Thoughts on todays Massey ratings

[agent]

http://www.oursportscentral.com/services/ratings/?lid=113&tid=1267

Last update : 09/30/2009
WHL Team Rank Power Offense Defense HA Sched
Calgary Hitmen 1 1 1 6 19 1
Portland Winterhawks 2 2 2 8 15 13
Spokane Chiefs 3 3 3 9 8 7
Medicine Hat Tigers 4 4 5 7 17 8
Tri-City Americans 5 5 9 3 9 3
Red Deer Rebels 6 6 11 5 20 2
Brandon Wheat Kings 7 8 19 1 7 15
Edmonton Oil Kings 8 7 15 4 14 6
Prince George Cougars 9 9 17 10 10 4
Kootenay Ice 10 10 10 14 2 9
Everett Silvertips 11 12 8 16 16 19
Kamloops Blazers 12 13 22 2 3 20
Prince Albert Raiders 13 11 12 15 1 12
Vancouver Giants 14 14 16 13 21 17
Swift Current Broncos 15 15 18 11 5 14
Moose Jaw Warriors 16 16 7 19 11 18
Kelowna Rockets 17 18 6 20 4 11
Chilliwack Bruins 18 17 4 22 22 16
Saskatoon Blades 19 19 14 17 12 22
Seattle Thunderbirds 20 21 20 12 18 10
Lethbridge Hurricanes 21 20 13 21 13 5
Regina Pats 22 22 21 18 6 21

[Boltz9]

Is that some sort of joke? 19th in offence?

[Hatguy]

Is that some sort of joke? 19th in offence?

That`s defence.

[Boltz9]

Moose Jaw's 19th in defence ya, I'm talking about Brandon being 19th in offence.

[agent]

Todays is very interesting http://www.oursportscentral.com/services/ratings/?lid=113&tid=1267
Last update : 10/06/2009
WHL Team Rank Power Offense Defense HA Sched
Calgary Hitmen 1 1 3 3 21 3
Brandon Wheat Kings 2 2 11 1 19 6
Moose Jaw Warriors 3 3 2 5 17 1
Edmonton Oil Kings 4 4 7 4 7 4
Regina Pats 5 6 1 9 18 8
Saskatoon Blades 6 5 12 2 9 2
Medicine Hat Tigers 7 8 4 10 14 9
Red Deer Rebels 8 7 6 8 15 5
Swift Current Broncos 9 11 9 7 2 11
Kootenay Ice 10 9 10 6 8 10
Prince Albert Raiders 11 10 5 11 4 7
Portland Winterhawks 12 12 8 14 11 18
Everett Silvertips 13 13 14 17 13 16
Vancouver Giants 14 15 18 16 16 20
Tri-City Americans 15 14 19 13 1 17
Kamloops Blazers 16 17 20 12 3 19
Lethbridge Hurricanes 17 16 13 20 12 12
Kelowna Rockets 18 18 15 18 6 21
Spokane Chiefs 19 19 17 19 5 15
Seattle Thunderbirds 20 20 22 15 10 13
Prince George Cougars 21 22 21 21 20 14
Chilliwack Bruins 22 21 16 22 22 22

Legend

Rank: overall team ranking based on merit (record relative to schedule faced)
Power: ranking based on predicted future performance
Offense: offensive ranking
Defense: defensive ranking
HA: ranking of team's home advantage
Sched: ranking of team's schedule difficulty (played so far this season)

About Massey Ratings

The Massey Ratings are compiled by Kenneth Massey with the assistance of OurSports Central. The Massey Ratings are a scientific and full-featured system for analyzing the performance of members of competitive leagues.

[Allin44]

I don't know the statistical methods, but it seems pretty absurd that Brandons defense is ranked at 2(not that they arent "good") and their offense.. 11

[dondo]

Kenneth is on crack is all I can say .. but w/e

here's a link to Oct 15 rankings

http://www.oursportscentral.com/services/ratings/?lid=113&tid=1267

small wonder I never make it to this site