Chris Kane checks in every Friday to dig deep on players of interest in fantasy circles. He walks you through the various statistical tools of Jay Arbuthnot and Eric Daoust’s Frozen Tools at your disposal.
Frozen Tools Forensics: Hot starts and sustainable point paces
Here are the top 50 players in scoring, ranked by their current pace to end the season. The Pace tool is available in the Frozen Tools Report Generator. Since scoring has increased overall from an average of 3.01/g per team in 2018-2019 to 3.08/g this season, we should see quite a few players reach [...]
Frozen Tools Forensics: Comparing skaters and goalies
Two of the coolest features within Dobber’s Frozen Tools are the Compare Players and Compare Goalies tools. If you have a trade offer you want to extend or have received in your pool, it’s a pretty slick and easy way to evaluate the players. Or, if you are having an argument on who is [...]
Frozen Tools Forensics: PDO levels early in the season
I will preface this article by saying that I know there are severe limitations around PDO as a stat and this is not meant to provide an analytical critique or an in-depth scouting report of NHL players. It is intended to give fantasy owners a clue as to whether a player might continue to [...]
Frozen Tools Forensics: Looking for fourth-year breakouts
Is it too early in the season to look at the top ten candidates for fourth-year breakouts? Probably, but we will do it anyway. When I say breakouts, it’s not about players like Mitch Marner, Matthew Tkachuk or Sebastian Aho who have already had stellar seasons and should duplicate or slightly improve upon them. [...]
Frozen Tools Forensics: Top-20 rookies, part 2
This week we will focus on the top ten in our two-part at the top 20 rookies for 2019-2020. As of writing this column we still have all of our part one rookies still up with the NHL teams (Joel Persson was injured in the Oilers pre-season game and we’re unsure of the severity [...]