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10-22-2008, 08:51 AM
Courtesy Alan Caldwell
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Team Travel
This one took some work but it answers a question I was asked a week or so back: which WHL team does the most travelling during the season? So what I did was I took each team's schedule and added up the distance they travelled to get to each game. To illustrate what I did, here's a snippet of Brandon's schedule, just picked at random. The date, the game, and how many kilometers Brandon had to travel to get there:
Sat Dec 27 Regina @ Brandon 0
Tue Dec 30 Brandon @ Lethbridge 1033
Wed Dec 31 Brandon @ Kootenay 315
Sat Jan 3 Brandon @ Regina 970
Sun Jan 4 Regina @ Brandon 378
Tue Jan 6 Brandon @ Swift Current 630
Fri Jan 9 Saskatoon @ Brandon 630
Sat Jan 10 Edmonton @ Brandon 0
ie, to get to the Lethbridge game on the 30th, they drive 1033 km from where they are on the 27th (at home), then 315 km more to Kootenay from Lethbridge for the game on the 31st. Then 970 km from Kootenay to Regina for the game on the 3rd, etc - although in that case, the total distance might actually be more because they probably go home first and then back to Regina a couple days later. But it's far too much work to try and account for all those possibilities, so I'm just basing this on the travel from a game-to-game basis.
So without any further blathering, here's the league-wide totals for the season....I've included a miles conversion as well, for American readers who are probably more comfortable working with that.
Kms Miles
Brandon 30170 18102
Kootenay 26562 15937
Prince George 26552 15931
Edmonton 26270 15762
Red Deer 24520 14712
Spokane 24417 14650
Kamloops 24225 14535
Prince Albert 23957 14374
Portland 23762 14257
Kelowna 23225 13935
Lethbridge 23192 13915
Tri-City 22955 13773
Swift Current 22485 13491
Moose Jaw 22417 13450
Chilliwack 22412 13447
Calgary 22325 13395
Saskatoon 21707 13024
Everett 21698 13019
Vancouver 21625 12975
Medicine Hat 21513 12908
Seattle 21293 12776
Regina 19953 11972
No surprise that Brandon - the league's easternmost team - and Prince George - the northernmost and most remote - are at or near the top of the list. Kootenay being #2 did surprise me a bit since geographically they are pretty centralized in the league, but when you think about it, they are pretty far away from even some of their divisional opponents (Kootenay to Edmonton = 708 km) who they have to visit a lot.
And Regina has the cushiest schedule....it's shorter for all the Eastern division teams this year because they don't have to make the U.S. trip (and longer for Central teams, who do) but even at that, I was surprised to see Regina does the least travelling. Guess it helps to be no more than 415 km from any of your divisional foes.
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Team Travel
This one took some work but it answers a question I was asked a week or so back: which WHL team does the most travelling during the season? So what I did was I took each team's schedule and added up the distance they travelled to get to each game. To illustrate what I did, here's a snippet of Brandon's schedule, just picked at random. The date, the game, and how many kilometers Brandon had to travel to get there:
Sat Dec 27 Regina @ Brandon 0
Tue Dec 30 Brandon @ Lethbridge 1033
Wed Dec 31 Brandon @ Kootenay 315
Sat Jan 3 Brandon @ Regina 970
Sun Jan 4 Regina @ Brandon 378
Tue Jan 6 Brandon @ Swift Current 630
Fri Jan 9 Saskatoon @ Brandon 630
Sat Jan 10 Edmonton @ Brandon 0
ie, to get to the Lethbridge game on the 30th, they drive 1033 km from where they are on the 27th (at home), then 315 km more to Kootenay from Lethbridge for the game on the 31st. Then 970 km from Kootenay to Regina for the game on the 3rd, etc - although in that case, the total distance might actually be more because they probably go home first and then back to Regina a couple days later. But it's far too much work to try and account for all those possibilities, so I'm just basing this on the travel from a game-to-game basis.
So without any further blathering, here's the league-wide totals for the season....I've included a miles conversion as well, for American readers who are probably more comfortable working with that.
Kms Miles
Brandon 30170 18102
Kootenay 26562 15937
Prince George 26552 15931
Edmonton 26270 15762
Red Deer 24520 14712
Spokane 24417 14650
Kamloops 24225 14535
Prince Albert 23957 14374
Portland 23762 14257
Kelowna 23225 13935
Lethbridge 23192 13915
Tri-City 22955 13773
Swift Current 22485 13491
Moose Jaw 22417 13450
Chilliwack 22412 13447
Calgary 22325 13395
Saskatoon 21707 13024
Everett 21698 13019
Vancouver 21625 12975
Medicine Hat 21513 12908
Seattle 21293 12776
Regina 19953 11972
No surprise that Brandon - the league's easternmost team - and Prince George - the northernmost and most remote - are at or near the top of the list. Kootenay being #2 did surprise me a bit since geographically they are pretty centralized in the league, but when you think about it, they are pretty far away from even some of their divisional opponents (Kootenay to Edmonton = 708 km) who they have to visit a lot.
And Regina has the cushiest schedule....it's shorter for all the Eastern division teams this year because they don't have to make the U.S. trip (and longer for Central teams, who do) but even at that, I was surprised to see Regina does the least travelling. Guess it helps to be no more than 415 km from any of your divisional foes.
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