"It took us several weeks, but the always-awesome Mile High Hockey community has finally finished giving the Avs their season-ending grades. In order to try to keep everything fairly organized and easy to refer to, here is a quick look at them all again, with their grades averaged based on the fan poll. But how could one average grades? That's impossible! On contrare, friend. Or however you spell that. First was to settle on a value for each grade. A, for example, counted as a 95. B was 85, and so forth, down to F, at 55. (s/t to Cheryl for that set of values.) From there, using the poll results, the players' grades were weighted based on how many votes each grade got, and averaged, to produce a final score. The final formula was ((95*A)+(85*B)+(75*C)+(65*D)+(55*F)) / (total votes - incompletes). Is this really interval data? Can you actually do a mean with this? You're thinking too hard. Have some burgundy Kool-aid and relax. At the very least, it's more reliable than +/-. That looks an awful lot like math. That's more like it. In that case, magic was used." Read more: http://www.milehighhockey.com/2012/6/11/3077297/fan-pulse-2012-avalanche-final-grade-summary
