Improve Hockey Standard Deviations
Standard deviations are super helpful, however I suspect that there's some type of error in their calculations. For example, compare Sidney Crosby hits: 14, SD: 0.18 vs Leo Carlsson, total hits: 1, SD: 0.94. Wondering if you could look into this more and fix it. I believe I saw similar issues with SDs for +/- last year too.
Nicky McCloskey
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Thank you for your feedback regarding standard deviations. The standard deviations will not be negative if they are below average. The standard deviation shows how far the number is away from the average in that stat category. In the example that you provided, Sidney Crosby's standard deviation for hits is 0.18. Leo Carlsson's is 0.94. That is just how far they are away from the league average. Carlsson is far from average and Crosby is close to average. Even though Carlsson is well below average in total hits, the standard deviation won't be a negative value.