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Re: Faceoffs

Last night against the Wild: Blues faceoff win percent = 58% This is very strong faceoff performance. Our Team was especially dominant in the first period on this metric at 15 wins out of 20 faceoffs for 75%. http://www.nhl.com/scores/htmlreports/20142015/FS021026.HTM" onclick="window.open...

Re: The Eye Test

An honest statistician will tell you that you can measure anything if you want to and try hard enough. An honest statistician will tell you that if you are not trying to quantify and objectively record and analyze the observations of human observers that you are likely to get junk coming out the en...

Re: The Eye Test

“What analytics taught me is your eyes and your mind are lying sons of bitches in the worst absolute way,” Dubas said. This has been empirically confirmed time after time after time. It is sad, but it has been proven. It's how our brains are hard-wired. All of our brains. Yours and mine. See: Thinki...

Re: Faceoffs

13_14_reg_hits_blocks_etc_win_percent[1].png 13_14_reg_extraskater[1].png Sant, out of curiosity, where do faceoffs fall in line with other factors that correlate to winning games? Or, maybe a better question, what are the top five drivers of winning games, statistically, and do faceoffs actually m...

Re: The Eye Test

[quote="UMSLBlues12" ]No need to have a pissing contest over who knows more about what here. This is a sport after all and while some of us may have more experience in quantitative data analysis none of us are scouts, coaches in the NHL, etc (except for Hockey Pete I believe is a scout?). ...

Re: The Eye Test

How does one quantify leadership? My gosh. This has been an active area of empirical research for decades. From in-box tests and work simulations to pencil and paper tests. Including empirical research of what different types of leadership there may be and in what situations are they most beneficia...

Re: The Eye Test

An honest statistician will tell you that you can measure anything if you want to and try hard enough. An honest statistician will tell you that if you are not trying to quantify and objectively record and analyze the observations of human observers that you are likely to get junk coming out the end...

Re: The Eye Test

And, this of course is why clinical trials are double-blind.

The doctor doesn't know who is getting what.

The patients don't know who is getting what.

Wow.

Re: Faceoffs

Some people would say that winning face offs is directly related to winning games. What does the data say? Some people say a lot of things. Frequently, "some people" are wrong. Faceoffs, not trivial, but not a big deal. The Zombie That Will Not Die! http://hockeysimplified.blogspot.com/&q...

Re: The Eye Test

Neither are perfect but the problem with the eye test IMO is confirmation bias. Which we as fans certainly are subject to. Confirmation bias. The availability heuristic (horns, halo, salience, recency). It is just how our brains work if we leave our brains to their own devices. As for: "Especi...

Re: The Eye Test

A quick and dirty answer to NHLTim's question: Robert Bortuzzo Ian Cole age 25 26 height 6'4" 6"1" weight 215 219 shoots Right Left salary $650,000 $900,000 status RFA after this season RFA after this season last season: games played 54 46 last season: minutes played 763.58 653.5 last...

Re: The Eye Test

Re: NHLTim's question What a great question. How should we value a player and, as a result, compare one player against another? Ian Cole played 812.0 minutes (please notice these are decimal minutes) for the Blues this season. Robert Bortuzzo has played 62.5 minutes. So, there is a sample size issu...

Re: The Eye Test

Very stimulating... Web, I definitely agree with you that advanced stats can be a great tool in cases where X player is somewhat unknown to a scout or GM. However, intangibles which hockey is chock full of, cant be measured even with even with basic hockey stats. Regardless, both will be used. To b...

Re: The Eye Test

Re: NHLTim's question What a great question. How should we value a player and, as a result, compare one player against another? Ian Cole played 812.0 minutes (please notice these are decimal minutes) for the Blues this season. Robert Bortuzzo has played 62.5 minutes. So, there is a sample size issue...

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