Pre-season "Season Preview" - scoring race

alko · 02-26-2023, 12:11 PM

Season Preview is shows sometime weird players.

For example this. One of the top 3 Art Ross Trophy favorites is a player, who had in last season only 26 points in 74 games. Also his stats from previous seasons are very week.

reverist · 02-26-2023, 09:53 PM

And yet he's four stars?! What's the percentages on talent from stats vs. talent from ratings? Or whatever that terminology is. I wonder if it's largely a star issue for scoring race, and if stars are driven by ratings significantly more than stats.

JeffR · 02-27-2023, 03:26 AM

Yeah, that's exactly what it is - I had to dig through some really old design documents to find it, but I think what happened there was that the original plan was to have that line be a reference to the MVP contenders, so it used the overall rating to choose 3 players. But then it got changed to split it into top scorers and top defencemen/goalies, but the criteria didn't change. I'll switch that to a better measurement.

02-26-2023, 12:11 PM	#1
alko Major Leagues Join Date: Aug 2020 Posts: 476	Pre-season "Season Preview" - scoring race Season Preview is shows sometime weird players. For example this. One of the top 3 Art Ross Trophy favorites is a player, who had in last season only 26 points in 74 games. Also his stats from previous seasons are very week. Attached Images

02-26-2023, 09:53 PM	#2
reverist Major Leagues Join Date: May 2020 Location: Murfreesboro, TN Posts: 312	And yet he's four stars?! What's the percentages on talent from stats vs. talent from ratings? Or whatever that terminology is. I wonder if it's largely a star issue for scoring race, and if stars are driven by ratings significantly more than stats.

02-27-2023, 03:26 AM	#3
JeffR FHM Producer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Kelowna, BC Posts: 17,231	Yeah, that's exactly what it is - I had to dig through some really old design documents to find it, but I think what happened there was that the original plan was to have that line be a reference to the MVP contenders, so it used the overall rating to choose 3 players. But then it got changed to split it into top scorers and top defencemen/goalies, but the criteria didn't change. I'll switch that to a better measurement.