Teams average ages

[Tinner]

Out of curiosity, I went to each teams' website and calculated the average age of each team, based on their current roster. Some teams do not put the year of birth on their site and some teams had individual pages to go to to find each member. Those teams, I did not bother to check (amount of time) but of the ones I did do, here are the results. Accuracy should be close, but I won't say its perfect. All ages are based on year of birth, not days in the year. It doesn't matter what day you were born on.

Saskatoon=17.09
Kamloops=17.22
Portland = 17.23
Everette = 17.61
Calgary = 17.75
Seattle = 17.82
Vancouver=17.84
Regina = 17.87
Red Deer = 17.87
Lethbridge=18.00
Medicine Hat = 18.04
Kootenay=18.04
Spokane = 18.04
Brandon = 18.12
Prince George = 18.13
Kelowna = 18.15
Swift Current = 18.16
Tri City=18.17
Prince Albert = 18.22
Moose Jaw = 18.22


For those teams not on this list, please feel free to add to it. Add the age of all players on the team roster (somewhere between 22 and 26 players) and divide by that amount. Thanks for any help.

[GBG BLEED BLUE]

Saskatoon=17.09(as of Dec 17th)
Tri City=18.17 (as of Nov 27th)
Vancouver=17.84
Kootenay=18.04
Kamloops=17.22
Lethbridge=18.00
Spokane-The website did not give the age of the players

[Warrior Fan]

Warriors 17.42

[Tipped Off]

Not wanting to be nit picky, because it is a lot of work, but you said, "All ages are based on year of birth, not days in the year. It doesn't matter what day you were born on." Which is completely untrue. If a player is listed as an 87 and you count that as 18. You will get dramatically different results that if you tabulate by day of year. For instance a player born Jan 13th in 1987 is significantly different to the average than a player born on Dec 13th in 1987. About 330 days different....have a few of those per team and it changes the age equation greatly.

As an example...If I say Team A has five 16 year olds, five 17's, five 18's, fvie 19's and two 20's, the "average" would be
80+85+90+95+40/22 = 17.72

Same team....
Player 1, 16 y, 300 D
Player 2, 16 y, 275 D
Player 3, 16 y, 200 D
Player 4, 16 y, 100 D
Player 5, 16 y, 50 D
Player 6, 17 y, 300 D
Player 7, 17 y, 275 D
Player 8, 17 y, 200 D
Player 9, 17 y, 100 D
Player 10, 17 y, 50 D
Player 11, 18 y, 300 D
Player 12, 18 y, 275 D
Player 13, 18 y, 200 D
Player 14, 18 y, 100 D
Player 15, 18 y, 50 D
Player 16, 19 y, 300 D
Player 17, 19 y, 275 D
Player 18, 19 y, 200 D
Player 19, 19 y, 100 D
Player 20, 19 y, 50 D
Player 21, 20 y, 100 D
Player 22, 20 y, 200 D

by doing the calculation this way, you are "adding" 4000 days to the formula instead of just taking birth year.

If you calculate this out, you come up with an average age of 18.21.

With teams making up various combinations of this, the results for each team would be much different based on day/year instead of just year.

I just went and calculated the Tips based on Day/year and it came out to 18.257. So a pretty significant difference than just based on year.

[Chipper]

Not wanting to be nit picky, because it is a lot of work, but you said, "All ages are based on year of birth, not days in the year. It doesn't matter what day you were born on." Which is completely untrue. If a player is listed as an 87 and you count that as 18. You will get dramatically different results that if you tabulate by day of year. For instance a player born Jan 13th in 1987 is significantly different to the average than a player born on Dec 13th in 1987. About 330 days different....have a few of those per team and it changes the age equation greatly.

As an example...If I say Team A has five 16 year olds, five 17's, five 18's, fvie 19's and two 20's, the "average" would be
80+85+90+95+40/22 = 17.72

Same team....
Player 1, 16 y, 300 D
Player 2, 16 y, 275 D
Player 3, 16 y, 200 D
Player 4, 16 y, 100 D
Player 5, 16 y, 50 D
Player 6, 17 y, 300 D
Player 7, 17 y, 275 D
Player 8, 17 y, 200 D
Player 9, 17 y, 100 D
Player 10, 17 y, 50 D
Player 11, 18 y, 300 D
Player 12, 18 y, 275 D
Player 13, 18 y, 200 D
Player 14, 18 y, 100 D
Player 15, 18 y, 50 D
Player 16, 19 y, 300 D
Player 17, 19 y, 275 D
Player 18, 19 y, 200 D
Player 19, 19 y, 100 D
Player 20, 19 y, 50 D
Player 21, 20 y, 100 D
Player 22, 20 y, 200 D

by doing the calculation this way, you are "adding" 4000 days to the formula instead of just taking birth year.

If you calculate this out, you come up with an average age of 18.21.

With teams making up various combinations of this, the results for each team would be much different based on day/year instead of just year.

I just went and calculated the Tips based on Day/year and it came out to 18.257. So a pretty significant difference than just based on year.


I don't think the league cares if a 16 year old is born on Jan 1 or Dec 31 they are 16 for the whole year and its the same for every team fair is fair. thats why a 19 year old whos 20th birthday is on dec 31 can play in the world jrs and a player who turns 21 on Jan 1 one day later can not. They have to set the boundrys somewere and its not by counting days after their last birthday. At the end of the day there is usualy 3 -20 year olds, 3-16 year olds and the other 16 players are mixed with 17, 18 and 19 year olds on every team.

[Tipped Off]

understood, but when your posting about "average age" you can't just calculate on birth year. IT just doesn't give you a real average. Team A could have 15 of 23 players born in the first half of the year and team B could have 15 of 23 players born in the 2nd half of the year. The two teams may have the exact same number of players born in the same birth years, but the "Average age" would be .25 or .50 different. May not seem like much, but when you look at the everages it will throw the list off by a few teams, I guarantee it.

[LifelongChiefsFan]

I calculated the Chiefs' average age (using their actual age as of today) and it came out to 18.04.

[Tinner]

the league, and chipper is right, doesn't care about day of birth. All teams like to draft kids at certain ages in days, but if your age is listed as a 85, your a 20 yr old and thats it. I doubt the average age by days changes + or - 5% for any team. The thing I was/am trying to establish, is that I did it the same for every team. If you want to do it by days instead of years, fill your boots, it won't be any more accurate than what the league does or uses.

[Wingnut]

For the sake of comparison, here are the average ages from NHL Central Scouting, as of December 29th.

Brandon - 18.7
Calgary - 18.5
Everett - 18.3
Kamloops - 18.7
Kelowna - 18.8
Kootenay - 18.6
Lethbridge - 18.5
Medicine Hat - 18.6
Moose Jaw - 18.8
Portland - 18.3
Prince Albert - 18.6
Prince George - 18.9
Red Deer - 18.5
Regina - 18.4
Saskatoon - 18.3
Seattle - 18.2
Spokane - 18.6
Swift Current - 18.5
Tri-Cities - 18.8
Vancouver - 18.5