Aights home now.

Let's look at Eric Staal.

If you look at his z-scores for G, A, +/-, PIM, PPP and SOG, they're -0.4, 0.0, -2.4, 0.6, 0.2 and 0.4 respectively...

So if you amalgamated all of the z-scores for each of categories, you'd get an overall amalgamated z-score of -1.6, so if someone just went with amalgamated z-scores, they'd be whoa Staal's a -1.6, I'm not touching him with a 10-foot pole... It's not entirely accurate, when it's really +/- that's really letting him down. Everything else he's pretty good at, so is the value of 1 category really worth dropping him that much for? I know in H2H I'd definitely take him since he's advantageous to keep for 3 out of the 6 categories and keeps me on pace for 1 more, while hurting me in G and +/-, but gaining an advantage inf 3 of 6 isn't bad really...

With that said, you (FHG) have adjusted the rankings accordingly so 1 stat doesn't dominate which is good, I just ran default Yahoo! settings and Staal came out ranked 9th overall, so that's pretty good value and pretty much what I expected.

I dunno if I did it wrong but I ran Kessel's and he came out with a 57 FHG (18th) rating, which isn't bad either...

I'd still prefer to look at z-scores from an individual category basis, but I would be very hesitant to amalgamate the scores and use them as my only judge of player value...

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