Now that we are officially at the All-Star Break, the unofficial (and not exactly) halfway point of the season, I wanted to take a moment to look back over the first half and highlight some of the performances we have seen to date. This week we will be focusing on those positive surprises - the [...]
Keeping with the theme of recent weeks, we are going to do a bit of a dive into one specific area this week. Today the topic is goal scoring and how we can use connected data points to make better informed decisions about player performance. To address goal scoring we are going to rely on [...]
Today we are going for a deep dive and looking at player production through a slightly different lens. As any fantasy manager can attest there is quite a bit of variation from game to game, and even from week to week. Players can go from matchup defining games to cardio sessions with negligible fantasy impact. [...]
We are back at it this week with a Frozen Tool Forensic’s classic. Given the holidays and some other recent events I have been a bit out of the loop the last few weeks so decided to get back into the swing of things by looking at player deployment and trying to get an idea [...]
In Part 2 of our little power-play suite, we are going to move on from defensemen specifically to production in general. Last week was devoted to opportunity, using things like percent of a team’s total power-play, but this week we are focusing on point production and will see who is really taking advantage of their [...]
Every season we see an unexpected defenseman or two dramatically increase their fantasy stock over the course of the season. Sometimes it is their peripheral contributions or higher than expected five on five scoring, but usually it is because they have also ascended to the top power-play for their respective teams. For this week we [...]
Today I want to return to an article I wrote back in August attempting to predict some players on the cusp of a breakout. We will be taking a look at some of the predictions made, and see how the recommended players are performing now. The premise was based on an article posted in June [...]
As fans and writers, we sometimes like to pick arbitrary times as opportunities to look back or to group sets of games. For instance, the All-Star break is often used as a halfway point and a comparison for first half/second half splits when it is not in fact the halfway point of the season. Given [...]
Thus far in the early going we have tackled surprises, changes in ice time, and cold streaks. In each of these cases we are looking at league wide reports and filtering down to find the notable items to bring to the column. Through the process of filtering though, we have focused mostly on forwards and [...]
Today we are going to have a little fun and dive down the rabbit of empty net goals (ENG). We are in the early going so a low-event, unsustainable stat can have a big impact on a player’s overall count, shooting percentage, and our perception of how they are performing thus far. To get us [...]
