Now that all the entries are in (42, one was a double), I figure I'd throw some stats!
- Only 9 players were picked outside the 'big 5' of CAN, FIN, RUS, SWE, USA - Rossi (AUS); Mysak, Has, Teply, Svozil, Kubicek (CZE); Stutzle and JJ Paterka (GER) and Inaki Baragano (SUI). Stutzle was picked 23 times (will be fun to see how that goes with Germany having so many players missing games due to COVID), Rossi and Mysak 10 each, the rest all 5 or less. Slovakia is the only unrepresented country (they usually have a one-off or two but not this time I guess!).
- Stutzle (24) was also picked more often than all 5 of the Czech Republic (20) picks combined
- Following the analysis I did pre-tournament, there were 8 players on more than 80% of the rosters. Drysdale, Lundell and Holtz (40), Amirov, Askarov, Broberg and Kaliyev (38), and Sanderson (35).
- The most represented country is Canada (210 picks out of 924, 22.7$), followed closely by the USA (204, 22.1%), then Russia (173, 18.7%), Sweden (153, 16.6) and Finland (128, 13.9%).
- The country with the most players picked is also unsurprisingly Canada (18), which I imagine is caused in part to scrambling to figure out their goaltending (both Garand and Levi picked), and the Dach injuty. USA and Finland both have 16 players picked, and Russia and Sweden each have 14. See point 1 for the other 4 countries.
There were 6 goalies picked, with Yaroslav Askarov (38) and Spencer Knight (29) leading the charge. Levi (8) and Garand (2) represent Canada, and Alnefelt (5) and Wallstedt (1) represent Sweden. Interesting that there's only 10 goalie picks from Group A (CAN, FIN, SUI, SVK, GER), so I wonder how many points were lost from the tough competition in group B (RUS, SWE, USA, SZE, AUS), but we're here to find out!.
Everything can be found here, as usual:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tyH5BHA9aKeXgsnCbZc-bep7S_KGYMNMlqEuGayD7EU/edit?usp=sharing
Standings has the Standings, 'Entries' has each team individually listed in case someone wants to harvest that data, and 'Stats' is where I put in the information.