This post originally appeared on Hockey Graphs. Luca Sbisa may be one of the players who best epitomizes the divide between the old-school, eye test view on hockey and the statistics-focussed analysts offering their opinions from their mother’s basements on fan…
Yearly Archives: 2015
Sbisa, the Sens, and the Scramble: Evaluating Defensive Play Following a Shot Attempt
Tagged with: Defence, Follow-Up Shots, Luca Sbisa, Scramble, Shot Attempts Against
Posted in Defence
Posted in Defence
How can we measure a goalie’s rebound control? Examining Pekka Rinne and James Reimer.
This post originally appeared on Hockey Graphs. Pekka Rinne is good at controlling his rebounds. I know this, because people on the internet have made their opinions abundantly clear. Scouts and fanalysts alike credit Rinne’s quick glove hand with helping…
A New Way To Measure Deployment – Expected Faceoff Goal Differential
This article originally appeared on Hockey Graphs. Zone starts are not that great of a metric. Although certain players do tend to be put out almost exclusively for offensive or defensive purposes, the reality is that for most players’ zone starts have…
Why teams should use 4 forwards on the powerplay
A few days ago, James Mirtle of the Globe and Mail brought up one of the first significant shifts in tactics under the Mike Babcock regime in Toronto. Parenteau playing as fourth forward on Leafs PP and scores. New look…
Historical Player Projections – Available Now at Dobber Hockey
Over the last few years, Hockey Analytics pioneer Rob Vollman has been putting out a book of scoring projections using historically comparable players to calculate a player’s best case/worst case/average scoring totals. His method is really interesting and yields a lot of great…
Tagged with: Dobber, Fantasy Hockey, Nearest Neighbour, Projections
Posted in Fantasy Hockey, Predictions
Posted in Fantasy Hockey, Predictions
Examining The Drivers of Score Effects I: Shooting and Save Percentage
Score effects – they’re real, and they’re spectacular. And while the idea and impact of score effects are generally understood by most in the hockey analytics community, they can often be a difficult subject to introduce to newcomers to the…
Tagged with: Save Percentage, Score Differential, Score Effects, Score State, Shooting Percentage
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Posted in Score Effects
Predicting Free Agent Salaries
With the NHL draft behind us, attention across the hockey world has turned to July 1st, when unrestricted free agents will be free to sign with the team that will give them the best shot at winning a cup the…
Puck++ Playoff Prediction Challenge – Round 2 Results
With round 2 of the playoffs wrapped up and a few days of rest penciled into the schedule, there’s no better time to check in on how the entrants in the Puck++ Playoff Prediction Challenge are doing. As a reminder…
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Puck++ Playoff Prediction Challenge – Round 1 Results
With round 1 wrapped up and the division finals now underway, it’s time to take a look at how the entrants in the first ever Puck++ Playoff Prediction Challenge performed. The table below has each entrants total score (using the…
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2015 Playoff Predictions
After three seemingly never ending nights without hockey, the playoffs are finally upon us, with the Habs and Sens, and Caps and Isles set to kick off the postseason tonight at 7. As in years past I’m going to be…
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