[Wild About Numbers]: Rolling Cumulative Average Corsi Relative For Wild Defencemen

Just a quick refresher, Corsi Relative (usually just written as Corsi Rel) basically measures the effect an individual player has on his team's overall Corsi performance. It can be used in +/- form or as a percentage (I'm gonna use the latter). Instead of just looking at a players Corsi For% (CF%), we can use CF% Rel to see how he is performing relative to his teammates.

(For more on Corsi Relative and general stuff about Corsi such as why it is important read this)

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-Firstly, here are the important puck possession and deployment stats for each defenceman:

Okay, so I don't really need to go through that table. You can see which guys are doing well in terms of Corsi and you can see who had the tougher deployments/who faced soft minutes. That context is important for what is coming next.

-Here is the rolling cumulative average Corsi rel for the 7 defencemen listed above this season (right-click on the image and select "open link in new tab" to see it full size):

-Here is each player individually along with their linear trendline:

Keep an eye on those numbers over the rest of the season to see if they keep trending in the same direction. I'll be particularly curious to see how Spurgeon does after a lengthy lay-off with injury.

For more defenceman analysis, check out this post I wrote a month ago about dCorsi for the Wild's defencemen.

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