Here is the story from thejuniorhockeynews.com,
The juniorhockeynews received several comments regarding there recent article on the Top 20 leagues.
Here is that story from thejuniorhockeynews.com,
Rating The Junior Hockey Leagues – Reader Comments (thejuniorhockeynews.com)
2 comments:
Watching this Jr league ranking article pop up multiple times a year is amusing. It’s a subjective article with clear bias in which the author flails around trying to support his opinions as facts. Each time it’s published it garners tons of negative comments and feedback, which in turn are clicks, which in the end is all this author is looking for.
The latest defense of the rankings has the author finally trying to zoom in on one fact that is the basis for the rankings. This in and of itself is flawed. The author states that people who react negatively don’t read his criteria and therefore aren’t justified in their feedback. The criteria is ‘moving players to the next level’. What does next level mean? Is it tier III to tier II? Jr to NCAA? Jr A to Major Jr? Those are all apples to oranges.
Another weakness in the analysis is that all leagues have different numbers of players and teams. For example, let’s take the definition as moving from Jr hockey to NCAA as the criteria. BCHL has 21 teams. USHL has 16, NAHL has 35. Naturally the league with most teams has the advantage when it comes to total numbers of players moving to NCAA. Another question is moving to NCAA, well does that mean DIII or DI or both?
To omit or not clarify these factors is disingenuous at best, manipulative at worst.
Any Scout or College coach worth their Salt will tell you the league rankings for D1 NCAA advancement are 1 USHL, 2 BCHL, 3 NAHL/AJHL. The rest are considered move up leagues for players to get to these leagues or DIII.
Each players goals are different and some don’t target NCAA, some don’t target NCAA D1 and just focus on D3. All those are fine and they each have multiple paths to achieve. A better ranking would be to target the goal result and rank them by commit or transfer while in that league. So in essence have multiple lists, one for Major Jr’s, who’s the best at that….one for NCAA D1…..who’s the best at that….etc.
Anything else is obfuscation of the data in a pathetic attempt to hide the bias. So please don’t try to defend the negative feedback by narrowing down to one data point that supports your narrative and ignoring the rest, it’s dishonest.
DieHard wants clicks too!, obviously!!!!! JUNIORHOCKEYNEWS IS A JOKE!!!!!
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