About Tiering Purpose and Benefits

Tiering is the League process of grouping like-skilled teams together to compete against each other during regular season play.

The number of teams within the league at a given age division will determine the number of tiers/ categories that league will operate for the season.

Prior to the start of Tiering Games, each team is given an initial tier placement based on the number of teams within an association at each division. This initial tier place is set forth within the Alberta One Standardized Tiering Grid.

Leagues will schedule a minimum of four tiering games for each team to gauge their competitiveness against other teams. Additional tiering games may be scheduled as needed.

After tiering games, leagues finalize placements using pre-season and tiering game data to create fair and competitive matchups. Tiering is typically completed by mid-November, with regular season play beginning shortly after.

More information can be found here on the Alberta One website.