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Originally Posted by HighLifeMan
Both Richardson and Lewis are bottom 10 in the league among players with 100 minutes played (Richardson last) in relative CF%, relative xGF%, relative HDCF%, and relative SCF% at five on five. Yes, they struggle immensely.
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I'm a bit of layman, but aren't 'relative' stats relative to their own teammates (therefore meaningless to compare with other 4th liners)?
In actual CF% (min 10 gp) I see Richardson 29th from bottom among forwards. Lewis 71st from bottom. Pitlick about 170th from bottom.
Assuming an even distribution of the worst 96 regular players you'd expect to have one the bottom 32, another in the bottom 64, and another in the bottom 96.
xGF 5v5 per 60, xGA 5v5
Richardson 7th worst, 215th worst
Lewis ~120th worst, 75th worst
Lucic ~143rd worst, 235th worst
So, Richardson is undoubtedly a bottom feeder...perhaps that's the reason he's played the fewest games and least TOI amongst Flames "regular" forwards (aside from Brett Ritchie with 9 fewer games and 30 secs less ATOI).
Lucic, Dube, Lewis, Pitlick don't seem particularly better/worse than comparable 11th, 10th, 9th, and 8th forwards...