Jim Bob
RIP RJ
https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/what-it-takes-to-build-an-advanced-hockey-stats-site
This is a cool backstory to War on Ice & Corsica.
Thankfully for hockey fans, War on Ice became a meticulous counterpoint to the league's incompetence; just about any analytical tool—from possession numbers to shift charts and shooting maps—that are publicly cited could be traced back to its database. But what grew into an invaluable resource began much more humbly.
"As it happened, we'd already built a lot of the mechanics to collect the play-by-play data beforehand," A.C. Thomas, one of the site's co-founders, explained via email. "Sam [Ventura, another co-founder] and I were on a hockey panel at a statistics conference and we all wished out loud we had far better exposure for our research than the academic sphere offered, so we all resolved that we were going to make a much bigger push to release things publicly. At the time we didn't know what that would be."
This is a cool backstory to War on Ice & Corsica.
