Individual Point Percentage for 2011-12: Defensemen
Scott Reynolds
October 23 2012 08:44AM
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A couple of weeks ago, I began my look at individual point percentage by checking out the results for forwards during the 2011-12 season. Over the next few days, I'll take a few different looks at the individual point percentages of NHL defensemen, and we'll once again begin by looking at performance during the 2011-12 season.
AHL Salaries 2012-13 - Opening Night Rosters
Scott Reynolds
October 20 2012 03:13PM
One of the things that the salary cap is supposed to do in the NHL is provide competitive balance. In the AHL, there is no salary cap, which results in the top-spending teams having a payroll almost twice as high as the bottom-spending teams. Because many of the best players in the league (i.e. players on entry-level contracts) still have their salaries restricted (the current maximum for a player on his entry-level contract is $70,000), a team's payroll isn't exactly the same as its quality. Still, all of these teams are filled out by veterans, and the teams who spend more have a major advantage.
Individual Point Percentage on the Power Play (2008-2012)
Scott Reynolds
October 16 2012 07:59AM
Over the few days I've been talking about individual point percentage (i.e. the number of times an individual player gets either a goal or an assist compared to the number of total goals-for scored while he's on the ice) during five on five play. Of course, there are also a significant number of goals scored on the power play, and so today I'll be looking at the individual point percentages for forwards at five-on-four.
Individual Point Percentage for 2008-2012
Scott Reynolds
October 15 2012 09:06AM
Late last week, I wrote about individual point percentage, and specifically about the individual point percentage of forwards during five-on-five play in the 2011-12 season. As a brief refresher of the concept (for those who don't like clicking through), individual point percentage is a calculation of the number of times an individual player gets a point (either a goal or an assist) relative to the number of total goals scored while he's on the ice. So, for example, if a player is on the ice for fifty goals-for during five-on-five play over the course of the season and he gets a point on forty of them, his individual point percentage would be 80%.
The idea is that this statistic will tell us which players were driving play in the offensive zone. One of the problems is that, because of the small sample size at the level of the individual season (no player was on the ice for more than 87 goals-for), the results are swamped by luck, which is how you end up with Kyle Brodziak and Matt Halischuk finishing second and third respectively. In order to move the conversation forward, I think we need to have a better sense of how players do over several seasons, which should help to deal with the sample size problem, and give us a sense of what a reasonable range of looks like.
Individual Point Percentage for 2011-12
Scott Reynolds
October 12 2012 09:38AM
The 2012-13 season was to have begun yesterday. It didn’t. That’s mostly extremely annoying, but one of the silver linings is an ability for me and get around to doing some things that we had perhaps intended to finish earlier. One of those things for me is calculating the individual point percentages for the 2011-12 regular season.
