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How about placing a meaningful bar for us plebs instead of celebrating zone entries. For the balance of the regular season, how many points constitutes fair value for a $6.9M cap hit?
For the balance of the regular season, how many points constitutes fair value for a $6.9M cap hit?
If I understand right points aren't as important as analytics???
I really don't get the ongoing thing here. I get some people think that by puffing out their chest and getting mad at slumping players they consider themselves to be holding players accountable or whatever but everyone wants Nylander to score, there's really no way to force it and he's playing well enough that benching him would neither help Nylander or the team. So if Nylander doesn't hit some sort of arbitrary standard for good value then what?
You may have heard that William Nylander has been in a slump since he returned to the Leafs just less than a month ago. In that time he hasn’t found the back of the net once, and has just two assists through 11 games played. Because of that, people are freaking out, going as far as saying he should have been traded instead of signed, all that kind of stuff.Toronto fans going insane? Nah, couldn’t be.Anyway, while Nylander’s offensive struggles have started to make headlines, going as far as teammates having to declare they’ll do anything to help him find twine, it’s worth looking at how the Leafs have done as a team since he’s come back into the fold. There’s a spoiler here: They’re good.
The current crop of analytics is a huge step up from Stone Age stats like +/-. But it will soon be far surpassed by a whole suite of real-time-tracked movement stats for every skater on the ice. You can be sure that a system like this, https://wisehockey.com/, now being rolled out in Finland, will be adopted and adapted by the NHL (probably on its own proprietary basis).
Quote from: Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate on January 03, 2019, 12:01:29 PMThe current crop of analytics is a huge step up from Stone Age stats like +/-. But it will soon be far surpassed by a whole suite of real-time-tracked movement stats for every skater on the ice. You can be sure that a system like this, https://wisehockey.com/, now being rolled out in Finland, will be adopted and adapted by the NHL (probably on its own proprietary basis). This stuff is going to be cool and all sure and I'm sure there will be some useful information but I also think a lot of it is just going to be filler/noise. Knowing a players heart rate at all times or how fast he passes the puck really isn't going to tell us which players help a team win the most.
So if Nylander doesn't hit some sort of arbitrary standard for good value then what?
It's interesting, in the 400,000 post thread about Nylander prior to the signing, points per game was an entirely relevant statistic brought up countless times for Nylander's comps. Now, it's an aribitrary standard.