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Sunday, April 17, 2011
Friday, April 15, 2011
Blocked Shots
I did a stat crunch of blocked shots in the NHL this year and based my ratings off that.
Dan Girardi and Greg Zanon will get a 4 in BS
http://www.nhl.com/ice/playerstats.htm?fetchKey=20112ALLSASAll&sort=blockedShots&viewName=rtssPlayerStats
Dan Girardi and Greg Zanon will get a 4 in BS
http://www.nhl.com/ice/playerstats.htm?fetchKey=20112ALLSASAll&sort=blockedShots&viewName=rtssPlayerStats
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Saturday, April 9, 2011
APBA disk
After pondering for a short while I have decided to produce my own disk. I hope to have it finished before the "real" disk is released. It should be interesting to see how the two compare... my winging it versus their analytical approach
Friday, April 1, 2011
Down the stretch
Taking a closer look at the league leaders as the CCHL season winds to a close I am struck with some of the freakish scoring of the current disk.
Karlstad's Patrick Marleau is leading the world in scoring with an amazing 132 points and a plus 78 ! Denver's Paul Stastny is no slouch with over 100 assists. Copenhagen's Stamkos with 69 goals. WOW ! Budapest's Evgeni Nabokov has 46 wins and Beverly Hills Bryzgalov has 12 shutouts to go with 42 wins. Niagara has an impressive duo on the blueline with Doughty and Markov as well as Denver with Kaberle and Liles. Copenhagen has Green on the blueline with 63 assists. Meanwhile Victoria's pugilist Carkner has 241 pims (I had to throw my name in there somewhere)
I won't go into details on Dayton since Bill turned over so much of his roster but the team numbers are very impressive.
The shots are also very surprising. Wisborg's Ovechkin has 453 shots on net, Karlstad's pair of Marleau and Semin have 933 shots between them. I feel for the goalies of the lessor teams of the CCHL.
Its not that various teams should be criticized for maximizing their rosters. In fact they should be congratulated. However, I am left wondering how realistic is a disk that has four 60 goal scorers ? During the disk creation process many of us participate in we are told that the numbers are crunched so that they fall "within" certain parameters. Yet I don't fully buy into the way the disk is produced. I am not slighting the disk team, its purely volunteer work and requires hours of data crunching, but perhaps those of us who are true non-myopic hockey fans might get within 90% of the final numbers by just fudging it ourselves.
Yes its easy to sit back after the season is done and take a skeptical look at the results but I think the disk is no longer what it once was. This is news to nobody and has been a repeated subject of discussion between Bill and I over the years.
One possible solution is that the CCHL might do well to start considering the possibility of making our own disk. As long as it is scheduled I know I can find the time to more than pull my weight. I think that we would have to have some guidelines, for example a reviewer wouldn't create ratings for players on his/her current roster.
Anyone else interested ?
Karlstad's Patrick Marleau is leading the world in scoring with an amazing 132 points and a plus 78 ! Denver's Paul Stastny is no slouch with over 100 assists. Copenhagen's Stamkos with 69 goals. WOW ! Budapest's Evgeni Nabokov has 46 wins and Beverly Hills Bryzgalov has 12 shutouts to go with 42 wins. Niagara has an impressive duo on the blueline with Doughty and Markov as well as Denver with Kaberle and Liles. Copenhagen has Green on the blueline with 63 assists. Meanwhile Victoria's pugilist Carkner has 241 pims (I had to throw my name in there somewhere)
I won't go into details on Dayton since Bill turned over so much of his roster but the team numbers are very impressive.
The shots are also very surprising. Wisborg's Ovechkin has 453 shots on net, Karlstad's pair of Marleau and Semin have 933 shots between them. I feel for the goalies of the lessor teams of the CCHL.
Its not that various teams should be criticized for maximizing their rosters. In fact they should be congratulated. However, I am left wondering how realistic is a disk that has four 60 goal scorers ? During the disk creation process many of us participate in we are told that the numbers are crunched so that they fall "within" certain parameters. Yet I don't fully buy into the way the disk is produced. I am not slighting the disk team, its purely volunteer work and requires hours of data crunching, but perhaps those of us who are true non-myopic hockey fans might get within 90% of the final numbers by just fudging it ourselves.
Yes its easy to sit back after the season is done and take a skeptical look at the results but I think the disk is no longer what it once was. This is news to nobody and has been a repeated subject of discussion between Bill and I over the years.
One possible solution is that the CCHL might do well to start considering the possibility of making our own disk. As long as it is scheduled I know I can find the time to more than pull my weight. I think that we would have to have some guidelines, for example a reviewer wouldn't create ratings for players on his/her current roster.
Anyone else interested ?
Friday, March 25, 2011
Hey Mario !
with the recent elbow to the head of Rangers defenseman Ryan McDonaugh I came across this great website that has links to many of Matt Cooke's history of injuring hockey players.
Its appropriately titled "Matt Cooke history of violence"
http://www.tolensky.com/2011/03/matt-cooke-history-of-violence.html
My question is
"Why are Matt Cooke's antics good enough to wear a Penguins uniform ?"
I would love to hear what you have to say
Its appropriately titled "Matt Cooke history of violence"
http://www.tolensky.com/2011/03/matt-cooke-history-of-violence.html
My question is
"Why are Matt Cooke's antics good enough to wear a Penguins uniform ?"
I would love to hear what you have to say
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