Frozen Tools Forensics

Congrats if you are still invested in a hockey team at this point, it likely means your fantasy journey is continuing. Last week we focused on some immediate players who were streaking and whether or not they might be good adds to your roster. We also hit on a few highly rostered players who might [...]

It is that time of year again. If you are still in competitive matchups, congrats. We don’t really have the luxury of looking long term anymore. For most folks, it is win or go home at this point. When the timeline is one week a simple hot streak can make or break the matchup. Given [...]

This week we return to trade deadline talk. Last week we did a historical walkthrough of the 22-23 season and what happened to the forwards traded. This week we will be touching on defense. We won’t be hitting directly on specific trades from 23-24 in this article, but I wanted to set our expectations for [...]

Welcome to deadline season. There have been a few dominos to fall leading up to the deadline, but nothing compared to the early start we saw last year. We won’t be hitting directly on a specific trade in this article, but in honor of the trade deadline, and to set our expectations accordingly when players [...]

Today on Frozen Tools Forensics we are continuing our look at a player's age. Last week we looked the young players who have been performing well recently and today we are flipping the script and looking at those still productive older players. With the younger players, we looked at smaller sample sizes of positive production [...]

Today on Frozen Tools Forensics we are going to embark on another little mini-series. Last week we looked at IPP, and we will be continuing to review some other ‘underlying’ numbers in the next few weeks as well. This week though, I wanted to turn to another data point where we don’t typically spend a [...]

Every so often I try to take a moment to pause and make sure to do some deeper dives into some of the numbers we use to assess player performances. In articles I will often refer to underlying numbers and it is often a shorthand way of saying that for each player there are a [...]

Now that we are on a little break for the All-Star festivities it seems like an opportune moment to look back on the games that were. For today’s article we are going to focus on some first half surprises - folks who are doing a little something unexpected. You may recall back at the beginning [...]

This week on Frozen Tool Forensics we are shifting gears a bit and digging into peripheral categories, specifically for defense. We did this back in November so are going to be taking a look at anything that has changed since then. For the purposes of this article, we are going to mainly focus on hits, [...]

This week on Frozen Tool Forensics we are going to try a new way to look at goalies. Essentially we are going to be tracking down some goalie start numbers and see if we can find a way to run a report or a series of reports to give us an idea of who is [...]