Demographics of Women's Hockey viewed from a Ratings Perspective

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Demographics of Women's Hockey viewed from a Ratings Perspective

Post by LSQRANK » Sat Aug 25, 2018 11:40 am

The demographics of women's ice hockey played in North America can be explored in many ways by categorizing several of its attributes that describe who plays hockey, where they play it and how many people are involved. Hand in hand with these questions is the analysis of game score data that uses the science and mathematics of rating systems to create ranking profiles of teams in these leagues. This study performed a North American-wide adjustment of women and girls competitive hockey teams ranging from professionals, universities and colleges, juniors and tiered clubs (CAN/AM 20U, 19U, 17U and 16U), hockey academies, prep schools, and secondary high schools in both Canada and the United States. In total, there were 2,104 teams included in the network that accounted for more than 29,000 games which had scores published on various league websites. To examine the various levels of hockey across North America trend lines of the rating values were plotted which in essence captures the competitive gradient from top to bottom within any particular league of interest. The real significance and power behind this data set is that it gives the governing bodies of hockey a snapshot in time with respect to how their particular league rate against their peers and competitors. The same analyses performed on a yearly basis provides a time-series perspective which could indicate whether or not organizational objectives and goals are being met over the long term.

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