Chad said...
>Is there any person in Maine that knows exeactly how the "heal point" standings
>work that are used for high school sports.  This seems like a somewhat method
>for ranking teams.  It does not take into account personal opinions that make
>the other polls in the nation so much different from each other.  If anyone
>does know the formula for computing the "heal point" satndings would you please
>send it to me.  I think it would be interesting for someone to use this method
>maybe once a week and post the standings to see how they compare to the polls
>that the sports writers and coaches are coming up with.
 
What you are talking about is a "rating" rather than a poll.  Once we
get into the season you will see several ratings published on HOCKEY-L.
Unfortunately, one of the best is on vacation this year (TCHCR, by Keith
Instone).  Search previous year HOCKEY-L discussions for lots of
insights on ratings and the myriad of ways they might be calculated.
 
The "Heal Point System", used in several Maine secondary school sports,
is a good one, but given today's computing power ...  is a bit
antiquated, as I recall.  I probably have the formula somewhere (as I
used to do them on my own for basketball *many* years ago ...  never
could get the officials nor local media to actually get interested in
computers to do what they did by hand, but then that was before the
invention of the PC :-)).
 
cheers,
 
Wayne Smith
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