hurt that BCI seems to be, at least as of publication, the only place you can find the NPI for now. Go us.
Should you wish to do some “what if” exercises and see what the rankings would be with a different game result, here are some simple instructions:
A few important notes and tips:
If you have any questions, comments, or bugs to report, I can be reached at grant dot salzano at gmail dot com.
