Sunday, October 5, 2008
Russian KHL League Equivalency to date
The 2008-09 KHL season is about 14 games in, and we can take our first stab at producing a league equivalency. There are 23 skaters in the KHL who played at least 20 games in the NHL last year. Their cumulative stats:
That would give a league equivalency of 25/41 ~ 0.60. However, the KHL has much lower scoring and a lower assist-per-goal rate than the NHL, so we need to adjust this figure by the overall PPG scoring rates of the two leagues = 0.41 (NHL) / 0.36 (KHL). This gives a league equivalency of 0.70, which is somewhat lower than Russian leagues have had in the past, albeit with much larger numbers of players and games played in the sample.
| GP | G | A | PP82 | |
| NHL 2007-08 | 1191 | 131 | 228 | 25 |
| KHL 2008-09 | 260 | 54 | 76 | 41 |
Labels: Equivalencies, KHL, Projections
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