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Using Game Score to Grade the First Quarter of the Islanders Season

Happy Thanksgiving Week! Most teams are approaching the quarter pole mark of the season, and as they have played 19 games, the Islanders are no different. Off to a fairly surprising 10-7-2 record, Barry Trotz has led the Isles to second in the Metropolitan Division amidst a ton of talk about PDO and luck.

This will be the first of four report card pieces for the year based off of player performance versus their cap hits. For this, I created “Game Score Efficiency,” which is the differential of actual game score and expected game score per dollar.