With some help from Stokcholm statistics manager C3P0 I've compiled the following stats.
They are a bit similar to those that GM sedsy presented a couple of days ago. I'll use them to show something different though.
TWHL1 TWHL2 TWHL3 (current)
TEAM PTS PCT TEAM PTS PCT TEAM PTS PCT
TORONTO 105 .656 SINGAPORE 121 .756 TAIPEI 89 .742
VANCOUVER 104 .650 TAIPEI 115 .719 TOKYO 85 .720
TAIPEI 103 .644 TORONTO 115 .719 SINGAPORE 75 .636
TOKYO 101 .631 TOKYO 104 .650 STOCKHOLM 73 .629
CHICAGO 98 .613 STOCKHOLM 98 .613 HONG KONG 72 .621
MEXICO 97 .600 HONG KONG 92 .575 ROME 74 .607
L A 96 .600 ROME 90 .563 RIO 68 .586
SINGAPORE 91 .569 CAPE TOWN 90 .563 VANCOUVER 70 .583
STOCKHOLM 89 .556 MEXICO 88 .550 TORONTO 71 .582
BERLIN 85 .531 VANCOUVER 85 .531 MEXICO 65 .533
NEW YORK 85 .531 CALCUTTA 81 .506 CAPE TOWN 59 .500
MONTREAL 80 .506 --------------------- MELBOURNE 60 .500
--------------------- CHICAGO 79 .494 ---------------------
CAPE TOWN 74 .463 MELBOURNE 78 .488 CALCUTTA 58 .483
CAIRO 73 .456 NEW YORK 76 .475 CAIRO 56 .467
RIO 71 .444 MOSCOW 74 .463 NEW YORK 56 .459
MELBOURNE 71 .444 BERLIN 73 .456 MONTREAL 52 .448
MOSCOW 70 .438 L A 72 .450 L A 52 .441
LONDON 69 .431 MONTREAL 71 .444 PRAGUE 51 .425
HAVANA 67 .419 RIO 61 .381 SANTIAGO 46 .397
HONG KONG 65 .406 LONDON 59 .369 HAVANA 43 .371
PRAGUE 63 .394 HAVANA 57 .356 BERLIN 44 .367
SANTIAGO 58 .363 PRAGUE 50 .313 LONDON 41 .353
ROME 56 .350 CAIRO 48 .300 CHICAGO 38 .317
CALCUTTA 49 .306 SANTIAGO 43 .269 MOSCOW 30 .242
DIFF 56 .350 DIFF 78 .487 DIFF 53 .500
The Diff is the difference in win % between the best and the worst team in the league. As you all can see the gap has grown each season. The differances between the TWHL1 and TWHL2 standings are huge. Some teams improved alot such as Hong Kong, Calcutta and Rome. Others like Santiago and Cairo went the other way.
Between the TWHL2 and TWHL3 season we also see alot of changes. The TWHL1 draft was a good fraft filled of prospect so it wasn't that strange that some of the bad teams improved a lot. If we look at how the 6 last teams in TWHL2 has developed after a relativly weak draft it will show the following.
These numbers are based on how the teams will end up if they will have their current win % at the end of twhl3
Bottom 6
Santiago +.128 = +20pts
Cairo +.167 = +26pts
Prague +.112 = +18pts
Havana +.015 = +2pts
London -.016 = -2pts
Rio +.205 = +32pts
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total +96pts
And this is TWHL2's top 6
Singapore -.120 = -19pts
Taipei +.023 = +4pts
Toronto -.137 = -22pts
Tokyo +.070 = +11pts
Stockholm +.016 = +2pts
Hong Kong +.046 = +6pts
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total -18pts
Here we can see that the botton six teams from TWHL2 have improved ALOT. They will take 96 more points than they did last season. Thats 16 points / team. I think that this shows that the league gives the bad teams pretty good help to re-build. Question is if this years draft is strong enough to help the poor teams like the previous drafts has.
To re-build a bad team into a mediocre one can be done in a season, to get from medicore to a contender however might be harder. Here you'll need a lot of luck with the S&S, positive rerates and farm rerates. Good coaching is of course also required.
Rome and Hong Kong have gone from bad to contender in three seasons. With good streaks both these teams could make it to the final although it is very hard to get out of the Lee. I'm glad Stockholm isn't in the LEE.
Even after seeing how much the bottom 6 teams have gained from last season I still feel that the league might be dividing, So perhaps we should have drafts more like the one we had in TWHL2.