After showcasing how much the Wings’ have leaned on their top pair of late last week, I wanted to take a step further and see how Moritz’s Seider defensive zone usage compares historically to other #1 defensemen. I took all defensemen since 2007-2008 who have played >500 5v5 minutes with a team in a season and then ranked the defensemen on each team by percentage of available minutes played to determine “defenseman rank” on each team. From there, I plotted the percentage of shifts (all situations) that start in the offensive zone vs. the defensive zone for each team’s #1 defenseman.
This whole “analytic models show Seider is bad actually” episode makes me question just how mature hockey analytics actually are. Seider is extremely good and ain’t no graph gonna convince me otherwise. I watch the games.
This whole “analytic models show Seider is bad actually” episode makes me question just how mature hockey analytics actually are. Seider is extremely good and ain’t no graph gonna convince me otherwise. I watch the games.