SPC Power Rankings is a way of determining how successful your team was; or should have been during a tournament weekend. It is only based on your three (3) round-robin games.

By using "Pythagorean Expectation" we are able to quickly see how strong or weak a team is within their respective bracket. If teams are more comparable we should see lower SPC Power Ranking scores. A team that receives a perfect SPC Power Ranking score of 3.00 or anything greater than 2.80, can be considered too strong for the bracket, or they played a really weak team or two. Vise Versa can be said for a team that played their three (3) games and received an SPC Power Ranking of .50 or below. The team(s) in this situation would be considered not strong enough for the currently selected bracket. A weaker team should look to upgrade their roster or consider moving to another bracket, if possible. The AEA also looks at bracket strength as a way to also measure a team's strength. With the new bracket structure, we should see a leveling out of SPC Power Ranking scores. AEA uses math (yes, that thing you haven't used since high school, LOL) to support any teams moving up or down brackets. Brackets are structured to accommodate a specific skill set, the AEA Salary Cap System and it's values are in place for a reason and should be respected. Our overall goal is to see games decided by only a goal or two.

We use the AEA Salary Cap System to reduce the gap between teams and SPC Power Ranking values. The calculation's primary value is based on GF, GA & Games Played (see below).

breaking it down

Win Ratio = [(Goals Scored^3.5) / (Goals Scored^3.5 + Goals Allowed^3.5)] x 3 Games

Team A: [(26^3.5) / (26^3.5 + 5^3.5)] x 3
Results: 2.99 SPC Power Ranking Score
Conclusion: This team was expected to win all three (3) round-robin games. A very dominate team in their bracket. Clearly there is a dominance level much higher then their competition. Needs to move up a bracket, trim and replace with players that are a better fit, or unfortunately be removed from the tournament.

Team B: [(15^3.5) / (15^3.5 + 12^3.5)] x 3
Results: 2.06 SPC Power Ranking Score
Conclusion: This team was expected to win two (2) round-robin games. This is the score we are looking to see. We want to know that all teams have chance of losing a game. This means games were close in score and teams were very comparable.

Team C: [(7^3.5) / (7^3.5 + 23^3.5)] x 3
Results: 0.05 SPC Power Ranking Score
Conclusion: This team wasn't expected to win any round-robin games. This team should look to make some upgrades to stay in the bracket, or downgrades to be placed in a lower bracket.

SPC Power Rankings were first used at SPCXIII in 2017. We'll continue to monitor teams and the ratios and make adjustments where needed.