neverwatchthegames
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- Feb 22, 2023
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I know its just daydreaming at this point, but I'd love to see the directional and temporal components of shooting talent. Time from catch to release, and body motion vector relative to puck release. So much of high skill shooting seems to be wrapped up in these timing and body position factors. Also target visualization from screened position. It would be so fascinating to get a fully chipped up (jersey, stick, puck) World Cup or something to get a peek at some of this stuff.The bolded greatly interests me, I believe I asked in another thread if any models existed like this.
In my head it doesn't seem like it would be impossible to do using a combination of individual shooting% for each different shot type/positions and league average shooting% for those same types of shots/positions. I would think by doing this you can then start to apply a sort of "weight" on each shot based on what each individual does with each shot type and position on the ice compared to what the average player does from that same spot.
Obviously there is a lot of work to hone in the accuracy of such a model, but I look forward to some of these much smarter people working towards this.