Today I want to take at look at four factors that will impact how the Tampa Bay Lightning front office might approach whether to send Mikhail Sergachev back to the OHL or keep him in Tampa — and then I want to try to quantify and weigh them.
Typical discussions of analytics in sports center around the evaluation of players and teams. Analysts try to determine which player or team is better than another, how much a player should be paid, how a player or team is likely to play in the future, etc.