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: Pending Restricted Free Agents – Part 1
We will begin to delve into the top-20 restricted free agent class of 2019. We will look at projected contracts (using Evolving Wild), potential offer sheets and any other interesting stats from Dobber Frozen Tools. At any moment, players from this list could re-sign with their existing teams (e.g., Esa Lindell just re-signed with [...]
Frozen Tools Forensics – Looking to Free Agency (Part IV)
For the fourth and final part of our look at UFAs for next season, we will check-in on the players available who would be considered the elite of the UFA class. These are the established top-line players who can be considered tier one. Any references to WAR (wins above replacement) are from www.evolving-hockey.com calculations [...]
Frozen Tools Forensics: Looking at Free Agency – Part 3
For part three of four in our look at UFAs for next season, we will look at the players available who would be considered established top-four forwards or defensemen. An enjoyable reference is Evolving Wild’s contract projections, which has an algorithm for free agent player salaries on a google spreadsheet. Most of their projections [...]
Frozen Tools Forensics: Looking to Free Agency – Part 1
For part one of our look at UFAs for next season, we will look at the players available who might be considered in the lowest tier. I’ve broken the players into four separate tiers, with the fourth being replacement level or slightly above, tier three being above replacement level, tier two being solid top-nine [...]
Frozen Tools Forensics: Home Sweet Home/Road Splits
In 2017-2018, Nathan Mackinnon had 67 points in 39 games at home and only 30 points in 35 games on the road, and Blake Wheeler had 60 points in 41 games at home and 31 points in 40 games on the road. At a 37- and 29-point differential respectively, those two were the home [...]
Frozen Tools Forensics: Low-Profile Rookies
Some rookies this season finished more strongly than expected and are worth keeping an eye on for next season. We’ve highlighted a few that perhaps haven’t yet caught most people’s attention. Anthony Cirelli – Tampa Bay Lightning Cirelli played 18 regular season games with Tampa Bay in 2017-2018 and scored five goals [...]
