This week, we are continuing our MVP series by moving to left wings. I have included a small snippet from the original article below that outlines the process we are using in this series. ‘Most Valuable’ is a tricky term that is going to be completely dependent on the league specific context. For the purposes [...]
This week we are continuing our MVP series with right wings. I have included a small snippet from last week’s article below that outlines the process we are using in this series. ‘Most Valuable’ is a tricky term that is going to be completely dependent on the league specific context. For the purposes of this [...]
We won’t be covering the NHL playoffs blow by blow in this column, though we will touch on teams a bit as they get knocked out in each round. For this week, and for several upcoming weeks, we will be taking a look back over full season data and find out which players provided the [...]
With the season wrapping up I wanted to take a moment for what has become an annual tradition over here on Frozen Tool Forensics. We are using our regular season stats to look forward to playoff leagues and see if we can predict some unexpected playoff heroes. This all started back when I wrote the [...]
Back in August and then again in October we spent some time digging into players that might have been positioned to break out based on their 2023-24 seasons. Now that NHL action is wrapping up, I want to take a look back and see how our break out potentials fared. We are using point pace [...]
This week we are going to return from our playoff focused sequence of the last several weeks to some more traditional programming. The focus for today is going to be a look at point production, and more specifically points per 60. Points per 60 attempts to account for a player’s playing time when comparing scoring [...]
For the past several weeks we have been focusing on skater decisions at various positions. The goal was to find players you might want to add/drop during these do-or-die matchups (at least for leagues using a head-to-head format). With playoff matchups well underway we are going to focus this week on the remaining scheduled games. [...]
Over the past several weeks we have taken a look at players from the perspective of the approaching playoffs. Who are the teams on good schedules? Who are the skaters you might want to drop because you can’t wait for them to turn it around? Who are the players who have new opportunities at the [...]
It is almost a week past the trade deadline, and we are going to take the opportunity to do some quick reactions to a few of the players who have changed scenes. There were projected assessments of winners and losers for fantasy purposes, but now we have a few games under our belt let’s go [...]
Given the timing of the article this week, I decided not to chase trade stories. There will undoubtedly be trades finalized after the article posts, let alone after the planning and writing of it. I am also going to do my best to avoid players who are likely to be traded, though sometimes trade targets [...]
