[MrButtons]

Originally Posted by Five-hole

Is there a primer somewhere on how to read these charts? It seems like "bar right = good; bar left = bad" but I'm sure there's more to it than that.

Here you are (NSFW just cause it's long)

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Individual offense (teal, far left in legend):
Direct offensive contributions from the player himself: shots, goals, primary assists, playmaking attempts.

Team offense above average (cyan):
How much the team’s offense improves when that player is on the ice versus when he’s off. Think zone time, shot quality, scoring chances generated while he’s deployed.

Individual defense (dark purple):
The player’s direct defensive impact: breaking up plays, limiting shots against, recovering pucks. Negative values mean he’s directly bleeding chances.

Team defense above average (lavender/light purple):
How much the team’s defense improves when he’s on the ice versus when he’s off. So if the group allows fewer shots/chances with him out there, this is positive.

PP above average (light aqua/grey-blue):
Contribution to the team’s power play compared to average. Positive = helps drive PP results; negative = PP worse with him on.

PK above average (light grey-violet):
Contribution to the penalty kill compared to average. Positive = better suppression on PK with him; negative = worse.

Actual GameScore (empty outlined box):
The player’s raw GameScore from the game, without QoT (quality of teammates) or QoC (quality of competition) adjustments.

QoT/QoC Adjusted GameScore (gold square outline):
Their GameScore after controlling for who they played with and against. This is the fairest comparison number.