Frozen Tools Forensics

It is time to be returning to a recurring idea in our column: breakout players. While this column started out reviewing fourth-year breakout candidates, after some work on breakout thresholds more specifically associated with games played numbers, I adjusted the focus of the article to be in alignment with that. The full article was posted [...]

This week, after a brief break for Bubble Week, we are here to finish our division review. Over the past few weeks we have looked at advanced stats and flagged players whose point pace from 2023-24 looked unsustainable. Our goal is to identify players that may be in line for a return to form, and [...]

This week on Frozen Tool Forensics we are taking a break from our division review to jump in on Bubble Keeper Week. To set some parameters for the article today, I am going to focus on data that came from a home league I play in. Essentially, I am going to use that league to [...]

This week we are moving on to the Metro Division. Over the past couple of weeks, we have looked at a few advanced stats and flagged players whose point pace from 2023-24 looked unsustainable. Our goal is to identify players that may be in line for a return to form, and those who it might [...]

Today we are continuing our division sweep. Last week we looked at a few advanced stats and flagged Pacific Division players whose point pace from 2023-24 looked unsustainable (for good or ill). Today we are going to be doing the same with the Central Division. As a reminder here is some context setting from the [...]

Today we are kicking off a mini-series focusing on helping us make smarter player decisions at the draft table. It is not enough to know how a player performed in the previous season, but we need to try to determine whether or not that level of performance was reasonable or unsustainable. We will go division [...]

After a hiatus for a couple of weeks due to vacation I am returning this week to finish off the playoff coverage. In the previous articles we covered teams that were eliminated in the first two rounds and identified players who seemed like they were on the outs and those who were getting a bigger [...]

There are a couple of more playoff related topics that we are going to hit in this column, but they need to wait until the finals have wrapped up. In the meantime, let’s return to the 2023-24 season as there are some additional ways we can look at the season, and some interesting reports we [...]

We are back this week to finish our MVP series. We have completed reviews for centers, right and left wingers, and defensemen. Today we will be moving on to goalies. The process will be much the same as with skater articles, though using different categories and scoring metrics. ‘Most Valuable’ is a tricky term that [...]

While we wait for the conclusion of the Cup Finals, we return to our MVP series. Today is the final installment of our skater portion. We have concluded the forwards and are moving on to defensemen. As a reminder here is some context for the data below this series. For the purposes of this article, [...]