Big Muddy
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The point of the post you're quoting is that you can find arbitrary buckets to make any point you want. You're just creating another set of buckets, but I've created buckets as well and they paint different pictures. As such, bucketing is not a helpful way to highlight strength of opposition.
Average wins of Canadian opponents last season: 33.6
Average wins of US opponents last season: 34.6
Average strength of competition is going to look similar, and the young Canadian teams are only getting better.
You can look at it different ways.
My thought process was:
Step 1 - Are we away from TBL & Boston = Yep, good.
Step 2 - Look at the other divisions and then compare to our own (Canadian). East and West divisions looked tough. Central looked like it was OK until you got to TBL & Dallas. Carolina isn't bad either. Then I looked at ours and thought, hmm - that's not that bad or too tough.
Each to his own though I suppose.