This week we are going to return from our playoff focused sequence of the last several weeks to some more traditional programming. The focus for today is going to be a look at point production, and more specifically points per 60. Points per 60 attempts to account for a player’s playing time when comparing scoring [...]
Over the past several weeks we have taken a look at players from the perspective of the approaching playoffs. Who are the teams on good schedules? Who are the skaters you might want to drop because you can’t wait for them to turn it around? Who are the players who have new opportunities at the [...]
About a month ago we took a look at some percent rostered numbers as a way to try to highlight some players who might be free agents in some leagues. Today we are going to take a page out of that book but really focus on these last few weeks of the regular season. The [...]
Today on Frozen Tool Forensics we are going to take advantage of the upcoming Four Nations Tournament break and talk a little about player splits. For the purposes of this article, we are going to focus on first half/second half splits. Naturally we will be using past season data to do this with the idea [...]
Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of Frozen Tools Forensics. First and foremost, our thoughts and prayers are with those impacted by the tragedy in Washington, DC. It is a terrible thing to have witnessed and I’m hoping the next time I write an article I won’t be mentioning another national tragedy. I will [...]
Today on Frozen Tool Forensics we are digging into free agents. Well, players who might be available in your league that you should really have your eye on. Given that all leagues are different, and players will have different values in every situation, there is some non-exact science to this calculation, but we are going [...]
In honor of the midpoint of the season we are taking a look at player rankings. More specifically we are comparing current rankings to preseason rankings to review which players have seen their fortunes change since the start of the season. The data points for this review come from a few places. The current ranks [...]
