Mike GB

Hey! I'm new. Really appreciate everything on the site, it's great. I have become addicted to editing NHL94 and have been experimenting with player ratings. I have been analysing trends between original ratings in NHL 94 Rosters and real life player stats. The aim was to create a spreadsheet that could give NHL94 Ratings to any pro-Hockey player from around the world. It's quite hard to explain what I've done but I'll give it a go (sorry if it sounds odd). Firstly I selected a sample of 104 players (2 Forwards and 2 Defenseman from each NHL 94 team in the game). I then collected additional info for each player: height, actual weight, age in 1993, Goals, Assists, Penalty Minutes, Games Played (for the five previous seasons from 1988/89 to 1992/93), draft pick, international experience, seasons in NHL and seasons in NHL play-offs, plus seasons spent in other leagues around the world. I then performed a series of correlative tests to determine how this information conformed with the ratings. After a lot of tweaking I now have a spreadsheet that can predict a player's rating for each category to an exact accuracy of around 40% and to 85% to within one point. What this now means is that by entering just a little information I can get ratings for any global players that are related to the ratings in the original game. I have a couple of questions: 1. Being English I know very little about Ice Hockey (I just love the video game!), so don't know if any of the new ratings I come up with are accurate. Someone will have to help me with this, if they want to. 2. Is 40% accuracy close enough? 85% to within 1 point sounds really good but I do get some odd scores occasionally. I can continue to tweak the spreadsheet if people are interested in this. I'll give an example of ratings obtained (as I said above, I have no idea if these are realistic or not!) Sidney Crosby (2011) OvR 101 Fgt 2/L Agy 5 StH 6 Spd 5 ShA 5 OfA 6 End 6 DfA 4 Rgh 0 ShP 6 Pas 6 Chk 2 Agr 3 The aim really wasn't to rate players who are well known but to help with rating those who we know little about, especially international players. If anyone is interested, please correspond and we can work together to improve it. I have attached the Excel file if anyone wants to give it a go. nhl_ratings.zip