Measuring Lightning Players by Goals Above Replacement (GAR)

Last week, @DTMAboutHeart published a series introducing his Goals Above Replacement (GAR) metric . If you enjoy reading about numbers and analytics, I can’t recommend strongly enough that you read his work at hockey-graphs.com. He’s done an excellent job of taking what could be a complicated topic and explaining it in an accessible way. He also provides links to previous work so that anyone can understand his methodology and thought processes. The series is presented in five parts that began on Monday and ended today.

Just in case you don’t have time to read the background work, I’ll do my best to provide a brief overview before diving into the Lightning’s numbers. If you follow baseball,…