2015-16 ECHL Schedule released

[LadyStanley]

http://www.echl.com/files/ECHLSchedule1516.pdf

(Received via email. They don't even have the story online, yet.)

(That only seems to be schedule through 1/8/2016 )

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[GindyDraws]

The Norfolk Admirals have their entire home schedule up on their website. I'm curious if the Indy Fuel will stick to their division (and 25-30 games against Fort Wayne & Evansville) or go to Alaska and Idaho twice. I say this because I cannot look at the schedule yet.

 

[The Hankster]

The Gladiators released their home schedule for the year:
http://www.gwinnettgladiators.com/site/news/article.asp?art=3363

One interesting thing: They have a three game home stretch against Alaska (Sat-Sun-Tues) and one against Idaho (Fri-Sat-Sun), both in JanuarY

 

[Nerdlinger]

Here's a grid showing the number of games played against each opponent for the 2015-16. It's really all over the place. I'm surprised at the lack of oversight shown by the league with regard to scheduling. Why have divisions and conferences if they have little effect on the schedule?

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[royals119]

Aside from Brampton vs Elmira and Reading vs Wheeling, every team has more games vs their division than teams outside the division. That is actually a pretty balanced schedule as far as the ECHL goes. Obviously this season (14-15) was particularly bad due to the late additions from the CHL and the last minute division shifts after the schedule was set, but there were teams who had no games, or less than five vs division opponents this year. There has never been a balanced schedule in the 14 years I've been following this league, and playing non-division teams more than division teams isn't unusual. It is mostly geography. Reading is closer to Wheeling than it is to Adirondack or Manchester, so no surprise to see that. Same with Elmira/Brampton.

 

[Nerdlinger]

Aside from Brampton vs Elmira and Reading vs Wheeling, every team has more games vs their division than teams outside the division. That is actually a pretty balanced schedule as far as the ECHL goes. Obviously this season (14-15) was particularly bad due to the late additions from the CHL and the last minute division shifts after the schedule was set, but there were teams who had no games, or less than five vs division opponents this year. There has never been a balanced schedule in the 14 years I've been following this league, and playing non-division teams more than division teams isn't unusual. It is mostly geography. Reading is closer to Wheeling than it is to Adirondack or Manchester, so no surprise to see that. Same with Elmira/Brampton.

Still, it looks so messy to me. If this is balanced for the ECHL, I'm curious to see how bad other years were.

 

[royals119]

If you go to ECHL.com, click on stats, then archive, and choose a year you can see the head to head records for each team vs every other team. It is about half way down the archive for each year. There is also a team vs division chart a little higher up.

 

[Nerdlinger]

If you go to ECHL.com, click on stats, then archive, and choose a year you can see the head to head records for each team vs every other team. It is about half way down the archive for each year. There is also a team vs division chart a little higher up.

Cool, thanks. I may do some more number crunching.

 

[royals119]

You can also check out Hans' page. http://www.mib.org/~lennier/hockey/

He posts more in the AHL page, but his site has all leagues. The "grids" link has head to head matchups, but he has all sorts of schedule breakdowns and attendance stats on there.

 

[Avsrule2022]

Can anyone compare this to recent AHL schedules? I don't really follow the AHL, but it seems they would be similar.

 

[Nerdlinger]

You can also check out Hans' page. http://www.mib.org/~lennier/hockey/

He posts more in the AHL page, but his site has all leagues. The "grids" link has head to head matchups, but he has all sorts of schedule breakdowns and attendance stats on there.

Well, at least the AHL seems to have even numbers of games between each team. So they can split home and away.

 

[GindyDraws]

Well, at least the AHL seems to have even numbers of games between each team. So they can split home and away.

Uhhh... Pacific Division next year?

 

[Nerdlinger]

Uhhh... Pacific Division next year?

I was just going by the 2014-15 schedule and several previous ones. I have no idea what next year's schedule will look like, but I don't see why they couldn't keep the even team-vs.-team game numbers. Even if the Pacific teams are only playing themselves.

 

[HansH]

I've updated my site with this data, for those who want to slice and dice.

 

[Sports Enthusiast]

Seeing Reading and Wheeling every other game gets boring.

 

[HansH]

Seeing Reading and Wheeling every other game gets boring.

Less boring than seeing... no one at all. Trust me. Nine years of that gets REALLY boring.

 

[Sports Enthusiast]

Less boring than seeing... no one at all. Trust me. Nine years of that gets REALLY boring.

You're getting hockey back though aren't you?

 

[HansH]

You're getting hockey back though aren't you?

Perhaps you missed the part about NINE YEARS WITHOUT. I'd gladly have taken nine years of playing Long Beach and Bakersfield every other game over nothing. That was the point.