Wednesday night, Alison and Matt sat down (sans Sam) to record a stats primer episode. You’ve seen us discuss shot metrics on the blog. For this episode, we wanted to try to lay some common ground, some justification about the stats we use on the site. Less CBJ talk than normal, but hopefully you will find this a useful way to start thinking about shot statistics, shooting percentage, and goalie performance.
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As a blog, we want to be open about why we reached our opinions, and what tools we use. If any of this has caught your interest, we’d love to continue the dialogue.
Some articles we’ve discussed in today’s episode:
- Tore Purdy (JLikens) on shot differential predictions
- Eric Tulsky at NHL Numbers, showing how shot differential relates to scoring chances
- Eric Tulsky on SB Nation’s Outnumber on how to forecast goalie performance
- Nick Mercadante at SB Nation’s Blueshirt Banter on a new goalie metric
- Eric Tulsky, Geoff Detweiler, Robert Spencer, and Corey Sznajder on how zone entries and exits can impact team performance
Resources we mentioned in the podcast, where you can access and play with numbers
- Hockey-Reference.com
- Natural Stat Trick
- Corsica
- HockeyStats.ca
- HockeyViz
- stats.hockeyanalysis.com or Puckalytics
- Hockey-Graphs.com
We also pointed toward some outstanding written introductions to hockey stats. Here they are:
- An Introduction to Fancy Hockey Stats by Jibblescribbits
- The Faker’s Guide to Advanced Stats in the NHL by Sean McIndoe (Down Goes Brown)
- The collected articles at SB Nation’s Outnumbered by Eric Tulsky
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