Helton, Veldman, Fennig, Jezierski, and Decker lead teams to early wins
April 3, 2025 by Paul Würtztack in Analysis
The WUL just completed the second weekend of its nine-week regular season, the PUL begins its 10-week regular season this weekend (potentially with weekly stats this year), and the UFA will soon kick off its 13-week schedule. That’s a lot of overlapping action to cover, even for a major operation like BBSM. To keep up, we’ll let the data do more of the talking and limit our commentary to certain topics.
Therefore, for the weekly updates, we’re going to focus on two tables. The first is the EDGE Top 20, which will feature the players with the highest single-game net production on the weekend, measured in goal equivalents (GE). However, as an integrator of counting stats, EDGE often reflects how much offensive playing time you had, with predominant O-liners getting more possessions than D-liners, and O-liners on losing teams getting more possessions than O-liners on winning teams.
E100 is the rate stat that standardizes EDGE values based on possessions, but because our only defensive measurement is blocks, and E100 does not extrapolate the value of blocks beyond their specific GE value, the average offensive rate (EO100) is four times that of the defensive rate (EB100). We think that’s the right approach for overall impact, but if we want a snapshot of “who had a great game,” a 4-block performance stands out because it’s so far above average, regardless of the GE value relative to offense. That’s the purpose of E16, which we last employed in 2023 to help standardize offensive and defensive value in a rate stat, and which will again serve as our best single-game complement to EDGE.1
As we get deeper in the season, we will add season EDGE and E100 totals to the line-up, with Player Efficiency Ratings coming in very late in the season given the data requirements. For more WUL stats, visit their Stats Hub.
In E16, we divide opponent possessions (OpPos) by four to standardize the rate of GE accumulation between blocks and offense; we also base it on 16 possessions instead of 100 to more closely reflect typical possession rates for single games. The simple calculation: E16=(EDGE*16)/(Pos +(OpPos * 0.25) ) ↩
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