Friday, September 25, 2009

USCL Ratings and Power Rankings: Week 4 (2009)

Another week in the USCL, and another set of power rankings and ratings.

As a note of clarification, I took a good long hard look at how I was creating the power rankings. In the previous system, I was using the following ratios to calculate power ranking -- 43% team record, 43% opponents' records, 14% opponents' opponents' records. The more I dwelled on it, and the more I studied the rankings it was giving me, the more I came to realize that there was too much stress on the strength-of-schedule, and too little on the actual record achieved; a win is a win, after all, regardless of who the opponent is.

Therefore, in this slightly altered formula of power rankings, the ratios are now 55% team record, 35% opponents' records, and 10% opponents' opponents' records. I don't plan to change it again this year... famous last words.

Given that, here are the rankings for post-week 4 in the USCL's 2009 season.

1 - San Francisco 1.000
2 - New Jersey 0.992
3 - Seattle 0.938
4 - Miami 0.850
5 - Boston 0.823
6 - New York 0.817
7 - Tennessee 0.736
8 - Dallas 0.729
9 - Arizona 0.721
10 - Baltimore 0.657
11 - Philadelphia 0.656
12 - Chicago 0.640
13 - Queens 0.629
14 - Carolina 0.493

Some interesting observations. New York is several places above Baltimore, even though New York's record is 1.5-2.5, and Baltimore's record is 2.5-1.5. This is highly due to the strength of schedule. New York has played New Jersey twice and Seattle once -- three weeks of tough opposition, while Baltimore has played lower scoring teams.



The ratings are presented below. Remember, to be included on the list, a player must have played three lifetime games in the USCL, as well as having played in the 2009 season.

Rank Rating Name
1 2655 Jaan Ehlvest
2 2638 Hikaru Nakamura
3 2621 Julio Becerra
4 2604 Sergey Erenburg
5 2600 Boris Gulko
6 2588 Larry Christiansen
7 2576 Dean Ippolito
8 2575 Joel Benjamin
9 2574 Marko Zivanic
10 2571 Jacek Stopa
11 2554 Gregory Serper
12 2546 Alex Shabalov
13 2545 Josh Friedel
14 2543 Giorgi Kacheishvili
15 2539 Yuri Lapshun
16 2539 Eugene Perelshteyn
17 2533 Alejandro Ramirez
18 2532 Pascal Charbonneau
19 2529 Alex Lenderman
20 2515 Marc Esserman
21 2505 Eli Vovsha
22 2505 Bruci Lopez
23 2492 Rogelio Barcenilla
24 2491 Thomas Bartell
25 2490 Levon Altounian
26 2478 Alex Stripunsky
27 2478 Jesse Kraai
28 2474 Sam Shankland
29 2459 Jorge Sammour-Hasbun
30 2459 Dmitry Schneider
31 2458 Daniel Ludwig
32 2449 Denis Shmelov
33 2449 Sergey Kudrin
34 2446 Slava Mikhailuk
35 2438 Jan van de Mortel
36 2435 Angelo Young
37 2435 Larry Kaufman
38 2434 David Pruess
39 2433 Oleg Zaikov
40 2431 Tegshsuren Enkhbat
41 2429 Mackenzie Molner
42 2419 Florin Felecan
43 2415 John Bartholomew
44 2414 Mehmed Pasalic
45 2414 Blas Lugo
46 2408 Mark Ginsburg
47 2407 Nikola Mitkov
48 2406 Jonathan Schroer
49 2405 John Donaldson
50 2402 Robby Adamson
51 2399 Keaton Kiewra
52 2391 Jay Bonin
53 2379 Shinsaku Uesugi
54 2375 Andrei Zaremba
55 2374 Vadim Martirosov
56 2374 Eric Rodriguez
57 2366 Yian Liou
58 2366 Ron Simpson
59 2364 Ron Burnett
60 2354 Victor Shen
61 2352 Bryan Smith
62 2351 Peter Bereolos
63 2349 Aviv Friedman
64 2344 Michael Lee
65 2344 Yaacov Norowitz
66 2340 Matthew Herman
67 2331 John Bick
68 2329 Bayaraa Zorigt
69 2315 Eric Tangborn
70 2311 Ilya Krasik
71 2306 Todd Andrews
72 2296 Jon Burgess
73 2294 Ray Kaufman
74 2269 Craig Jones
75 2261 Nelson Lopez
76 2257 Josh Sinanan
77 2256 Tsagaan Battsetseg
78 2250 Danny Rensch
79 2227 Alejandro Moreno Roman
80 2217 Leo Martinez
81 2207 Elizabeth Vicary

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