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Originally Posted by Oil Stain
Here's the beef I have with XGA/60...
Lets take the last three years of Chris Tanev. I filtered out D-men who played less than 700 ES minutes btw.
Tanev's ranking in xGA/60:
20/21- 1st out of 129 D-men.
19/20- 137th out of 164
18/19- 72nd out 176
In the span of three seasons Tanev went from middle of the pack, to one of the worst, to the best in the league.
How do you take useful information about a player's ability out of something like that?
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There's not much you can take, except to note that Tanev changed defence partners and then changed teams. It would be more informative to see his WOWYs, but that's a whole ’nother level of complexity and I, for one, don't know the relevant websites well enough to do the homework in a reasonable amount of time.
But when a player is consistently ranked at the bottom of the list, year after year, by a whole group of metrics, it would be lazy not to take
something from that.