Washington Capitals hire Tim Barnes (Vic Ferrari) as analytics consultant.

[CanadianSuperPromise]

@FriedgeHNIC: Vic Ferrari RT @CapitalsPR Washington Capitals have hired Tim Barnes as an analytics consultant.


Huge hire by the caps, managing to nab the godfather of hockey analytics. His site http://vhockey.blogspot.ca/ is no longer unfortunately.

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[Jag68Sid87]

Why does this guy have two names? Witness protection? Part of the mob?

 

[Hivemind]

This explains why the vhockey blog has been private the last couple weeks. The Capitals were the last Metro team without an analytics department. I'm thrilled they managed to land Barnes.

 

[Sam Spade]

Why does this guy have two names? Witness protection? Part of the mob?

http://www.cbc.ca/sports-content/hockey/opinion/2014/08/in-search-of-vic-ferrari.html

Lots of good stuff in this article.

 

[Jag68Sid87]

http://www.cbc.ca/sports-content/hockey/opinion/2014/08/in-search-of-vic-ferrari.html

Lots of good stuff in this article.

Thanks.

 

[GKJ]

A few months ago, we didn't even know his name.