1. Statistical Analysis of the Best Players to Ever Play in the NHL
Presented: January 18/2007

2. In my project I compared the career statistics of 8 NHL players.
Wayne Gretzky - Steve Yzerman
Mario Lemieux - Jaromir Jagr
Sidney Crosby - Alexandre Mogilny
Alexandre Ovechkin - Joe Sakic
Brendan Shanahan - Mats Sundin
The following graphs I have made will compare the statistics of the veteran players all who have played at least 15 NHL season to the rookie seasons of Crosby and Ovechkin.

4. Graph Analysis:
Find IQR of Best Season:
IQR=
= 62
This value measures the spread of the data and shows that the middle 50% of the data lies in this range.

6. Graph Analysis:
The graph compares the point totals of the players top 5 seasons, it shows how good Lemieux and Gretzky were. Their averages are points higher than the average of 6 of the NHL best players to ever play.

8. Graph Analysis:
Mean: 332/8 = 41.5
Standard Deviation: 14.7
These numbers tell us how consistent the players were at scoring goals.

10. Graph Analysis:
This graph shows how effective each player is at scoring goals on a shots/goal basis. It also shows that a player like Ovechkin is a very dangerous player because with a 8.17 shots/goal ratio it tells me he shoots often and from everywhere. This makes it hard for goalies to predict when he will shoot.

12. Graph Analysis:
This graph shows us why all these veteran players were great goal scorers in their careers because took a lot of shots. All of them took at least 1250 shots in 5 seasons that’s an average of 250 shots per season.

14. Graph Analysis:
This graph shows me how effective each of the players were in a game to game basis because it tracks the points/game of each of the players. Lemieux was very effective in this season because he had the highest points/game ratio.

15. Conclusion:
Through my collecting and analysis of NHL statistics I have learned just how good players like Lemieux and Gretzky really were. I don’t think we will ever see their records be broken even buy Crosby or Ovechkin but you never know.

16. Thank You For Listening.
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