This chart confuses me. Could I get a non-wiseguy explanation?
1. I assume higher is better?
2. What are the yellow dots?
3. Does this mean Chytil was best on offense?
4. Does this mean Borgen was best on defense?
5. Does this mean Miller was best on Team defense, whatever that means?
6. Does this mean Miller was worst on Team Offense, whatever that means?
7. Miller worst on Team defense?
8. Berard was only player who was positive on offense?
Thanks
1. Anything to the right of zero is good and anything to the left is bad. Yes, they're ranked by how good they are overall, going up.
2. The yellow dot is where they landed accounting for both positives and negatives, so that's the most important part. You'll see that the yellow dot goes more positive as you go up.
3. Offense is in the green family and it appears to me that Berard has the most green on the positive side of the chart. That makes sense considering he scored the winning goal.
4. It's hard to say. The lighter people indicates that the Rangers did the best with Miller on the ice, but the darker purple indicates he directly caused chances against. It's either Miller or Borgen.
5. "Team" is a measure of how the team did when that player was on the ice in teams of xG. "Individual" defense would be like, if you had a turnover that led directly to a 0.3 xG shot or whatever. This chart indicates that the Rangers were good when Miller was on the ice but he has one or two obvious errors that led to chances.
6. Yes. It is, after all, Miller, who handles the puck like my grandmother, and she's dead. "Team" is the same as the above, except it's generating xG instead of suppressing it. "Individual" is goals and assists which is why only a handful of guys have dark green.
7. Didn't you ask that already?
8. The top 5 all have more offense in the positive than in the negative, and Cuylle is about even. Granted, they all scored points. Yes, Berard is the only one who "drove" offense. The Rangers had 27 shots on goal and 10 high-danger scoring chances in a 2-1 game. And got outplayed. There was also like what, one powerplay in the game? You're not gonna see a ton of offense on the chart.