Surprise, surprise, I was bored again this morning and figured I'd take on a project for the season. My goal is to track each players xGF at 5v5 for each game. I'm interested to see if there is a correlation between what the eye test says, production (goals/assist) and see if it can give an idea of when a player maybe about to get hot.
Here is the first one I threw together through the first 3 games. I have every player, but I choose these ones because they each were interesting to see in their own way. The dotted red lines are the upper and lower limits. If a player is outside of those lines then they were really good compared to the team (above) or really bad (below). So far the lower limit has been 0.00 or less so no one has fallen below.
So some interesting things to notice (again this is all 5v5 hockey)
Marchand - Was at 0.00 xGF in his first two games, which isn't a surprise since Marchand has 0 SOG at 5v5 for the first two games (that's a surprise)
Ritchie - Monster xGF game 1 and was above the upper again for game 3. He ranks #2 right now on the team in xGF for the season
Smith - Didn't play game one, but you can see his line trending up
Krejci - Doesn't feel like he's really been that much of a threat, but G1 he was right around team average and games 2 and 3 he was above the upper limit.
Bergeron - I have him in here just cause he's Bergeron lol.