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Originally Posted by Bingo
You can be so sweet ... thanks
Since 16 teams make the playoffs, each stat is compared to the 16th best team in each stat category
The numbers invert, the chart doesn't. Always a + to be above the line.
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Ok, then what does that tell us? It doesn't measure our quality in any absolute terms, as if we played like the 29th best team in the league, but our opponent played like the 31st, then relatively, we could well still end up looking better than than the 16th place team for that sample size of one game. Also, the median team changes from day to day. So what represents 16th place today could be considerably higher or lower than what represented 16th place last week or last month. That will skew the data and make any given game of ours look better or worse than it was. Your baseline just doesn't make sense to me in the context you are using it.
I dunno. I think that if you want to display the data in this format, with an eye toward showing how good or bad the Flames are playing relative to a middle of the pack team, you'd be better off using rolling averages for both what represents the median for those stats and the Flames' performance.