Welcome to another edition of the BCHL power rankings.
From this point on the statistics will be consistent. The last rendition I felt gave an unfair advantage to teams that were special teams heavy, as in they were excelling on both the power play and penalty kill (I’m looking at you, Cranbrook Bucks). Instead, I have reverted to the Scotty Bowman method of adding power play and penalty kill percentages together to create an overall percentage for special teams.
In place of that field is now the winning percentage. It only seems fair to incorporate a team’s ability to turn out points from games as an indicator of how they are performing.
As with last time, each category, with the help of Excel, has been weighted equally and distributed. For example, the Brooks Bandits. They are top in win percentage, goals-against average, and team save percentage. Therefore, the Bandits earn 10 points in each of those categories. The Blackfalds Bulldogs, on the other hand, are last in win percentage, goals-for average), and goaltending. As a result, they receive zero points in each of those categories. Each team is distributed equally depending on how close they are to the top team and the bottom team.
Here are how the stats have shaken out from the start of the season to the beginning of December:
