Compare players, 2011-12 season

At a glance

Shane O'Brien Matt Niskanen

On the radar, each spoke runs from the lowest at the centre to the league leader at the rim, among the regulars at his position: forwards against forwards, defencemen against defencemen. The gap between two players on a spoke is the real gap between their numbers. The dashed shape is the typical player. Hover over a dot for the number. The lines are each player's points adding up, game by game.

Where they shot from

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The numbers

Shane O'Brien D, FLA		2011-12	Matt Niskanen D, PHI
	76	Games played	75
	3	Goals	4
	17	Assists	17
	20	Points	21
	0.26	Points per game	0.28
	2	Plus/minus	9
	114	Shots	118
	2.6	Shooting %	3.4
	138	Hits	105
	105	Penalty minutes	47
	19:13	Average ice time	17:56
Five-on-five, while he was on the ice
	53.2	Corsi for %	57.0
	+3.4	CF% relative to team	+3.8
	51.6	Fenwick for %	55.7
	52.9	Expected goals for %	55.1
	+4.3	xGF% relative to team	+1.0
	48.5	Goals for %	56.2
	98.9	PDO	100.1
	202	Shot attempts taken	176
Expected goals, all situations
	4.0	Expected goals	5.9
	0.16	Expected goals per 60	0.26
	2.7%	Chance per attempt	3.3%
	-1.0	Goals above expected	-1.9
Rating, in goals
	+4.1	Goals above replacement	0.0
	+0.7	Wins above replacement	0.0
	+2.7	Even-strength offence	-1.4
	-1.7	Even-strength defence	-0.5
	+0.0	Power play	-0.6
	+0.4	Penalty kill	-0.1
	-2.3	Penalties	-2.0
Contract
	$1.1M	Cap hit	$1.5M
	$55K	Cap dollars per point	$71K
	$2.3M	Worth at the going rate	$491K
	+$1.2M	Value: worth minus cap hit	-$1M

The better value in each stat is highlighted. Stats where more is not clearly better, such as games played, are not judged. Bars show each value against the larger of the two. What the advanced numbers mean