(New Blog Repost:) nhlscrapr: An R package whose purpose is right there in...
(Originally posted at comment.acthomas.ca, April 29, 2014) In putting together the game data from the NHL for the games we needed, my students and I (namely Sam Ventura) have been trying to dig through...
View ArticleHOWTO: Use nhlscrapr to collect NHL RTSS data
When Sam and I built the R package nhlscrapr we did it with the idea that only one person would have to do all the annoying prep work of building the tools to acquire and process the data, and that any...
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The Road to WAR (for hockey), 2: All Rate Now
Summary: In which I introduce the use of multiple factors to produce the rates of events that occur in hockey. The main purpose and major obstacle of single-number summaries is finding a common...
View ArticleJSM Hockey Panel 2014: (rough) audio added
This past Wednesday we had our first hockey panel at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Boston which I chaired. We taped the proceedings for general circulation — and by “taped” I mean “recorded on my...
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The Road to WAR (for hockey), Part 3: Shot Quality Assurance, plus A Bonus on...
Note: on my whiteboard I’ve got this lined up as a 9-part series. See here for Part 1, Part 2. I swear we’ll getting to player-measured WAR real soon, but it won’t make sense without these building...
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The Road to WAR (for hockey), Part 4: You can’t spell “An Incremental...
Through the previous three parts of this series, I’ve outlined the history and problem of finding a single catch-all statistic, why rates are an effective means of capturing this, and how I’ve chosen...
View ArticleThe Road to WAR (for hockey), Part 5: Getting Goals Above Baseline
Measuring WAR is as much about context as it is about performance. Since our goal is to value measures that are predictive of future performance, a team that plays against strong opposition should be...
View Articlewar-on-ice.com is now live!
Our new hockey statistics website is now live at war-on-ice.com. It’s still in the beta stage, but we’ve got a lot there. A more comprehensive series of write-ups will follow as we continue to grow the...
View Article…and we’re back!
Well, I learned something this week. Amazon is great for backups of sites if you remember to make them.
View ArticleBlog decisions
The last 6 weeks of blog time have been occupied by the construction of war-on-ice.com, and that’s also given my work in hockey a better home. From now on, I’ll be keeping my hockey-related blogging on...
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