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We created a survey asking people to rank each team’s front office in six different categories. The results are in, and not overly surprising.

The results are in. Just over 1,300 people took our annual Front Office Confidence survey, voting on how they view every team’s ability in six categories: roster building, cap management, drafting and developing, trading, free agency and their overall vision.

Of the over 1,300 voters, not everyone will have workable knowledge of every team’s management group and we ended up with around 800 to 1,000 votes per team. Sample size matters with something like this and we feel we have enough responses here to make a fair ranking based on their votes. The 95 percent confidence interval is +/-0.06 on average, meaning we are 95 percent sure the true results are within a very small range of roughly 0.12. If there’s a team’s spot you disagree with, know that their ranking could be a couple spots higher or lower based on that, but not much.

The overall ranking is determined by a weighted average of the score in each category based on how important survey respondents felt each category was in last year’s survey. Drafting and developing was viewed as the most important front office skill, followed by roster building, vision, cap management, trading and finally free agency. For the Vegas Golden Knights, each category was weighted equally.

What’s different about this year’s edition is that we added team filters to the survey. While the overall rankings will be decided by public opinion, beside that will be the difference in fan base opinion to see how much more or less confident fans of that specific team are in what their team is doing.