A look at some different stats of S69

[studentized 166]

Parsing the full play-by-play of games is slowly getting easier for me and so with it means that some more stats can be tracked (that the VHL index doesn’t do). I was interested in seeing how my player was performing in a few of these aspects and decided to just extend the results to every team last year for a small write up.

 

The stats I looked at are: net takeaways, shot deflections, posts hit, defensive zone exits, and offensive zone entries.

 

I’ve talked about how I calculate takeaways and giveaways in an earlier media spot (see here if interested), so I won't rehash that discussion. Deflections and posts hit are pretty self-explanatory as well so that only really leaves zone entries and exits. I will briefly explain how I calculated zone changes in this article. 

 

There are only a couple of play-by-play sentences where zones are mentioned in the sim that I could find:

 

1. Sentences like “Pass to Player A in neutral/home team/away team zone”

2. Sentences like “Player B carries the puck into the neutral/home team/away team zone”

3. Sentences like “Player C dumps the puck in the home team/away team zone”

4. Sentences involving things like Icings, face-offs, etc.

 

For my calculations I’ve excluded cases 3 & 4. This is more or less consistent with some of the definitions of zone entries in hockey analytics from what I can gather. In particular, when the sim mentions dumping the puck, I do not constitute that as a zone entry in my calculations since these are almost always recovered by the opposing team. I suppose I could have tracked these as a separate metric if anyone is really curious but I didn't care enough about it for my player.

 

Ok, to the definition. A zone exit occurs when the puck moves from defensive zone to neutral zone and a zone entry occurs when puck moves from the neutral zone into the offensive zone. As far as who gets credited with the zone entries, I’ve probably made some assumptions that are not standard in hockey analytics (not actually sure about this but zone entries seem like a stat typically looked at a team or line level vs how i’m doing it i.e down to a specific player). I opted to go the route of allowing “half” entries in cases where two players are involved in the play. For example, in case 2 above, Player B would get attributed one (whole) zone entry because they carry the puck in themselves. But for case 1, because it’s a pass involving two players, I will have attributed a 0.5 (half) zone entry to each player involved; the player passing (parsed from the previous by play sentence) and the player receiving (Player A in my example).

 

Ok so let’s look at the numbers. First and foremost is New York.

 

New York

 

Best turnover differential: Lance Flowers (+247)

Worst turnover differential: Soren Jensen (-241)

Most deflections: Keven Foreskin (55)

Most posts hit: Boris the Forest (13)

Most offensive zone entries: Lance Flowers (876.5)

Most defensive zone exits: Lance Flowers (772)

 

A theme you’ll notice in this is that defensemen will often lead the team in zone entries and often times forwards do better with zone exits. This might seem a bit counter intuitive at first and I’m not sure if it bares a ton of realism to the NHL, but the numbers don’t seem too outrageous to me (I’m no expert on these types of stats, however).

 

For New York, the numbers paint a nice little picture for sophomore defenseman Lance Flowers @CowboyinAmerica. His point totals dropped a ton this year from his rookie season, but it was in no way a down year for the guy. He lead the team in the turnover battle and zone entries/exits. That’s a huge part of the team that might go unnoticed to anyone not reading the full play-by-play. Similarly for Boris, who had a better year on paper, the 13 posts he hit suggest he just needed a little more luck to get even better results. Reminder to aim for the net next year @chillzone

 

Ok, now for the rest of teams (sans analysis because I only cared enough about New York). Only tagging league leaders here since otherwise too many people would be mentioned, and I'm already not huge on tagging folks normally.

 

Vancouver

 

Best turnover differential: Brock Louth (+224)

Worst turnover differential: Denver Wolfe (-386)

Most deflections: Julius Freeman (93) *league leader* @rjfryman

Most posts hit: Julius Freeman/Denver Wolfe (13)

Most offensive zone entries: Diljodh Starload (977.5)

Most defensive zone exits: Diljodh Starload (831)

 

Seattle

 

Best turnover differential: Leph Twinger (+332)

Worst turnover differential: Acyd Burn (-233)

Most deflections: Dan Wilinsky (53)

Most posts hit: Scott Greene (11)

Most offensive zone entries: Hulk Hogan (1007)

Most defensive zone exits: Hulk Hogan (834.5)

 

Toronto

 

Best turnover differential: Rusty Shackleford (+338)

Worst turnover differential: Orion Slade (-343)

Most deflections: Rylan Peace (72)

Most posts hit: Orion Slade (11)

Most offensive zone entries: Elasmobranch Fish (1112.5)

Most defensive zone exits: Tzuyu (928.5)

 

Calgary

 

Best turnover differential: Brady Stropko Jr (+233)

Worst turnover differential: Chico Smeb (-405)

Most deflections: Roll Fizzlebeef (59)

Most posts hit: Chico Smeb (11)

Most offensive zone entries: Charlie Paddywagon (1234.5) *league leader* @DMaximus

Most defensive zone exits: Charlie Paddywagon (1017)

 

D.C

 

Best turnover differential: Piotr Jerwa (+463)  *league leader* @majesiu

Worst turnover differential: Mikko Aaltonen (-548) *league leader* @GRZ

Most deflections: Mikko Aaltonen (41)

Most posts hit: Benny Graves (10)

Most offensive zone entries: Luciano Valentino (987.5)

Most defensive zone exits: Mikko Aaltonen (975)
 

Riga

 

Best turnover differential: Guy Sasakamoose (+407)

Worst turnover differential: Ryan Kastelic (-310)

Most deflections: Elias Dahlberg (70)

Most posts hit: Elias Dahlberg (17) *league leader* @Nykonax

Most offensive zone entries: Apollo Hackett (1091.5)

Most defensive zone exits: Ryan Kastelic (907.5)

 

Moscow

 

Best turnover differential: Edward Vigneault (+320)

Worst turnover differential: Dan Baillie (-244)

Most deflections: Jet Jaguar (81)

Most posts hit: Dan Baillie (15)

Most offensive zone entries: Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen (1178.5)

Most defensive zone exits: Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen (937.5)

 

Helsinki

 

Best turnover differential: Sidney Crosby (+368)

Worst turnover differential: Julian Borwinn (-358)

Most deflections: Kronos Bailey (81)

Most posts hit: Julian Borwinn (14)

Most offensive zone entries: Julian Borwinn (941.5)

Most defensive zone exits: Guillaume Fontenette (904.5)

 

Malmo

 

Best turnover differential: Condor Adrienne (+365)

Worst turnover differential: Jake Davis (-287)

Most deflections: Phil Marleau (72)

Most posts hit: Ryan Sullivan Jr (11)

Most offensive zone entries: Jerry Garcia (1043.5)

Most defensive zone exits: Jerry Garcia (893)

 

Prague

 

Best turnover differential: Cinnamon Block (+327)

Worst turnover differential: Willie Dredge (-261)

Most deflections: Erik Draven (69)

Most posts hit: Alex Pearson (12)

Most offensive zone entries: Wolf Stansson Jr (948.5)

Most defensive zone exits: Wolf Stansson Jr (857.5)

 

Davos

 

Best turnover differential: Basaraba Moose (+169)

Worst turnover differential: John Madden (-335)

Most deflections: Jerry Wang (59)

Most posts hit: Brendan Plunkett/John Madden (7)

Most offensive zone entries: John Madden (1066.5)

Most defensive zone exits: John Madden (1165.5) *league leader* @Thranduil

 

Let me know if anyone wants full data for their team/player or if there are different metrics you want to see in a future post. For now just gonna keep adding stuff as it interests me.

 

Gonna make a double claim out of this too if I can.

[GRZ 179]

Atleast Mikko leads the league in something....

[chillzone 231]

Goat article here @studentized !

[Cxsquared 455]

On 1/13/2020 at 8:32 PM, studentized said:

Most offensive zone entries: Apollo Hackett (1091.5)

@Renomitsu I think I found your scoring problem. Apparently your strategy is enter the zone and pass to the net.