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Is Connor McDavid Really THAT Good?

","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"html"},{"id":8,"value":"If you ask any hockey fan who the best player in the NHL is currently, they'll tell you it's Connor McDavid — it's not even a debate. But why is this? Is he truly the best player in the League? Well, by analyzing player stats, we will investigate why so many people believe that Connor McDavid is not only the best player in the National Hockey League, but also one of the greatest in **history**.","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md"},{"id":87,"value":"The Data used for all figures comes from https://www.hockey-reference.com/ and https://www.statmuse.com/.","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md"},{"id":28,"value":"

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Figure One

","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"html"},{"id":26,"value":"Using Altair in Jupyter Notebook, we are able to get a bar graph of the top 10 highest scoring players in the NHL:","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md"},{"id":30,"value":"visualization = FileAttachment(\"visualization.png\").image()","pinned":true,"hidden":false,"mode":"ojs"},{"id":33,"value":"This graph shows just how much more the highest scoring player (Connor McDavid) is scoring compared to his peers. No other player has crossed the 100 points mark, and Connor McDavid is already well past that mark. We are truly witnessing something special. The season is still ongoing as well, so the gap might only get bigger from here.","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md"},{"id":43,"value":"_Note: Points are calculated by adding the total number of **assists** and **goals** for each player._","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md"},{"id":35,"value":"

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Figure Two

","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"html"},{"id":38,"value":"In this next graph, I used Excel to create a scatterplot that shows data points of every player and the amount of goals they scored in the 2022-2023 season.","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md"},{"id":40,"value":"goals_scored = FileAttachment(\"goals_scored.png\").image()","pinned":true,"hidden":false,"mode":"ojs"},{"id":41,"value":"In the NHL, goal scorers are coveted and achieving a 40-goal season would be enough for most to consider you an elite goal scorer. However, Connor McDavid has reached 54 goals with 17 games left to go in the season! To put this into perspective, David Pastrnak, considered to be a superstar goal scorer in his own right, has 44 goals. McDavid has 10 more goals than the second highest goal scorer, making him the NHL's leader in both **goals** and **assists**.","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md"},{"id":48,"value":"

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Figure Three

","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"html"},{"id":51,"value":"This next graph was made using visme and compares each Connor McDavid's points per game in each season of his career with the all-time greats. These players include Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux, who many consider to be the greatest hockey players ever. This list also includes Sidney Crosby, who still actively plays in the NHL and is also considered to be one of the greatest players. ","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md"},{"id":55,"value":"goats1 = FileAttachment(\"goats@1.png\").image()","pinned":true,"hidden":false,"mode":"ojs"},{"id":56,"value":"This line graph shows that Connor McDavid, while not reaching the highs of Gretzky, and Mario Lemieux, is definitely still putting up very impressive numbers: his peak career numbers surpass the likes of Bobby Orr and Gordie Howe. However, one very important caveat to all of this is that Connor McDavid and these greats all played in different eras of hockey, and it is difficult to translate what McDavid is doing in the present to the past. Comparing Sidney Crosby, who is easily considered one of the top 10 hockey players of all time is a great comparison to how McDavid is stacking up. As we can see, McDavid is surpassing Sidney Crosby by a significant margin, and he is poised to improve even more.","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md"},{"id":59,"value":"

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Conclusion

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Data and Citations

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