01-10-2023, 03:24 PM
(01-10-2023, 01:55 PM)Kammrath Wrote: So DP's on/off numbers tell me he is being used GREAT by this coaching staff. Not being asked to do too much or put in a position where he cannot flourish. SD's on/off numbers tell me the exact opposite. The role and way SD is being used is not working for the TEAM (even if his individual counting stats look good).
I mostly like this take. A good plus/minus in a certain role doesn't mean it will translate to a different role. These are not plug-n-play numbers, but instead are context dependent. Perhaps Powell as a backup does well in plus/minus because he only has to face backups, or because he plays with certain backups whose games complement his.
Nor do Powell's numbers tell us how good he objectively is (or isn't) in general. It's informative that we see a player with a great plus/minus on one team might be traded, and it becomes awful, or vice versa. They only tell us what happened in a certain context.
Of course the goal isn't to find the best way to make Powell's plus/minus or on/off the best possible, but rather the team's as a whole. A different use that saps his score, but that improves his direct replacement's, might be a much better overall result for the team.
But they are a hint to seeing if there is a perhaps a problem that can be improved by combining your players in a better way, to be sure.