Rookie Wall
Rookies start hot, then the schedule, the travel and the scouting reports catch up. Here are the top rookie scorers' points per game month by month and over their last ten, so you can see who's hitting the wall.
Month by month
Bars are points per game each month. Hatched months had too few games to count. The strip is every game: one bar per point, with the line showing the five-game average. The shaded part is the last ten.
Fine print
The field is the top rookie scorers with at least a handful of games. Trend is points per game over the last ten games minus the season rate. Fading is 0.2 or more below, heating 0.2 or more above.
The season opened in late September; those games count as October. Ten games is a small sample, and a cold stretch can be bad luck as much as a wall. For the Calder race itself, see Calder Watch.