data.3news-bydate.test.rec.sport.hockey.53712 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Derrick M. Jewlal)
Subject: Re: plus minus stat
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Organization: University of Waterloo
In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Roger Maynard) writes:
>From: [email protected] (Roger Maynard)
>Subject: Re: plus minus stat
>Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1993 17:48:28 GMT
>In [email protected] (Roland Dreier) writes:
>
>>Selanne's +7 leads the Jets; Teppo Numminen is +4. Who do you think
>>is better defensively? Ron Francis of the Penguins is +5, although he
>>has 97 points, while Jaromir Jagr has only 87 points but is +30. Is
>>Jagr really better on defense than Francis? And how exactly should we
>>interpret the fact that Mario Lemieux has by far the highest +/- in
>>the league? Does he get the Selke as well as the Ross?
>
>The plus/minus does not measure defense alone. It attempts to measure
>a player's total contribution to the team effort. And certainly, it
>is far from perfect and my posting never implied otherwise. All that
>my posting suggested was that the +/- was a better indicator of a
>player's effectiveness, when examined in the context of that player's
>team's performance, than mere scoring totals alone. And as for Mario
>getting the Selke - why not? After Doug Gilmour, I would rather have
>Lemieux on the ice in any situation (other than as an enforcer, obvi-
>ously) than any player in the game. I used to call the Selke the "Bob
>Gainey Award". It came about as a result of the statement made by
>Anatoli Tarasov: "Bob Gainey is the best hockey player in the world."
>I am sure that Tarasov was either misquoted, originally, or had a tiny
>bit too much Vodka and was toying with a reporter. In any event, the
>NHL decided to honour one dimensional checkers along with one dimen-
>sional scorers. Maybe the league should start awarding the "Doug Gil-
>mour Award" anually to the league's most effective, all-round player.
>
>cordially, as always,
>
>rm
>
>--
>Roger Maynard
>[email protected]
Hey, what about the "Roger Maynard Award" for the most
annoying fan....?
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