Analytics Resources and Glossary

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This is a work in progress - if you have suggestions, please let us know

Analytics Websites:
Hockey Prospectus
Hockey Analytics
Behind The Net
HockeyAnalysis.com

Analytics Blogs:
Hockey Historysis
Brodeur Is A Fraud
Hockey Abstract
Hockeythink
Objective NHL

Data Sources:
Hockey-Reference
Hockey Summary Project
HockeyDB
Hockey Databank Project
The Goaltender Home Page

Tools and Software:
The R Project For Statistical Computing

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This is a work in progress - if you have suggestions, please let us know

Hockey Analytics Terms:

• Point Shares - a method to all of a player's contributions with a single number
• Replacement Level - the ability of the best freely-available player needed to be called up by an NHL team on short notice (think top minor league players or the best available free agents).

 

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I'm adding NHL Numbers, because it's basically where most of the well known ASA bloggers convene.

 

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I just added a "glossary" to the Goaltender Home Page, with a rigorous definition of the terms that are used there:

http://hockeygoalies.org/stats/glossary.html

 

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Here's a good primer on Corsi and Fenwick:

http://www.secondcityhockey.com/2013/12/4/5167404/nhl-stats-made-simple-part-1-corsi-fenwick

And the follow-up, on Score Close and Score Effects:

http://www.secondcityhockey.com/2013/12/12/5204176/understanding-stats-part-2/in/4965327