They’re all amazing players, but O’Reilly is clearly the superior defender of the three. EA gives him a 93 Defensive Awareness, which is very good, but it’s also the same as Connor McDavid and just one point higher than Leon Draisaitl. Ryan O’Reilly is a Selke winner and will probably be in the running for the award for the foreseeable future. Right now, good players are too similar since they need to have solid ratings everywhere in order to get high overalls. They need to show the uniqueness of each player. The biggest takeaway from the exercise is that I believe player attributes are in need of a shake-up. Now, are the ratings I came up with perfect? Of course not.

I also spent many hours tweaking player attributes and seeing how each rating affects the final overall. Over the last few months, I’ve seen a lot of numbers in this whole exercise. Instead, I’ll discuss how the current overall system could be changed and upgraded in future NHL titles. In the final part of this 5 part series, I go away from numbers-heavy analysis. Using Sportlogiq data, I decided to rework the overall system and assign new attributes to every NHL player based on their real-life performance. With the hockey world going into lockdown in March, right as the playoffs were about to kick off, I turned to EA Sports NHL 20 for my hockey fix.

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