I know intially I was saying:
My point was that even if we artificially add 'integrated league' points like HV suggested for Selanne, he's still not Top 4 in this metric.
No he probably doesn't climb all the way to 4th as AO would climb as well and Selanne is dealing with more variance but he probably closes the gap quite a bit let's look here.
and I'll do it the simple way just looking at the 2nd Canadian scorer and not adjusting for outliers.
93
Mario 160
LaFoantiane 148 USA
Oates 142....
Selanne 132
so under the old system he is .89, but for VsX Canadian he is .93
96
Mario 161
Jagr 149
Sakic 120
Francis 119...
selanne 108
not sure on how the outliers are treated but 4 of the 11 players in the top 10 were non Canadians, Selanne excluded and 2 more were from BC another non traditional talent stream in the 06 era.
Maybe he gains 1 or 2 points here.
97
Mario 122
Selanne 109
Kariya 99
LeClair 97
Gretzky 97
next Canadian is Francis at 90
So under the current VsX system he is 100 under a Canadian system he is 1.10 a difference of 10 points.
so at minimum here we have 4+1+10 before we go to the 4th season
98
Jagr 102
Foppa 91
Gretzky 90
Bure 90
Francis 87
Selanne 86
so under teh curetn system he is 94.5 (95) and under a Canadian system he is 98.8 (99)
so after 4 years we have 4+1+10+4
99
Jagr 127
selanne 107
Kariya 101
Forsberg 97
Sakic 96
So under the old system he is 100 compared against the Canadian standard he is 1.11
After 5 years we have 4+1+10+4+11
00
Jagr 96
bure 94
Recchi 91
Kariya 86
selanne 85
Under the current system he is .90 adjusted he is 98.8 (99) a difference of 9
so over 6 years its a difference of 39/6 =6.5 per season bump, lets look to season 7
11
Sedin 104
MSL 99
Perry 98
selanne 80
Selanne only gains from 80.8 (81) to 81.6 (82|) for 1 point which leaves us with 37/7= 5.28 or 5.3 really but elts say it's only 5.2
So his 92.9 (cureent) plus 5.2 would give him a total of 98.1 making him a much more solid member of that top 4 this round right?
6 Ted Lindsay 104.8
7 Andy Bathgate 101.2
8 Alex Ovechkin 97.5
9 Charlie Conacher 97.1
13 Teemu Selanne 92.9
also this is just points, Selanne would do much better in the goal scoring metric (both overall and adjusted as many of the top goal scoring seasons were by non traditional talent stream guys, as we will find out in this project, for the 90's).
Also there is nothing "artificial" about it, it's a direct comparison using the same methodology to make a more fair and accurate assessment here Canadians against Canadians (as that is and should be the common standard for the VsX metric).
Now if you want to argue that Canadian talent slipped in the 90's feel free but there isn't much of a case there IMO.