Not necessarily tougher schedule, but tougher wins/fewer weak losses.
I meant to ask - is there any way to get this based on Regulation wins? I feel like that would be more informative (and treat OT/SO as ties).
I've wondered about that. Elo, is made for chess as you know. A win is a win.its binary, a team scores 1 for a win and 0 for a loss.
I always struggled with the idea OT or SO wins. Do I still score them as 1? How about a loss, still a 0? I feel like keeping the binary scoring keeps it honest and keeps my influence away from the rankings. If I remove OT or SO wins then that will influence the results. I could use the NHL point system W=2, OTL & SOL=1, L=0. Or a 3 point system. In any case any of those will introduce my bias, or influence in the scoring.
That said, My code scrapes game results from the Internet, it can tell if a win is regulation or not regulation, but can't differentiate between OT or SO wins. I can for fun, have it ignore this wins and losses, and see how it looks. But I won't change the main rankings in this thread.