I have been looking at goaltender point shares lately. This is a system devised by Justin Kubatko of hockey-reference.com to try to give credit for team wins to individual players on the team. I find the offensive portion somewhat successful because offensive stats are not too difficult to isolate. The defensive and goaltending portions are not as good. Defence is harder to evaluate on the individual level. This system estimates how many goals a team prevented when compared to a replacement level team and then shares those goals out via ice time and position. Although it should be clear that some players on some teams are more important to defence than others of the same position, this is not something this system can assess. As a result, goaltending and defensive point shares are too dependent upon games played and not upon goaltending and defensive success. The best players will be underrated and have some of their shares given to lesser players on their team, who are th...
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