Frozen Tools Forensics

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, [...]

A few weeks ago on Frozen Tool Forensics, we focused on potential breakout players using a breakout threshold process outlined elsewhere on the site. For the full break down check out the article. Part of the analysis was looking at players that had strong second half splits. That got me thinking generally about first half/second [...]

As with the faceoff article posted a few weeks ago, I like to occasionally check in on stats, and therefore players, that are a bit more on the peripheral (see what I did there?) Categories like hits and blocks are not as exciting as points and shots, so they definitely don’t get as much air [...]

Usually in the summer I like to take a look at our fourth-year breakout reports and get an idea of which players are in position to take that step forward. This year I am going to adjust the process slightly based on a recent article that uses games played to measure a player’s breakout threshold. [...]

It is Bubble Week over here at Dobber Hockey. All of our articles this week have been touching on players with question marks. The ones you might be considering keeping, or might not. For my article this week we are going to be looking at production per 60. It is particularly interesting to me to [...]

Every so often on Frozen Tools I try to dig into a stat or a category that is a bit more specific and maybe doesn’t get as much airtime. I like to dig into some of the non-point related categories too, your hits, your blocks, but in particular find the players who thread the needle [...]