Eastern Edge

Last week I took a look at the predictive value of primary assists for total points scored (you can find that article here Primary Assist Rates to Monitor). Most of the time was spent discussing the value of a primary rate percentage and whether it is predictive of the total points scored for a player.  [...]

Completely outside the topic of the Eastern Conference but how about what is going on in Vegas right now?  I mean in all actuality if you try to wrap your head around making The Cup Final in year one it’s almost impossible. There will be a movie made about this one – that’s for sure.  [...]

The Atlantic produced some excellent seasons from the center position.  They may not have been true breakouts but the seasons put together by Aleksander Barkov and Vincent Trocheck led to some fantasy owners finding gold down the middle this year. Here is how to interpret the below graph: The X-axis is expected goals for centers [...]

If you haven’t had a chance to check out the new Frozen Tool changes over at Dobber – I suggest you do so -> (Frozen Pool: Sidney Crosby).  Excellent stuff – really quick info on some advanced stats. You will be at a disadvantage next year if you’re not utilizing this information when making trade [...]

I’m really excited about the following analysis and I hope you are too.  Like always please follow me on twitter @DH_jcameronmetz.  The data source for this analysis comes from Natural Stat Trick. For the last three years I’ve routinely drafted Oliver Ekman-Larsson.  My rankings are typically created by normalizing the data using a standard score [...]

With the Penguins and Lightning finding their way to the next round the first round hasn’t quite completed yet.  How about the performance of Jake Guentzel and Sean Couturier on Sunday?  I covered Guentzel and the blockage on the top power play that limits him to his 5v5 scoring previously, and eventually we’ll swing around [...]

The NHL Playoffs are in full swing – I’ve been laying low and trying to catch as many games as I can.   This week I played around with the difference between expected goals and actuals for RWs in the Atlantic.   However instead of analyzing one year shooting percentage I mutated the numbers to calculate the [...]

After each round these playoffs I’ll recap the biggest surprises for players from the East. It will be a nice way to break up the deep dive into specific stats.  The way players perform in the playoffs often impacts next year’s draft boards, so I’ll make sure we sanity check all the hype that will [...]

Well here we go – after reading DobberHockey articles daily for countless years, I am going to attempt to shed some light using the advice I’ve gathered here and adding some risk-adverse statistical spin to what has, is, and will be happening in the Eastern Conference.   If you’re like me, you’re still stewing over the [...]

Now that we’re getting to the short strokes of the 2017-18 campaign, with only a handful of games remaining, we have a number of “season-ending” injuries playing havoc with our fantasy rosters. This week’s fantasy focus player has been known to miss a game or two dozen in his short career.   Fantasy Focus   [...]