Analytics in Hockey

Hey guys, I thought I'd post some of the Puck Possessed issues I have been working on lately, and see if people are interested. My goal is to visualize hockey data and analysis in a way that general fans can understand and enjoy. I also want to make sure the comic style pages perk some interest...

As per request from @Ripshot 43 before the season started, I have been reviewing every goal against in the league on every night since the season started. Early on, I made the mistake of not just making a chart with every goalie to play this year and keeping track that way. So the other night, I...

I found this kind of interesting. Based on a very small sample, but might worth keeping an eye on. New York seems to have gotten much better defensively, but also seem to be very opporunistic, scoring at an average level despite being the worst team at creating High Danger scoring chances 5v5...

Goaltending. That’s right, that one little thing that can bail out a slacking team at any given night – and on the other hand, it has the power to ruin everything your skaters have done right in a matter of minutes. This past year, the top 10 goalies had an impact of 27 to 15 GSAA (goals saved...

Hi there, I've compiled the data about goalies regular season Z-Score (# of standard deviations above the mean), because I couldn't find it on the internet or here on forums (it seems that some data was lost in migration). Z-Score is IMHO the best tool for measuring goalie dominance over his...

I've taken draft class data from 2003 to 2016, with career games played and points, and cup winners from 2004 to 2018 to give a visual representation how each Draft Class compares to each other as well as give a breakdown of which teams have accumulated the most amount of First Liners/Top 4...

I thought it would be fun to measure the "value" of a Stanley Cup, year-by-year, as determined by the number of teams competing for it. This idea came about when I was thinking about how the 1950s Habs 5-straight Cups weren't as impressive to me as say; the Hawks 3-in-6. The reason is that I...

As a computer science major and huge fan of hockey, I’ve been looking for ideas for a side project to combine the two interests. Although I have no expectations for this project to produce anything useful, I think it will be a good exercise in data science and will give me a reason to learn...

When "corsi" became a buzz word in hockey, there was definitely a revolution in the types of players teams would employ. Gone were the lumbering defensive defensemen who couldn't move the puck - it was adapt or get out. Gone were many floating goal scorers who let their linemates do all the...

For statisticians.... I have put together a spread sheet which compares all teams league wide with a Bradley-Terry comparison model. Details of the model can be found here: http://sites.stat.psu.edu/~drh20/papers/bt.pdf or, less mathematical rigor on either USCHO or Collegehockeynews.com...

I would like to share with you team rankings based on the ELO rating system. This is purely mathematical based on wins and losses. Each team has a score. That score increases or decreases based on wins and losses. The amount of change is based on the score of the opponent. Eg. If a strong team...

MOD EDIT: Posts 1 & 2 were moved from the Past Studies thread to reduce clutter in that thread. Please see post 3 for the actual beginning of this thread. I studied the "with or without" effect (team results when player participating in game, vs when he didn't) for all players during all the...