Now that we’ve agreed upon the best 25 young players in the Sharks organization, we can get excited about who among them will improve most this season. To do so, we’ll reference an NHL player aging curve, produced by the twins behind @EvolvingWild. We’ll also use Manny Perry’s prospect success model. The aging curve model uses a wins above replacement (WAR) measurement, which is helpful because Perry’s model also uses WAR, albeit with different calculations.
We’re going to do some very rough math and apply the NHL player aging curve to some of the Sharks system prospects to see who might show the greatest growth next season.