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Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson

Age
29
Shoots
Right
Height
185 cm
Weight
83 kg
Born
Stockholm, SWE
Draft
2015, round 2, #45 (BOS)

Career · 2 seasons

Games
29
Goals
3
Points
9
TOI per game
11:41
xGF% (5v5)
53.1%
Goals above expected
+0.4

Season by season

The regular-season line for each season, with the total, by team for traded players.

2016–17BOS100008:250–00.087.2%
After a break: 2018–19BOS28369+111:482114.3%12.652.5%
Total1 team29369+111:412114.3%12.653.1%

Form

Rolling averages smooth out single games so the trend shows.

Form, ten-game rolling

Points and individual expected goals per game (left scale), averaged over the previous ten games. Ice time is on the second chart.

Points per gameixG per gameTOI per game (minutes)
00.10.20.30.410152025
11m12m12m13m13m10152025Game

Player card

How 2 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

3rd line

40th percentile among qualified forwards, blending scoring 40%, play-driving 40%, usage 20%.

  1. 1st line
  2. 2nd line
  3. 3rd line
  4. 4th line
  5. Extra / AHL

Scoring

3rd line
  • Goals /600.5330th pct
  • Assists /601.0664th pct
  • ixG /600.4610th pct
  • Goals above expected+0.460th pct

Play-driving

2nd line
  • xGF% (5v5)53.1%81st pct
  • CF% (5v5)49.7%54th pct
  • Relative xGF%+1.065th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.0040th pct

Usage

4th line
  • TOI per game11:4123rd pct
  • PP time share7.4%32nd pct
  • Offensive zone starts74.3%95th pct
  • Quality of competition23.0%11th pct

Percentiles among forwards with 200+ minutes at 5-on-5 and 20+ games. Ratings rank each column's average percentile among the same players and read it as a role on a depth chart (how).

Faceoffs

How often Forsbacka Karlsson wins the draw over 2 seasons, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 405+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

42.1%

96–132 · below the 405 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

42.0%

Opponents won 49.9% of their draws; an average centre would have won 50.1% against them.

Wins above average

−18

Draws won beyond what an average centre facing the same opponents would have won.

Draws per game

7.9

228 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

41%41 · +1.043%49 · +1.937%41 · +3.520%10 · +1.279%14 · +0.356%9 · +0.835%17 · +11.939%18 · +2.341%29 · +2.4Attacking zone →← Defending zone

Win rate at each dot; the small numbers are draws and the xG swing (×100) of winning rather than losing there.

By zone

  • Offensive zone40.0% 36–54
  • Neutral zone45.1% 41–50
  • Defensive zone40.4% 19–28

By strength

  • Even strength42.2% 95–130
  • Power play0.0% 0–1
  • Shorthanded50.0% 1–1

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +32 after a win, −13 after a loss. Each win was worth 2.5 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2016–17250.0%51.7%
2018–1922642.0%41.9%

Finishing

Did the goals match the chances?

Goals against expected goals

Cumulative goals (solid) and individual xG (dashed) through the season. The gap is finishing: above the dashed line, the player scored more than an average shooter would from the same chances.

+0.4 goals above expected

0123510152025Game

Goals above expected, everyone at the same position with 20+ games

−20−100+10+20+30