Defense men play in pairs. If I understand this correctly, two players playing identical shifts should have identical corsi.
So Brodie's time while Gio was out injured should account for the majority of the difference between them.
If you pair two good defense men, the combined result should be greater than the sum of the parts as each improves the other. Similarly a poor defense man would pull down the corsi of a good one. I can see where interpreting these numbers could get very complex.
What do Brodie's numbers look like away from Gio? Without an extended time of Gio playing without Brodie can we even extrapolate Gio's numbers away from his partner?
Seems to me that these corsi numbers for defense men are better seen as the pairing rather than the individual.
How do our other pairs stack up?
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