Geek of the Week

Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this article, I will be examining shots. We’ll examine shot attempts, sometimes represented as individual Corsi For (iCF) – when a player shoots the puck toward the net, whether it hits it, misses, or gets blocked and shots on goal – when a player's shot [...]

Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this article, I will be examining some bubble players. These are players that managers may have contemplated dropping in 10–12-man leagues. They had a nice start to the season, or a nice hot streak and found their way onto many rosters, but their recent play [...]

Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this article, I will be examining the goalie landscape, specifically the ZeroG landscape. For those of you who are not aware, ZeroG is a strategy where you generally don’t invest early picks into goalies and pick up the scraps. Using these “scraps” tend to do [...]

Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this article, I’ll be taking a look under the hood at some underperformers through the first quarter of the season. I’ll examine their underlying metrics and give my opinion on their rest of season potential. A few underlying metrics I’ll examine are individual shooting percentage [...]

Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this article, I will be taking a look at peripheral categories (shots, hits, blocks, and penalty minutes). I’ll take a deep dive into how much value they actually bring to your fantasy team. Someone like Jeremy Lauzon may lead the league in hits, but he’ll [...]

Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this article, I will be taking a look at power play metrics. I will highlight some sleepers who are getting great power play opportunities, but who are being slept on. In multicategory leagues, power-play points and maybe even power-play goals are usually included. Power play [...]

Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this article, I will be examining some players that fall at either end of the spectrum of exceeding expectations or falling far below them. For these players, we’ll take a look under the hood at some underlying metrics to see if their performances are sustainable [...]

Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this article, I will be examining some early Goalie performances, specifically their weekly consistency. If you are unfamiliar with my True Value constructs (Quality Weeks, Really Bad Weeks, and Star Weeks), I utilize these to model a Goalie’s True Value in head-to-head (H2H) category leagues. [...]

Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this article, I will be examining some early risers in peripheral categories. These players could be new or existing multicategory studs for your leagues that count shots on goal, hits, blocks, and penalty minutes. Kiefer Sherwood In Sherwood’s new role on the Canucks, he is [...]

Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! It is still a little early in the season and we don’t have much data to work with yet, but I will be diving into the world of shot attempts in this article and highlighting some early season surprises. We’ll examine shots on goal - when [...]