WPEF Rankings (1997-2008)

"What is WPEF?", I hear you ask

If you read my blog last week, commiserations. You will, hopefully, at least have some understanding about what the figures below represent.

If you missed/ignored/read but got extremely confused by that blog, I suggest taking a glance first (LINK).

As a simplified explanation, WPEF (Weighted Point Efficiency Factor) is a measure of how well a player scores points taking into account:

• Number of minutes that player gets to play
• How those minutes and the points the player gets are split between even-strength, powerplay and short-handed situations (PP points being less valuable or well-earned than ES points, which are in turn less valuable than SH points)
  

You could see WPEF as the number of points per game a player achieved if they had played exactly 20 minutes per game all at even strength.

After looking at player rankings through the mid-point of this season, the figures below cover the top individual WPEF seasons (WPEF over 0.9 - only where the player scored at least 20 points) looking at every NHL season from 1997/98. Yes, that does mean looking at over 8,500 individual player seasons. I'd post the whole lot, but that would probably not be of much interest.

Anyway to the excitement...