Wednesday 10 February 2016

Most Improved KIJHL Teams since September & October

This project spurred after the Columbia Valley Rockies were not the hottest team in the KIJHL in the last Power Rankings, which was a surprise to me. So I thought I'd try to figure out which teams have improved the most since September and October using the Power Rankings system.

So how this works, is I subtracted the current Power Ranking Total from the September/October Total.

So let's look at the Most Improved Teams since September's Power Ranking:

Rank TEAM Feb TTL Sep TTL Diff
1 100 Mile House Wranglers 29 61 32
2 North Okanagan Knights 47 65 18
3 Summerland Steam 37 51 14
4 Chase Heat 27 39 12
5 Grand Forks Border Bruins 55 65 10
6 Kamloops Storm 27 36 9
7 Osoyoos Coyotes 13 18 5
8 Fernie Ghostriders 29 32 3
9 Kimberley Dynamiters 10 13 3
10 Castlegar Rebels 28 29 1

Knowing that September can be a hot or rough start for some teams, I thought it would be fair to also look at the most improved teams since October as well:

Rank TEAM Feb TTL Oct TTL Diff
1 North Okanagan Knights 47 70 23
2 Osoyoos Coyotes 13 31 18
3 Beaver Valley Nitehawks 18 30 12
4 Chase Heat 27 35 8
5 100 Mile House Wranglers 29 34 5
6 Summerland Steam 37 42 5
7 Columbia Valley Rockies 49 54 5
8 Sicamous Eagles 66 70 4
9 Kamloops Storm 27 28 1
10 Princeton Posse 70 70 0


Thoughts:
  • The North Okanagan Knights have made tremendous strides since September and October.
  • 100 Mile House has improved greatly from a slow September, and has since relatively leveled since then.
  • Osoyoos Coyotes have also appeared to overcome a "slow" September and October, noting that they were still ranked in the Top 10 both months.
  • My hope of proving numbers wise that Columbia Valley has greatly improved, back-fired, while they appear 7th on the October list, they don't appear on the September list. For me this indicates that they are a stable team, and with stability comes victories. So in short, my theory is that their play was efficient, but has only recently translated to wins - a stabilization of Power Rankings and Standings.
  • Keep these improved teams in mind when it comes play-off time, it means that they are beginning to hit their stride and their peak.

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