Frozen Tools Forensics

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 [...]

In this Frozen Tools column we love to keep an eye on deployment, it has become a bit of a theme of the articles over the years. Getting access to top-six minutes and top power-play time is usually critical to success. Unless you are somehow able to watch every game it is hard to stay [...]

It could be just my leagues, but it seems like this season I am seeing more people cut bait with established players early on. Players who are cold for sure, but who we had some expectations of going into the season. For this week we are going to spend some time on cold players and [...]

The beginning of the season is an incredibly important time in fantasy. There is always a certain amount of roster turnover as players have fast starts, slow starts, or get better/worse deployment than expected. It is a time when attentive managers can really get an upper hand and turn a streaming spot, or dud draft [...]

The season is officially upon us. There haven’t been a ton of games played as of this writing (Thursday October 13), but I did want to take a moment and touch on a few players. There have been a number of interesting developments, and guys to watch through camp or the first few games. For [...]

By the time this is posted we will be on game day for the 2022-23 season. What a time to be alive. Season kickoff, as usual, means prediction from your fearless panel of writers here at Dobber Hockey. For the full list check out the article here, but for the purposes of today’s article we [...]

Given that we are in the midst of draft season, we are going to turn our attention to some more specific draft data and subject you all to a bit of my own drafting philosophy. The focus for this week will be those end of draft swings - but more on that in a minute. [...]

Last week we used a custom table built from Frozen Tool reports to get an idea of some players who could be in line to disappoint if we take their 2021-22 production too seriously. This week we are going to flip the script and see what those same data points tell us about players who [...]

With the fantasy season fast approaching, draft prep is key. You have your projections, your spreadsheets, your tiers, or maybe you are just going to wing it. Either way it is important to have an idea which players might be overvalued at the draft table. There are lots of articles out there analyzing Yahoo’s rankings, [...]