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| 1888 - Ranking of No Division Affiliation teams based on Chi Square fit to Win/Loss | ||||||||||||
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| ScoreDif | Win_Loss | Schedule | Team | Division | Global | Conference | ||||||
| Rank | Rating | Rank | Rating | Rank | Rating | Games | Record | Rank | Games | Record | ||
| 1 | 36.05 | 1 | 26.69 | 16 | 10.42 | Yale | 12 | 12-0-0 | 1 | 13 | 13-0-0 | Northeast Indep |
| 2 | 33.42 | 2 | 25.13 | 8 | 7.50 | Princeton | 10 | 9-1-0 | 2 | 12 | 11-1-0 | Eastern Indep |
| 3 | 27.05 | 3 | 18.33 | 15 | 10.27 | Harvard | 11 | 10-1-0 | 3 | 13 | 12-1-0 | Northeast Indep |
| 5 | 9.62 | 4 | 14.12 | 17 | 11.27 | Lehigh | 11 | 9-2-0 | 4 | 12 | 10-2-0 | Eastern Indep |
| 4 | 15.60 | 5 | 10.76 | 3 | 5.62 | Pennsylvania | 12 | 5-7-0 | 5 | 16 | 9-7-0 | Eastern Indep |
| 7 | 6.49 | 6 | 8.39 | 14 | 10.22 | Lafayette | 9 | 6-3-0 | 6 | 9 | 6-3-0 | Eastern Indep |
| 6 | 8.51 | 7 | 4.02 | 18 | 11.50 | Dartmouth | 5 | 3-2-0 | 8 | 7 | 3-4-0 | Northeast Indep |
| 9 | 3.47 | 8 | 3.64 | 12 | 9.75 | Cornell | 4 | 2-2-0 | 7 | 6 | 4-2-0 | Northeast Indep |
| 8 | 4.49 | 9 | 2.43 | 1 | 5.22 | Wesleyan University | 9 | 2-7-0 | 9 | 9 | 2-7-0 | Northeast Indep |
| 12 | -6.20 | 11 | -1.59 | 20 | 15.92 | Trinity College CT | 6 | 4-1-1 | 10 | 7 | 5-1-1 | NoConf |
| 13 | -6.39 | 15 | -7.53 | 6 | 6.92 | MIT | 6 | 1-5-0 | 15 | 6 | 1-5-0 | Northeast Indep |
| 16 | -9.07 | 16 | -8.43 | 2 | 5.50 | Rutgers | 7 | 0-6-1 | 16 | 8 | 1-6-1 | Eastern Indep |
| 19 | -22.80 | 17 | -13.98 | 4 | 6.50 | Bucknell | 3 | 0-3-0 | 17 | 5 | 2-3-0 | Eastern Indep |
| 18 | -19.12 | 18 | -14.94 | 11 | 9.73 | Amherst College | 11 | 2-8-1 | 19 | 11 | 2-8-1 | Northeast Indep |
| 20 | -46.22 | 20 | -33.56 | 19 | 15.83 | Massachusetts | 3 | 0-3-0 | 20 | 3 | 0-3-0 | NoConf |
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