Comments on: Nerdy Stats Update

By: quisp

quisp — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:55:59 +0000

Ice-time affects everything (obviously a player who gets 20 minutes has more chance to get into the flow than a player who plays 5), but GFON/60 takes TOI into account by prorating a player’s production over a sixty minute time-frame. That way, the number levels the playing field in terms of sheer minutes, but not in terms of the differing effect of having 25 shifts as opposed to 3.

By: DougS

DougS — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:34:36 +0000

Brown, with his “shoot just to see what happens” approach probably relies a lot on blind luck for goal-scoring. And I don’t mean that as a criticism, because I think his willingness to shoot just to create loose pucks in front of the net is very useful, like having a point shot on the wing. But I think it quite possible that luck will inflate or deflate his scoring numbers more than most forwards.

Wouldn’t GFON also be a function of how much ice time you’re getting?

By: quisp

quisp — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:21:15 +0000

But it makes intuitive sense, since (1) he gets huge minutes, and (2) he’s a little reckless/sloppy, as we know. He’s been playing better of late, I think (especially last night). And there have been games where he’s followed a goal-causing screw-up with a game-winning effort (the recent shoot-out…).

Frolov, also not surprising.

Brown, though, that’s not good.

By: Keith Korneluk

Keith Korneluk — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:18:09 +0000

Wow, that is a high margin of goals-against for Johnson at 27. That’s 9 more than everybody else!