TSN announces Hockey Analytics coverage

[Kevin Forbes]

http://www.bellmediapr.ca/Network/TSN/Press/TSN-Launches-TSN-Hockey-Analytics

Travis Yost, James Mirtle and a larger role for Scott Cullen to cover analytics.

Yost will get a column, Mirtle will appear on Leafs regional broadcasts and Cullen will apparently continue some of what he's doing.

Whatever happened to the That's Hockey Tonight Stats Guy (@TH2NSTATSGUY) who seemed to completely misunderstand advanced stats?

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[BeardyCanuck03]

They better add an analytics stats database on TSN.ca

 

[Micklebot]

They better add an analytics stats database on TSN.ca

That's a good point; would be funny to see their colums pointing to other websites all the time.

All the analytics hirings this year gives the credibility needed to justify a fancy stats section to their site. They also have the financial backing to do it right as the incremental cost to do so would likely be minimal for them.

 

[Caeldan]

So that's where Yost went.

 

[Hivemind]

They better add an analytics stats database on TSN.ca

That's what I was hoping for when I saw the thread title.

 

[wgknestrick]

They better add an analytics stats database on TSN.ca

They already had some pretty good data with their player contribution/ratings for the last several years (but it wasn't search-able). I would not doubt that they expand on it. They did "hide" it under the fantasy hockey section though.

I can't seem to find it now though............indicating that it may be "under construction."

 

[hatterson]

Frankly I'm not thrilled with having Mirtle on the broadcasts. To me, he's always been an example of how us 'fancystat guys' shouldn't act. He seems very condescending and often ignores key context.

Granted some of that may be due to the 140 character limitation on twitter where he often says stuff, so perhaps with more time he'll be better able to express it.

 

[wgknestrick]

Frankly I'm not thrilled with having Mirtle on the broadcasts. To me, he's always been an example of how us 'fancystat guys' shouldn't act. He seems very condescending and often ignores key context.

Granted some of that may be due to the 140 character limitation on twitter where he often says stuff, so perhaps with more time he'll be better able to express it.

We have to take the good with the bad. There is always going to be people we don't like mis-talking about and misusing things we love.

 

[Kevin Forbes]

Frankly I'm not thrilled with having Mirtle on the broadcasts. To me, he's always been an example of how us 'fancystat guys' shouldn't act. He seems very condescending and often ignores key context.

Granted some of that may be due to the 140 character limitation on twitter where he often says stuff, so perhaps with more time he'll be better able to express it.

James actually had a decent post about this recently on his personal blog:
http://mirtle.blogspot.ca/2014/09/a-word-on-our-words.html

 

[AndrewGForbesTHW]

It'll be a good segment for folks that aren't AS familiar with most of the advanced statistics.