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Originally Posted by Groot
Decided to take a quick look at what those numbers meant. In short, absolutely nothing. It's a weird model that is used for football, and they just took the same calculations and applied it to hockey. Not only that, they list a fair number of shortfalls in the system, ones that would be compounded when trying to apply it to hockey. Here's the explanation of how the SRS is calculated, from Hockey Reference the site that is referenced in that graph.
https://web.archive.org/web/20180531...4837.html?p=37 |
I just had to look at the Flames' numbers from 2004 to know it was bogus. Tampa was second overall and apparently just slightly harder that the Canucks, San Jose was third overall and a much easier opponent than the Canucks. The President's Trophy winning Red Wings weren't as hard an opponent as this year's Stars. The 2004 Sharks were an easier opponent than this year's Kings by that metric.