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The most disappointing players are those who are assigned the most favorable playing opportunities and yet completely squander them. That's why we are using player usage charts (see below), which graphically portray how players are being used, to choose the 10 players, excluding goalies and rookies, who are off to this young season's most disappointing starts.
These players are starting primarily in the offensive zone (the horizontal axis), against generally average competition at best (vertical axis) and yet are putting their teams at a huge shot-based disadvantage relative to everyone else -- the bubbles are sized and colored according to the extent of that shot-differential disadvantage (negative differential is red, positive is blue).
Player usage charts measure three critical factors:
• The percentage of shifts they're starting in the offensive zone (the horizontal axis).
• The competition they're facing during those shifts (the vertical axis).
• How they are producing during those shifts (the size of the circle around a player's name).
Based on their playing conditions these are the top 10 players who are letting their teams down the most so far this season.
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Howe and Why (02/18)
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