LANGLEY — The B.C. senior boys basketball rankings we run weekly here at VarsityLetters.ca has always been and will continue to be a staple of our coverage.
From a personal standpoint, as a former provincial ranker myself for much of the last quarter century, it remains the traditional vehicle for giving basketball fans in our province a look at who the top teams are in each of the four tiers.
Perhaps most importantly it is the starting point for discussion on who’s the best, who’s rising and who’s falling.
All of this is brought to your attention today because we will be offering a very different look at the province’s teams as a supplement to the weekly Top 10s, this time through the lens of the Simple Ranking System (SRS).
Please know that one is NOT in competition with the other.
What is hoped here is that an even more complete picture of the province’s top teams emerges through the addition of SRS to the landscape.
So that is what we present here today, courtesy of Asher Mayan, a fifth-year forward with Kamloops’ Thompson River WolfPack, and a graduate of Langley Christian.
Before we present Mayan’s Week 1 offering, which takes into account the entire BC boys season to this point, he offers an explanation of the SRS formula.
“Simple Ranking System (SRS) measures teams based on point-differential in each game.
It does not consider wins and losses differently but looks at each team’s average margin of victory.
For example, the SRS rating of team ‘A’ is calculated by the average point’ differential of Team ‘A’, plus the average point-differential of all of team ‘A’s opponents. This calculation is done iteratively until each team’s SRS is found. An SRS rating of 0 indicates an average team, and a team with an SRS rating of 20 is expected to beat an ‘average’ team by 20 points.”
Here is this week’s debut via BCbballmetrics
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