EP: Throughout this post, I’ll use “qualcomp” to describe both QoC and QoT because “QoC/QoT” is tiresome.
Though we may not like to admit it, the hockey analytics collective has yet to crack the qualcomp code. The public sphere has yet to produce an agreed-upon method of weighing the impacts of QoT and QoC and the latter is sometimes dismissed outright. Traditionally, TOI-weighted averages are employed to determine the mean talent of teammates and opponents. The talent component may differ – 5v5 TOI% and Corsi being among the most common. On Corsica, three brands of qualcomp are offered: TOI%, CF% and xGF%. A wrinkle is that each teammate’s CF% or xGF% is calculated from the time they spent playing without the player in question. This ensures that the measured quality of a teammate is independent of the impact a player has on them. Despite this advantage, the methodology is imperfect. Namely, it introduces what I’ve come to label the Sedin paradox. Continue reading “Bootstrapping QoT/QoC and the Sedin Paradox”