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Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
I think people have shown coupled with all the other stats the -38 wasn't a fluke. If he was -15 you could call it a fluke or not representative of his play, but he is with players right at the bottom of the league and those players are on lottery teams.
49.2% isn't the worst but it is underwater. The high number of blocked shots not all 5v5 mind you, and the negative xGF show a player that was in his end defending a lot more and allowing a lot more. Yes, it is a 5-man unit, but D are usually responsible for the breakout and getting pucks up and helping sustain pressure on the other end.
It also 1 player with a considerably higher +/-
We all celebrated when Johnny, Matthew and Lindy set records in +/- but now its a useless stat.
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I've never celebrated a plus minus stat. There's way too much noise in the data.
You explain - if Bahl and Andersson play 75% of the time together at ES why doesn't his +/- track that. He presumably is on the ice for the same goals for and against. The stat says he's not, so where is the discrepancy? It's not explainable by anything other than luck or Andersson playing the other 25% with partners that are much much worse.
This fascination with +/- seems to me to be an attempt to justify not liking the player.
The 49.2% is "not the worst" all right. In fact, while it's underwater, that's where the team was in differential. It's one of the better Corsis on the team among pairings. The only pluses are either super sheltered pairs or Weegar/Andersson.