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Originally Posted by mikephoen
One thing I always dislike about this sort of analysis is that no two players are the same. A guy can be 6'0 like Dustin Brown and throw hard hits with great frequency or a guy can be a 6'6" back up goalie. Size and weight alone don't tell much of the story when it comes to a team's physicality on the ice.
It also treats everyone the same when calculating the average regardless of how much ice time they get or what situations they play in. Boston for example is a 'bigger' team than the numbers would indicate because Chara is a monster and is on the ice for 25+ minutes a game. Krug is bringing the average down, but he plays 5/6 even strength minutes plus power play time where size isn't as important.
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This is why seeing the data the way it is helps paint the picture of each team's make up. You can see by position how teams lineup. This is a great way to show the data and you can make your own deductions about each team and the outliers on each team are quite obvious.