morehockeystats
Unusual hockey stats
I tried to look for data about which players were in the penalty box when a PPG was scored, and couldn't find it. There used to be a feed that had it, but I think it was discontinued; it was since 2010 anyways, and I wanted to look at least twenty years back.
So, if the mountaine will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will goe to the mountaine, as the proverb goes. I scanned the reports from 1999 to yesterday (2/11/2018) myself. Why 1999? Because it's actually a part of a bigger research that requires on-ice data for scored goals. In general, I can do it all the way back to the start of my dataset which is the 1987/88 season. Maybe I'll do it.
So after a few days of hacking and with several manual corrections the resulting data is on my website:
The page with the disclaimer.
Direct link to the JSON.
There are a few errors detected and also a few questions that arose when parsing the source data:
Errors - the following goals SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN PP goals, or the offending penalty is not listed:
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Questions:
So, if the mountaine will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will goe to the mountaine, as the proverb goes. I scanned the reports from 1999 to yesterday (2/11/2018) myself. Why 1999? Because it's actually a part of a bigger research that requires on-ice data for scored goals. In general, I can do it all the way back to the start of my dataset which is the 1987/88 season. Maybe I'll do it.
So after a few days of hacking and with several manual corrections the resulting data is on my website:
The page with the disclaimer.
Direct link to the JSON.
There are a few errors detected and also a few questions that arose when parsing the source data:
Errors - the following goals SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN PP goals, or the offending penalty is not listed:
| Game NHL ID | Score after goal | Scorer |
| 1999020756 | 1-0 | J. Langenbrunner |
| 2008021010 | 2-1 | M. Samuelsson |
| 2008021199 | 3-3 | M. Schneider |
| 2016020276 | 2-1 | J. Larsson |
Questions:
- If there's a scrum that results in: 1 minor to team A, player X, 3 minors to team B, - 2 to player Y and one to player Z, is there a strict matching penalty rule? I.e. should the final tally be one double minor to Y (5v4/2+2min), or 2 minors to Y and Z both (5v3/2min)?
- Is it correct that "Match Penalty" used to imply a 5 minute major PP, but the major penalty it was not explicitly written in the protocol? When did it change? Was it so for 'Game Misconduct' and/or for 'Misconduct' penalties?
- A player gets: 1) Instigator, 2) Fighting, 3) Misconduct, 4) Game Misconduct at the same time. There is NO penalty called on the opposing team (fighting penalty with no opponent!). It looks like the resulting penalty is 5+2, but it's not the case any more, right? If so, when did it change?
