Frozen Tools Forensics

We are back with Week 2 of our dive into advanced stats and how they are related to projections. Make sure you pick up the Dobber Fantasy Guide for the most up-to-date info out there, but this series should help in understanding why some projections look the way they do and in developing your own. [...]

With the NHL start date of January 13th announced let’s turn our attention to projections. Obviously, make sure you pick up the Dobber Guide, but if you want to do some of your own there are a few stats that might help in that journey. For the next few articles, we are going to take [...]

This week we are going to take a second look at the data set from last week and dive into a few more players and specific categories. As a refresher, last week we used The Frozen Tool’s report Home/Away and examine trends in categories that happen more often in home games than in away games. [...]

This week we are going to take a slight about-face from our recent work. We have been focusing a lot on point production (here and here) and multi-category players (here and here), diving into players who excel, or who could break out in those various categories. This week we are going to take a bit [...]

This week we are back in the saddle to finish up our mini-series on multi-cat players. Two weeks ago we hit the forward group, and this week we are going to talk defensemen. Just as a quick reminder, we are using the Frozen Tool’s Report, Multi-Category. For the purposes of our work today we will [...]

In honor of Bubble Week we are going to put a quick pause on our look at multi-cat players and turn our attention to a few players who might be worth a little extra examination on your rosters. As with all of the other writers this week we are going to avoid talking about the [...]

Back when I was writing the Wild West Column, every so often I would take a break from scorers and focus on some adds managers could make to boost their category coverage. This week I would like to dive back into the world of hits and blocks and take a look at multi-category players. We [...]

Back in April we did a small mini-series about fourth-year breakout candidates. In the first article we used the 4th Year Breakout Report and some sorting to come up with a list of potential break-out candidates. In the second, we examined a few in more depth, looking at their specific prospects in the lineup. When [...]

Two weeks ago we took a look at Matt Murray and Devan Dubnyk moving cities, and last week, inspired by the Taylor Hall move, we examined big-name wingers on the move over the last several seasons. This week, after some positive comments and questions about goalies we are essentially going to combine these two approaches [...]

You’ve probably heard by now that Taylor Hall has signed a deal to play in Buffalo. The surprising nature of the choice and the deal has led to a plethora of takes and articles. Dobber is no different with some references here, here, and here. It got me thinking though, this isn’t the first time [...]