Quote:
Originally Posted by Poe969
How can you give out a bunch of decent grades and say overall they're a D? And Stempniak has been a surprise but he's got 16 points and that's an A? I guess if your marking based on their contract and what they produce but the overall decent grades are kind of mind bottling...
|
The grades are relative to expectations, and I used B as "as expected", which I think is fair to individual players. (Meeting expectations is good.) I guess I should have said that. Stempniak gets an A easily on that scale. Clearly better than what I expected. Maybe my expectations for him were just lower than yours.
As to the team grade, if the system worked perfectly (which it won't), in a situation where you'd have about equal amount and quality of players overperforming and underperforming, the team should be about average in total.
On my grading, most guys are getting passing grades and about a third of the team is below that, and only one guy gets above that line.
More importantly, the guys not delivering are the important ones; 2 of our top 4 D, 2 of our top 3 scorers and most importantly, our starting goalie.
The starting goalies performance alone will drag any team up or down the standings, this shouldn't be news to anybody.
But to put it another way; The Flames suck even when playing at around potential. The situation is worse than people predicted, but it's not on any one player. The team is just built even worse than I thought.
Honestly I could upgrade the team grade to C, since I'm not really that surprised that they are where they are right now. But I feel that being dead last has to get a special mention.