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 [...]
We are in the final stretch of matchups before league playoffs. For a lot of teams these matchups are make or break weeks for making those playoffs or for securing more favorable positions. Last week we reviewed players who were potentially available in your league and identified those with good schedules remaining over this period. [...]
About a month ago we took a look at some percent rostered numbers as a way to try to highlight some players who might be free agents in some leagues. Today we are going to take a page out of that book but really focus on these last few weeks of the regular season. The [...]
This week on Frozen Tool Forensics we are going to dip back into Multi-Cat Performers. The name of the game here is strong contributions across several scoring categories. To gather the data for this review we are taking a look at the Multi-Category report on the Dobber Reports page. This report gives us basic scoring [...]
Today on Frozen Tool Forensics we are going to take advantage of the upcoming Four Nations Tournament break and talk a little about player splits. For the purposes of this article, we are going to focus on first half/second half splits. Naturally we will be using past season data to do this with the idea [...]
Today on Frozen Tool Forensics we are digging into free agents. Well, players who might be available in your league that you should really have your eye on. Given that all leagues are different, and players will have different values in every situation, there is some non-exact science to this calculation, but we are going [...]
Today on Frozen Tool Forensics we are taking a deep dive into scoring. Goals, shots, shooting percentages – that is the name of the game today. To get us started we have a helpful report on the Dobber Reports page entitled Shots. This report gives us all we might want to know about a player’s [...]
In honor of the midpoint of the season we are taking a look at player rankings. More specifically we are comparing current rankings to preseason rankings to review which players have seen their fortunes change since the start of the season. The data points for this review come from a few places. The current ranks [...]
