I just discovered I only had the data up until late January, so that isn't for the full season. I will have to rebuild the data-retrieving program I used, so it will take a while to get the right numbers.
Yeah, i was wondering if i was wrong, or if there was something weird with the data i have...
5-on-5 : 2.28
4-on-4 : 2.65
5-on-4 : 5.84
4-on-3 : 10.1
5-on-3 : 20.7
I'm just thinking about how long it would take to do a study like this manually... For each team, you'd have to go game by game to calculate total minutes spent up one man (accounting for powerplays ending prematurely) and total minutes spent 5 on 5 (removing time played 4 on 4, 6 on 5, etc). Maybe this would take 30 seconds per box score, but that would take about 41 minutes at that pace to do just ONE team's entire season.
It would still be interesting to see, but maybe if someone built a script to bring the data in we could get some concrete figures to talk about. I'm most interested in seeing of the team with the best PP% (as traditionally calculated) has the largest leap in 5on4 efficiency vs 5on5 efficiency, which I suspect is not the case.
Rank | Team | 5-on-5 goals/60 | Pos. in the Standings |
1 | Pittsburgh | 2.91 | 4 |
2 | Boston | 2.88 | 7 |
3 | Detroit | 2.77 | 9 |
4 | Philadelphia | 2.68 | 6 |
5 | Tampa Bay| 2.62 | 21 |
6 | Chicago | 2.57 | 10 |
7 | Ottawa | 2.56 | 16 |
8 | Vancouver | 2.47 | 1 |
9 | Winnipeg | 2.39 | 22 |
10 | Phoenix | 2.38 | 11 |
11 | Nashville | 2.33 | 5 |
12 | Toronto | 2.32 | 25 |
13 | Buffalo | 2.31 | 19 |
14 | Rangers | 2.28 | 2 |
15 | Dallas | 2.27 | 18 |
16 | Washington | 2.27 | 15 |
17 | Montréal | 2.25 | 28 |
18 | San José | 2.18 | 12 |
19 | Anaheim | 2.15 | 26 |
20 | Edmonton | 2.13 | 29 |
21 | Carolina | 2.12 | 23 |
22 | New Jersey | 2.10 | 8 |
23 | Saint-Louis | 2.10 | 3 |
24 | Colorado | 2.06 | 20 |
25 | Columbus | 2.05 | 30 |
26 | Calgary | 2.02 | 17 |
27 | Islanders | 1.96 | 27 |
28 | Florida | 1.90 | 14 |
29 | Los Angeles | 1.84 | 13 |
30 | Minnesota | 1.71 | 24 |
Rank | Team | 5-on-4 goals/60 | PP% Rank | PP% |
1 | San José | 7.20 | 2 | 21.1 |
2 | Nashville | 7.19 | 1 | 21.6 |
3 | Edmonton | 7.15 | 3 | 20.6 |
4 | Vancouver | 6.93 | 4 | 19.8 |
5 | Islanders | 6.82 | 8 | 18.5 |
6 | Philadelphia | 6.77 | 6 | 19.7 |
7 | Pittsburgh | 6.67 | 5 | 19.7 |
8 | Florida | 6.25 | 7 | 18.5 |
9 | Colorado | 6.23 | 9 | 18.4 |
10 | Toronto | 6.20 | 10 | 18.4 |
11 | Winnipeg | 6.19 | 12 | 17.9 |
12 | Ottawa | 6.15 | 11 | 18.2 |
13 | Boston | 6.14 | 15 | 17.2 |
14 | Calgary | 6.09 | 13 | 17.7 |
15 | Anaheim | 5.90 | 21 | 16.6 |
16 | Carolina | 5.87 | 20 | 16.7 |
17 | Saint-Louis | 5.80 | 19 | 16.7 |
18 | Detroit | 5.74 | 22 | 16.1 |
19 | Buffalo | 5.66 | 16 | 17.0 |
20 | Washington | 5.59 | 18 | 16.7 |
21 | New Jersey | 5.42 | 14 | 17.2 |
22 | Rangers | 5.21 | 23 | 15.7 |
23 | Tampa Bay | 5.17 | 25 | 15.2 |
24 | Los Angeles | 5.06 | 17 | 17.0 |
25 | Minnesota | 5.04 | 27 | 15.1 |
26 | Columbus | 4.86 | 24 | 15.5 |
27 | Chicago | 4.84 | 26 | 15.2 |
28 | Dallas | 4.68 | 30 | 13.5 |
29 | Phoenix | 4.42 | 29 | 13.6 |
30 | Montréal | 4.32 | 28 | 14.3 |
Is it clear enough ?
The difference (standings-wise) between PP% and the goals scored per 60 mins is not that big, i thought we could have seen some differences in the rankings, but it seems that its not the case.
San José and Edmonton are improving with the same jump : +5.03 goals/60.
Then you have Nashville and the Islanders at +4.86, and Vancouver at +4.45. Over +4.00 are also Florida, Colorado, Philadelphia and Calgary.
Under +3.00 are Detroit, Rangers, Columbus, Tampa, Dallas, Chicago, Montreal and Phoenix.