I can’t recall a player falling off quite as fast and as hard as Skinner and it brings up questions about his usage over those two seasons. The contract was projected to provide positive value about 40 percent of the time. They had to keep him, and they did! Finally! At the time, my model viewed it as a slight overpay, placing him closer to an $8 million player over the life of the deal, but when a team loses out on players often they have to take what they can get.
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The team has been spurned by free agents in the past and Jeff Skinner looked truly electric in his walk year, scoring 40 goals next to Jack Eichel. This is a tough one to stomach for Sabres fan. Vlasic’s rather steep decline the last two seasons has him projected to be below replacement level next season. But age comes for every player at some point. Vlasic was at or above that level for most of his career. 1 defender who can provide around 1.6 wins. At $7 million AAV, the goal is a borderline No. Vlasic’s value comes from his defensive ability and at his best he would’ve been able to live up to the contract’s expectations. That’s not the case anymore as he was epically caved in this past year. Vlasic plays some of the league’s toughest minutes, but he also used to win those matchups.
In 2018-19, he was the Sharks’ worst defender at 5-on-5 at driving play and that’s continued to be the case. But that changed the moment he started making big money. Like Doughty, Marc-Edouard Vlasic had a long history of being a top pairing defender. This was another controversial call last season but it also looks more prescient one season later. He’s only getting worse going into his 30s, so that negative surplus value compounds further as the years go on. So say what you will about the model being wrong or about Doughty still being good – the issue is that it takes a lot of suspension of disbelief to say he’s anywhere close to being a top five defender. There are only five defenders projected to perform above that mark next year and Doughty isn’t one of them. At $11 million AAV, the expectation is 2.6 wins on average over the next seven seasons and 2.75 wins this upcoming season. 1, it’s that he’s paid to be one of the league’s very best defencemen. But what makes his contract the league’s worst is not that he’s not projected to be a top pairing defender, or even a true No. It’s now two straight seasons Doughty hasn’t played like a legitimate top pairing option and it’s fair to wonder if that version is ever coming back. That’s a sizeable gap and it was a similar story the year prior when Doughty was a 44.3 percent, last among Kings regulars. With a 47.7 percent expected goals rate, Doughty was only better than Kurtis MacDermid among regular defenders … and the rest were above 50 percent. Some might argue it’s because the team around him stinks, and that’s fair, but part of the reason it stinks is because the best players aren’t looking the part when they’re on the ice. There was hope for a bounce-back the following season and while he was better, it wasn’t by enough he was worth 0.5 wins per 82 games, still only second pairing quality.ĭoughty simply doesn’t push play anymore. In 2018-19, he was worth 0.1 wins, and it’s what caused his standing to plummet. He was only a year removed from a 60-point season and had finished second in Norris Trophy voting. When I did this exercise last year, having Drew Doughty on the list, let alone at No.
So here it is, a look at the 10 worst contracts in the league, along with some honourable mentions. Contract clauses and bonus structure are important, but not considered with this assessment. What players have already done holds no merit, this is about the future value of the deal.
The list of best and worst contracts is based on those two factors (with twice as much weight being placed on surplus value) looking outwards. Surplus value compares what they make with what my model believes they should be making, while positive value probability measures the certainty that a player will perform above his cap hit. The way that’s measured comes from comparing a player’s GSVA and the expected salary that comes with it to the current contract a player possesses.
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