Frozen Tools Forensics

With a lot of league’s playoffs wrapping up this weekend there isn’t a lot of forward planning to do for now. I wanted to take a moment for what has become an annual tradition over here in Frozen Tools. We are using our regular season stats to look forward to playoff leagues and see if [...]

In our last column we focused on short-term streaks, players that you want to take a look at for your do or die matchups. This week we are going to take the same sort of approach, but in terms of goalies. We will highlight a few teams that have had some changes, take a look [...]

We are very much in the home stretch here. Some leagues have already started playoffs, many begin next week. That means if there are changes to make to your team they need to be made now or there might not be another week to do it. It also means we are way less concerned with [...]

Welcome to deadline day. This has been a wild week with a ton of action leading up to Friday. As I am writing this on Thursday I don’t know if there are any dominoes still falling, but there are probably a couple of players that did not move right? For a full list of fantasy [...]

This week on Frozen Tool Forensics we are going to take a quick detour from our recent focus on skaters and point production. Today we are looking at on goalies. In most standard leagues we use bunch of goalie stats that goalies don”t necessarily have a lot of control over. Much of the value comes [...]

This week on Frozen Tool Forensics we are going to be focusing on even strength production, and more specifically the production of individual lines. While it usually takes power-play deployment to put up superstar numbers, solid even-strength production creates the baseline. Players with strong even strength production are valuable as they are putting up production [...]

Last week we kicked off the two-part look back miniseries by reviewing those players who have beaten their early season expectations. This week we will tackle those who have disappointed us and it is certainly an interesting list. To gather the data, I pulled Dobber’s point pace projections from the beginning of the year (available [...]

Now that we are officially at the All-Star Break, the unofficial (and not exactly) halfway point of the season, I wanted to take a moment to look back over the first half and highlight some of the performances we have seen to date. This week we will be focusing on those positive surprises - the [...]

Keeping with the theme of recent weeks, we are going to do a bit of a dive into one specific area this week. Today the topic is goal scoring and how we can use connected data points to make better informed decisions about player performance. To address goal scoring we are going to rely on [...]

Today we are going for a deep dive and looking at player production through a slightly different lens. As any fantasy manager can attest there is quite a bit of variation from game to game, and even from week to week. Players can go from matchup defining games to cardio sessions with negligible fantasy impact. [...]