WestCoastExpress94
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- Mar 17, 2018
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Aside from shot supressions, what advanced stats in particular are evaluated to determine if a player is good defensively?
Well not a big one but dZS%. Defensive zone starts. If they're in the %65-75 range they're used defensively more often that other players. It would be a good starting stat to add onto others.
what about on ice save percentage?
I'd think SH/TOI would be key. Though not "analytics" per se, it's pretty indicative of defensive acumen most times.
You might want to adjust it in some way to PIM. You can't kill penalties from the sin bin.One thing to note about dZS% and SH/TOI is that they're not measures of defensive performance/acumen, they're measures of player usage.
Now, generally speaking, coaches aren't idiots and defensive usage is heavily correlated with defensive quality, but there's several things that can confuse those measurements.
If the coach doesn't really care about matchups and purely rotates lines on a fixed schedule, you won't have anyone with a high or low dZS%. A "good" PKer will receive much more icetime on a team of scrubs than he will on a team of elite PKers.