Regie00

It is is a good benchmark. As a matter of fact it was built to help my hockey tournaments put together tournaments with more parity. The problem is it is relied upon as though it was accurate past whole numbers. So if you are making decisions down to the 1/100 then you have a problem. This is where the accuracy problems comes into play. If you have a team that is a 95.34 and a team that is a 95.30 and this is only measure, you have a done a disservice to accuracy. As someone already mentioned teams do not report all of their games. Then there is fact that the numbers of games played is crucial. Because if you comparing teams to make the numbers a true comparison you need the numbers of games to be the same as well. Otherwise you comparing averages. He is the kicker. If a tournament team plays a full season team their numbers stay in the calculation even though the tournament team may never have enough games to actually show up on the ranking. I will say this tends to be a bigger problem in AAA because not all of the teams in the district play each other. Which should be a requirement.

I just discovered this site and it looks to be a good forum for this discussion. I had reason at the end of this past season to dig deeply into how MidAm uses the myhockeyrankings website and what I discovered was MidAm had no idea how the site worked. What I mean by that is they didn't know how the math worked and they didn't realize that teams with the same rating are ranked differently because myhockeyrankings then reverts to alphabetical order. That's right a team from Alabama with the same rating as a team from Pittsburgh would be ranked higher because A comes before P. MidAm uses this site as the sole benchmark for the end of the season district tournaments. Does anyone else think this needs to be changed?