The MyHockeyRankings uses a stochastic model that runs a thousand path algorithm and it puts out pretty good results. You can use the rating information to see how many goals a team would beat other team by. I have found it pretty accurate. For example a team with a 90 rating playing a team with a 88 rating you would expect the 90 team to win by two goals. If 90 team won by 3 goals then most likely the team’s rating would improve slightly. As the season goes on the fluctuations in rankings minimizes since new games have have less and less impact on the overall rankings/ average. The MyHockeyRanking runs a new calc every week, his data is not always pristine but I think there is any army of volunteers who enter data across country and keep it up to date. Hockey teams play more games than Lacrosse (40-60 games) in a season which makes for better input data. MyHockeyRatings also publishes the calculations for the last ten games for transparency purposes. Nobody questions his methodology. As for the US Club Lax it is not clear what he is doing.
