With just one game remaining, we can use our monthly dose of “what we learned” for March and treat it as a mini team preview for the playoffs. The next few items will show us what we might be able to expect from this team when the games start to matter.
(Potentially) Predictive Metrics Are Looking Up
In a bit of new research, Draglikepull finds that 5v5 scoring chances (as Natural Stat Trick defines them) might be more predictive than 5v5 shots of future goal scoring. As the article states, intuitively, that makes some sense.