On a opponent-adjusted basis, he’s responsible for the #2 faceoff unit in the country so far this year.

The aggressiveness is coming with a cost though as he’s averaging 5.5 turnovers per game so far. If the HPU offense is going to keep up their 41% offensive mark, I think it’s a trade-off Coach Torpey will take a thousand times out of a thousand.

Carraway was their top offensive player last year and he picked up right where he left off against Nova. I doubt he’ll maintain a 57.1% shooting mark all season, but who knows. The Hoyas offense assisted on 75% of their 16 goals, while scoring on 36.4% of their possessions, so I guess anything is possible.

Tyeryar is now the 6th rated active FOGO in D1 MLAX according to my faceoff Elo ratings. And no one has had a bigger move up that table this year. He started the year with a basically neutral Elo rating (1508), but across 3 games and 54 faceoffs, he’s gained 175 Elo points to settle at 1687.

The Elo ratings are designed to adjust to events at a moderate pace. So it’s going to want to see some more games like this before putting him into the truly elite FOGO circle. But this much we can say: no one has made as much of an impression at the FOGO position as Tyeryar.

In 2 games so far, Moore has seen both a career high in shots / gm (11.5) and shooting percentage (34.8%). Now, he’s been a roughly average shooter (.01 excess goals / shot attempt last year) for his career, so whether an increased load for Moore translates to higher efficiency for UVA depends mostly on who those shots are being taken from.

The Terriers offense suffered a pretty steep drop-off last year in Year 1 sans-Chris Gray. They went from a 29.9% efficiency mark in 2019 to just 23.4% in the shortened 2020 season. Fortunately for Boston fans, they looked much more like the 2019 team against the Warriors. Even after accounting for the opponent-adjustment, the 30.6% mark they posted against Murr-i-mack was only shifted down to 29.7%.

Looking at D’Alto’s game vs his 2020 campaign gives at least one clue why. His share-adjusted TO rate was .97 last year, and the Terriers turned it over on 42.6% of their possessions. On Saturday, his share-adjusted TO rate was just .21 and the team turned it over on just 8.2% of their possessions. Makes you wonder if ball security was an area of emphasis for the coaching staff.

His 68.4% win rate is 8th among qualifying FOGOs and he’s seen the 3rd biggest jump in his faceoff Elo rating among any player this year.

On a per-game basis, the Blue Devils are enjoying a +7 possession advantage this year, up from +5.1 last year. The only game where they didn’t enjoy a possession advantage was Denver. And of course, that was the game where Naso only took one draw. In the 3 games that he’s been the primary guy, the possession advantage has been +10.3 for Duke.

2017: 2.07
2018: 2.43
2019: 2.98
2020: 2.79

And as mentioned, he has never had a game with a 5.57 EGA total until yesterday. But the interesting thing about his stat line is how many of those EGA points came from assists (4). His highest per-game assist total was in 2019 (1.2/gm). He’s never been the most accurate shooter, so a shift in his game toward being a creator could be a net positive for the Knights.

Regardless, he was the unquestioned leader of the offense in this one, logging a 19.7% weighted play share mark.

So far, the 66% FO win rate for Bryant is their best mark since 2018, when they won 67.5%. They’ve always been a positive possession margin team, but the +3 mark so far this year, is their best since that season. Thank Laliberte for that.

Repeat this against a team stronger than St. John’s, and he’ll really get people talking.