Rock Paper Scissors
Faceoffs aren't a ladder. A centre who owns one rival can be owned by a third, who then gets owned by the first. Here is every NHL draw this season, centre against centre, and the loops where nobody is on top.
A beats B beats C beats A
Every leg needs a clear winner and a minimum number of draws.
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The busiest centres, against each other
Read across: the row's record against the column. Numbered columns follow the row order.
Who owns whom
The 30 players who took the most draws. A nemesis is the opponent who beats him by the widest margin; a victim is the one he beats by the widest margin.
How it's counted
Every faceoff in the NHL's play-by-play names a winner and a loser. Add them up across every finished regular-season game and each pair of players has a record. Only finished games count, and a game is added once it's final.
Small samples lie, so a matrix cell is only coloured once two players have met a few times, a nemesis or victim needs more draws than that, and so does every leg of a loop. The thresholds are shown above each section. Faceoff wins also depend on wingers, linemen and luck: a loop is a fun fact, not a law.