All data points are in similar positions relative to their teammates. This might as well be a team defensive stat that might, but probably doesn’t, give an insight to a teams style.
It probably is heavily impacted by their goaltenders and offensive players as well.
Each team has different injuries, coaches, schedules, and we have just enough data to maybe begin guessing things you could probably see with your eyeball.
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As much as I’d like our entire team to be fully r/TopRightMessi in every way, the reality is we’re just not quite there yet. That’s okay. I think for one thing we’re going to get better throughout the year as this team adapts and grows. We have major new faces are defensive parents, and also our running a new system, if you will, defensively, in terms of how we use transition and breakouts. Going to take a little time for us to settle in, with all the new faces we had, including a brand new coach, so it’s totally new to the organization, I think it’s to be expected that we’re going to see some statistical measures that aren’t ideal. Other than the fact that seider isn’t absolutely pouring in the points, I haven’t seen a lot of positional play that is extremely concerning. Most of what we struggled with is getting our matchup set properly on the road, and I think it’s put a lot of pressure on our defense. We’ve done well at home, but we’ve got a couple of matchup issues that have been exploited on the road and it’s cost us some goals.
Overall, I wouldn’t read too much into stuff like this. Even if we take it at face value as raw numerical analytics and assume that expected goals for and expected goals against are the way to measure defensemen, this basically just says we’re around average in terms of being a fairly safe team, and maybe a little bit on the low end of that. Which, honestly, is about where I expected us to be.
TLDR- interesting, doesn’t really say much to me at this point though.
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All data points are in similar positions relative to their teammates. This might as well be a team defensive stat that might, but probably doesn’t, give an insight to a teams style.
It probably is heavily impacted by their goaltenders and offensive players as well.
Each team has different injuries, coaches, schedules, and we have just enough data to maybe begin guessing things you could probably see with your eyeball.
As much as I’d like our entire team to be fully r/TopRightMessi in every way, the reality is we’re just not quite there yet. That’s okay. I think for one thing we’re going to get better throughout the year as this team adapts and grows. We have major new faces are defensive parents, and also our running a new system, if you will, defensively, in terms of how we use transition and breakouts. Going to take a little time for us to settle in, with all the new faces we had, including a brand new coach, so it’s totally new to the organization, I think it’s to be expected that we’re going to see some statistical measures that aren’t ideal. Other than the fact that seider isn’t absolutely pouring in the points, I haven’t seen a lot of positional play that is extremely concerning. Most of what we struggled with is getting our matchup set properly on the road, and I think it’s put a lot of pressure on our defense. We’ve done well at home, but we’ve got a couple of matchup issues that have been exploited on the road and it’s cost us some goals.
Overall, I wouldn’t read too much into stuff like this. Even if we take it at face value as raw numerical analytics and assume that expected goals for and expected goals against are the way to measure defensemen, this basically just says we’re around average in terms of being a fairly safe team, and maybe a little bit on the low end of that. Which, honestly, is about where I expected us to be.
TLDR- interesting, doesn’t really say much to me at this point though.