Analysis of Ice Hockey Player Production and Team Location
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Abstract
CHAPTER ONE regional production changes over time.All players who competed on teams in the top professional leagues of North America (the AHL, CHL, ECHL, IHL and NHL) are included in the analysis.Because previous studies covered only one year, they often included college and high school level players in analysis.Since the current study examines four individual years, only professional players are used to keep the amount of data manageable.A few important limitations must be discussed before any analysis is attempted.As with many studies that use hometown information, it must be noted that some discrepancies may exist.Methods for collecting roster information are not always consistent over time or between different leagues.In some occasions players are listed by birthplace as opposed to hometown and this can produce some irregularities.Recreational hockey participation numbers were desired to help explain variations in production in this analysis; however, the author could not acquire this information.Though attempts were made to contact USA Hockey, the governing body of organized leagues throughout the country, no response was received and no organized published reports could be located. Organization of the StudyPrevious studies of hockey in 1974 and 1988 created 'snapshots' of hockey production during the time of their respective studies.They -National organizations had been formed across Canada in the late-19 th century to facilitate competition between amateur teams.The prize trophy of hockey, the Stanley Cup, was donated in 1893 and was awarded to the premiere Canadian amateur team at the end of each season (Pollak, 1998).After the tum of the century, professional hockey organizations began operations, the first of which was the International Hockey League, which began in 1904 with teams in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Ontario (Pollak, 1998).Though many in Canada resented the idea of professional hockey players competing for the prized Cup, by 1907 the Eastern Canada Hockey Association, a Stanley Cup qualifying league, began allowing professional skaters on its teams. Subsequent leagues followed, including the Ontario Professional HockeyLeague (the first fully professional league), the Pacific Coast Hockey League and the National Hockey Association (Pollak, 1998).The geographic extent of these leagues shows the distinct regional aspect of the early game.With the exception of the International and Pacific Coast Hockey Leagues, with teams in Pennsylvania and Michigan, and Washington and Oregon, respectively, the early professional leagues were exclusively Canadian.Decades of amateur play at all levels of Canadian society had created an extraordinary amount of hockey talent for these leagues.Even as teams moved to adjacent areas of the United States, they were largely filled with Canadian born players (Alexander, 1999).II ' l"""" '1 '.',""".00 V'l '"'T I
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.022 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".