Frozen Tools Forensics

Back when I wrote the Wild West column, I started a series based on Rick Roos and his research on unlikely playoff heroes. He looked at players who were performing better in the playoffs than in their previous regular season. He then attempted to figure out if it was predictive of future performance. I went [...]

Greetings Dobbers and Dobbettes, it's your favorite fill-in writer back once again to help you either win your championship week or get you to the finals in your league. Last week we used Frozen Tools to help you find the perfect weekend waiver goalie in Alexandar Georgiev and if you heeded our advice then good [...]

It's currently the fantasy hockey playoffs for anyone who plays in a head-to-head format, also known as the most anxiety riddled time of year for fantasy hockey managers. One wrong start/sit decision could be the difference between hoisting the championship trophy and shameful second place. If you're in a tight match-up and you find yourself [...]

At times I find myself just exploring the Frozen Tools section just because I almost always find something new to look at or something that catches my eye. It is an incredibly powerful selection of tools and data to answer specific questions and much of what we column in this series is just that. Whether [...]

This week we are going to take a bit of a long and meandering trip. I write this intro after I went down this rabbit hole, and it all starts with the tools available on Frozen Tools. I added some links along the way so that folks can follow along and find the various reports/charts [...]

My fantasy teams this season have had a particular need in net as of late. Because of that I have been paying a bit closer attention to goalies and trying to grab some replacements when there have been injuries etc. I looked at my teams this week and I realized that every single one of [...]

It has been a while since we have specifically looked at some of the wide-ranging offers that Frozen Tools really has. We have been using it to answer specific questions for, but I wanted to take a moment and check back in on some of the basic info we can access, and some of the [...]

Last week we took some time to review draft steals. We looked at players in various ownership tiers and when they were drafted (if they were). We found a number of players who were either drafted late, or not drafted at all but are highly owned now. This week the plan is to flip the [...]

At about the halfway point of the (fantasy) season, it seems an appropriate time to take stock of what we thought compared to where various players have landed. We have had enough games played for most teams that we should be able to draw some conclusions, or at least have some idea of where players [...]

For the last several weeks we have been focused on a league-wide scan of power-play defensemen.  Week 1 is here, Week 2 is here, and Week 3 is here. Now that we have wrapped up that discussion, we are going to turn to a bit of gold mining. Scouring the waiver wire is never a [...]