Survey:
December 5, 2005

Subscribers to the HoopsKlyce Preseason Report and the Regular Season Emailer & Ratings were asked the following question:  What place are you in and how many teams are in your league?  The results are summarized below.

The following further explains the data in the table above:

League Size:  The number of teams in the league.  The results were grouped by league size.  A 12 teams league was the most common followed by a 10 team league.

HoopsKlyce Average Rank:  The average place reported by HoopsKlyce subscribers for  the associated league size.  An average rank of 1.0 would mean that everyone who reported was in first place.

Theoretical Median Rank:  Should every team in a league have reported, this would be the average rank or the rank for which half of the teams are above and half the teams are below.  I was looking to see that the average HoopsKlyce rank was better than the theoretical median rank.

HoopsKlyce %First Place:  This is the percentage of HoopsKlyce subscriber teams that were reported to be in first place.

Theoretical %First Place:  Should every team in the league have theoretically reported, this would be the percentage of those in first place.  For example if every member in a ten team league reported, one person would be in first out of ten for a percentage of 10%.  I was looking to see if the HoopsKlyce percentage was above this 'average' number.

HoopsKlyce %Last place:  This is the percentage of HoopsKlyce subscriber teams that were reported to be in last place.

Note that there were some league sizes different than those shown in the table (for example a 6 team league and a couple 20 team leagues) but the small sampling would not give useful results.

I will survey again later in the season to see if HoopsKlyce subscribers to the Regular Season Performance Rankings and Regular Season Emailer improve as the season progresses.