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 [...]
This week we are turning our collective attentions to a Dobber report that focuses a bit more on descriptive information than the data that informs our typical analysis. Usually we are looking at data points that can help us determine if a performance we are seeing from a player is sustainable or if we should [...]
Today on Frozen Tool Forensics we are going to spend some time digging into power-play defensemen. For the most part we know who the big names are on each team, but throughout the year there are usually changes happening with that deployment. These can be because of injury, the emergence of a new player, or [...]
Today on Frozen Tool Forensics we are going to dig into rookie performances. We will get to our current crop of rookies in a bit, but I want to start with some recent rookie history. Doing so will let us set the stage a bit in terms of what we usually expect from rookie production [...]
