The data revolution, and how it can inform decision making in fantasy hockey.

The talk over the last year has been about advanced stats. There are various categories and formulae. Each has a reason or defined purpose in mind. Without arguing against any of the methods you can say that they are trying to measure the performance of players and from that build understandings as to why a player ended up having the season that they did.

I think we can all agree that measuring performance is the first step. Then it becomes a matter of building enough knowledge to start understanding what may happen to players in future seasons.

It will take time but there are no shortcuts. The indicators that help will continue to be used and those that don’t will be pushed aside or forgotten.

So, I ask, do you keep track of all of your fantasy keeper league movements? How about all the trade offers you give and all the ones that you receive?
If your answer was “No” why not?

Isn’t that just as important? I say that it is even more important to you and your fantasy league because it is about your league. However, the only one that can keep track of this information is someone within your league and if we are talking about trade offers then it can only be you.

Sure, in the short term period, the commissioner announces trades and published who got dropped and who got drafted but that info is soon discarded.