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Your Score:

This number represents your actual raw score you received for each test and is the basis for all the other calculations.

Team Average:

This number is an average score for your team in each particular test. Are you above or below average for you group, in each particular test? (i.e. Not just players of the same age, gender and position ).

Team Percentiles:

This number determines your placement or ranking (by percentile) for that particular test alongside ALL of the other hockey players on your team .
How do you compare with the rest of the team or group that you were tested with? (i.e. Not just players of the same age, gender and position).

NOTE: Percentile is defined as the "number that divides a series into 100 groups having equal frequencies" or "your placement or ranking for that particular test alongside other players who have the same or not as good a score" or "the percentage of players who have the same or not as good as your score on the drill". The higher the "percentile score" the better. (For example if your percentile score is 75 that means that 75 percent of the other scores are the same or not as good as yours and that only 25% of the scores are better).

Hockey Canada Average:

This number is an average score for each particular test of all the hockey players the same age, gender and position in the Hockey Canada database.

Hockey Canada Percentile:

This number determines your placement or ranking for that particular test alongside other hockey players the same age, gender and position in our Hockey Canada database. This feature will compare you with other players in the Hockey Canada database of the same age, gender and position?

1. The dark bars (blue) are the player's scores compared to the rest of the team.(Team Percentiles)
2. The light bars (green) are the players' scores compared to all of the players in the Hockey Canada database of the same age, gender and position. (Hockey Canada Percentiles)

* the foregoing classifications are introduced solely to help coaches and players interpret the test results in comparison with the percentile scales.

Comments: The comments with the bar graphs are based on the player's individual test results, and give a brief indication of their status, as well as a short comment on either to maintain their program or reasons why they may need to work on a skill. A brief general recommended training procedure may also be included. For a specific and personalized program we recommend you consult your trainer, coach, or exercise specialist.

To make an extreme example: if you have 100 players and 89 players take 2 seconds, one player takes 2.1 seconds and 10 players take 20 seconds to complete a drill ......... the average time for all 100 players would be = 3.801 seconds. The player that scored 2.1 seconds was well below the team average of 3.801 seconds which is good, BUT the player's percentile was only 11. (i.e. only 11 players received the same or not as good as score). The few players who scored very poorly and pulled the average score higher even though most of the players only took 2 seconds to complete the drill. (i.e. Not a perfect bell shaped curve).

Remember that a higher score (time to complete a drill) is not as good when we are talking about the skating drills where a lower score (time to compete a drill) is better. The above concept is very hard to first understand but after one does the concept of percentiles and averages together provide a very powerful tool and can provide a lot more information than having just one of these scores alone.