Brad Treliving waived Valimaki. His 2022 with the Flames was just incredible blunders. Good riddance
Also Bouchard-Ekholm play with McDavid the vast, vast majority of the time. When you put all the best players on your team in the ice together, obviously their relative numbers will look better. Relative numbers are misleading more often than not, only in certain situations are they actually illuminating.Those are sort of interconnected, aren't they? If Bouchard-Ekholm is on the ice while all the goals are being scored, some other pairing - let's say Nurse-Ceci - needs to be bleeding goals against. Or the other way around. So each end of the list is sort of reserved for defenders on not so well-balanced teams.
Because Gostisbehere is probably the worst Dman defensively in the league#8 Olli played on the literal most sheltered pairing in the NHL this past season.
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Heavily skewed towards offensive players who have good linemates. Hurts actual good defencemanAs typical, advanced stats can be manipulated to tell any narrative. Carlo at the bottom? Brutal statistic.
I will never understand people who do things like post a “top 10” list with a run of Gudkas-Dumoulin-Maata smack in the middle, and not take a step back to ask whether maybe the list is meaningless.
Yeah, everyone is shitting on this stat, but that f***ing tracks lol135-Ryan Lindgren... Why im not surprised?
Top 10 are Dman who are well above their peers in positive impact and bottom 10 are the biggest liability for their team.
I mean compared to the other Dman on the Ducks, he definitely was a positive veteran force. The others were either bad or inexperienced rookies.
While rel xGF% has big issues your example does not really support your concern. It is very possible that a player with a 45%GF on a 40% GF team is much better than a 51% GF player on a 58%GF team.Relative xGF%? A pretty useless stat.
A player with a 45% GF on a 40% GF team would be considered better than a 51% GF player on a 58% team.
It is possible, but its not a guarantee. Its just a silly stat that doesn't show much of anything wihout context. Whats the QOC for example? TOI? On its own rel GF% says nothing.While rel xGF% has big issues your example does not really support your concern. It is very possible that a player with a 45%GF on a 40% GF team is much better than a 51% GF player on a 58%GF team.
I fully agree context matters. And I also do not like rel GF%.It is possible, but its not a guarantee. Its just a silly stat that doesn't show much of anything wihout context. Whats the QOC for example? TOI? On its own rel GF% says nothing.