Using Data to Understand Hockey
My life status is changing. My wife was able to take early retirement and in conjunction with that I have decided to join her in retirement (or at minimum semi-retirement) life. So that means some changes to TheStanleyCap.com. The Background When CapFriendly.com shut down a few years ago I began to think about whether I … Read more
Last week I wrote about SportLogiq and its Expected Goals model and how it compared to public expected goal models. I just wanted to expand on that a little by comparing four public expected goal models and how they performed over the past 5 seasons. The most rudimentary method to evaluate an expected goals model … Read more
This post on Twitter the other day really sent me down a rabbit hole for a good portion of the past two days. I think evaluating and comparing models is both interesting and valuable. Where do models differ? Where are they the same? Do the differences expose potential biases in one or both models? However … Read more
So, I have just rolled out Puckalytics 2.0. I am starting small but will grow over time. My goal with my new Puckalytics site is not to recreate what you can find on other sites like Natural Stat Trick or Evolving Hockey or what I had on my stats sites before I joined the Calgary … Read more