2012-13 Week #4 Rankings Released
With the release of Week #4 this morning, the excitement continues. USA and Canada Tier 1 Boys rankings look great. There are, however, a few wholes in the Tier 2 rankings. Let me stop and be clear about these terms. MYHockey uses the Term Tier 1 to refer to the highest level of competitive hockey played in a region or country. MYHockey uses Tier 2 to refer to pretty much all other competitive travel hockey. Regionally, these terms may not be consistent with terminology that you use, but there is no universally consistent terminology.
Back on point, the Tier 1 boys rankings are fairly complete with the standard issues this time of the season with the Canadian provinces outside of Ontario. The Tier 2 boys rankings definitely have more holes, as do the girls. While MYHockey has over 600 active volunteers at this point in the season, we could still use another 500 or so to fill out the missing leagues and divisions. If teams in your area or league are not showing up in the rankings, I encourage you to consider volunteering to enter scores and help eliminate any holes in the MYHockey database.
There is one issue I want to mention for the benefit of long-time visitors. MYHockey made a small change in the off-season that is confusing a few people. The formula for ranking teams has NOT changed. The numeric value has, but in a very simplistic way. The top rating value in an age category (i.e. peewee) used to fluctuate based upon a large number of factors, but was commonly in the 20 to 22 range. MYHockey has added logic to make the top team at each distinct level (i.e Midgets, Bantams, Peewees, Squirt/Atom) have a rating of 99.99. Why the change. Consistency. If you have a rating of 95.0, you can quickly say we are about five goals short of the best team in North America. For those of you from areas where minor birth year hockey is separate from major birth year hockey, please understand that all teams classified as peewees are grouped together during the ratings calculation process so that all games count. The top rated minor birth year team is often in the 95-97 range. Hope that clarifies a few questions out there. Enjoy another week of hockey out there!
Back on point, the Tier 1 boys rankings are fairly complete with the standard issues this time of the season with the Canadian provinces outside of Ontario. The Tier 2 boys rankings definitely have more holes, as do the girls. While MYHockey has over 600 active volunteers at this point in the season, we could still use another 500 or so to fill out the missing leagues and divisions. If teams in your area or league are not showing up in the rankings, I encourage you to consider volunteering to enter scores and help eliminate any holes in the MYHockey database.
There is one issue I want to mention for the benefit of long-time visitors. MYHockey made a small change in the off-season that is confusing a few people. The formula for ranking teams has NOT changed. The numeric value has, but in a very simplistic way. The top rating value in an age category (i.e. peewee) used to fluctuate based upon a large number of factors, but was commonly in the 20 to 22 range. MYHockey has added logic to make the top team at each distinct level (i.e Midgets, Bantams, Peewees, Squirt/Atom) have a rating of 99.99. Why the change. Consistency. If you have a rating of 95.0, you can quickly say we are about five goals short of the best team in North America. For those of you from areas where minor birth year hockey is separate from major birth year hockey, please understand that all teams classified as peewees are grouped together during the ratings calculation process so that all games count. The top rated minor birth year team is often in the 95-97 range. Hope that clarifies a few questions out there. Enjoy another week of hockey out there!
