Quoting: Saskleaf
What stats go into this chart thing?
People always post these things, but they have no meaning to me. Can you explain why Marner has been "lucky" but Gaudreau "unlucky"?
These charts are based on RAPM (Regularized Adjusted Plus-Minus). Basically there is a whole **** load of math using statistics, standard deviation, and what not that determine things like Goals For (GF), Expected Goals For 9xGF), Corsi For (CF), Expected Goals Against (xGA), and Goals Against (GA). As well as many other things but those are the main ones.
The above chart is based on a players 5v5 ice time results per 60 minutes of play, as you can see Marner had a very high GF/60 but his xGF is quite a bit below that meaning he scored more than he theoretically should have based on the offensive chances created. On the other hand Gaudreau had a higher xGF/60, that means that Gaudreau scored less than what was expected of him based on the chances he created this year. This was very likely due to playing nearly all season with a dysfunctional Monahan and an AHL plug.
To further dive into what I mean by that, when Gaudreau was moved to a line with Lindholm and Tkachuk towards the end of the season he had 22 points in those 16 games which is a 113 point pace