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With Seattle on the brain, we turn to expansion teams. This will be a bit less about Seattle’s current draft list (which is likely to change before opening night) and more about doing a little expectation setting. We will start by digging into our last example of an expansion team entering into the league and [...]

We have arrived at our final four. We are examining what changed for teams and players during their playoff runs. In Part 1, and Part 2 we were reviewing first round exits. In Part 3 we hit the second round exits. The final four have the largest sample sizes and saw the most success of [...]

Here we are for the third in our four-part series examining what changed for teams and players during their playoff runs. In Part 1, and Part 2 we were examining first round exits. As such there were small sample sizes and disappointing exits that were impacting the data we were looking at. It is harder [...]

We are back for Week 2 of our playoff review series. In week one we took a look at our West Coast and Canadian teams who were eliminated in the first round, and our goal for this week is to do the same out east. We won't focus on matchup results so much as on [...]

Now that we have wrapped up our ‘Most Valuable” series we are going to turn our attention to playoff results. (To review the season’s most valuable players check it out here for centermen, left wings, right wings, defensemen, and goalies). We won't focus on matchup results so much as on what various players accomplished during [...]

Welcome to Part 5 of our original four-part series. We started with the skaters, but it turns out we have easy access to the goalie data as well. We have already covered centermen, left wings, right wings, and defensemen. Our goal is to figure out which players gave the most value to their fantasy teams. [...]

Welcome to part four of our four part skater series. We have already reviewed centermen, left wings, and right wings. Our goal is to figure out which players gave the most value to their fantasy teams. To do this we are essentially comparing player draft data to their end of year stats to get an [...]

Welcome to Part 3 of our four-part series looking back at the most valuable players at each position. We started with centermen, last week we hit left wings, and now we are on to right wings. I think you probably get the gist by now, but we are comparing draft data to player’s end-of-year stats [...]

Last week we started our “Most Valuable’ series by taking a look at the performance of our centremen during the 2021 season. We compared draft data to their end of year stats to get an idea of how well they had lived up to their average draft ranking (ADP). To be a valuable player in [...]

Now that the season is finally under wraps (sorry Vancouver/Calgary) it is time to take a look back and see how things panned out. For this mini-series we are going to take each position and see who provided the most value. We will do this by comparing their draft rankings to their performance rankings. Basically, [...]