In my sabermetrics and hockey postzs this summer, I have been discussing +/- ratings. I have shown one way to compare +/- ratings on different teams using on and off ice performance and given the top 20 and worst 20 ratings by...
A couple of stories this morning are up on NBC Sports page of MSNBC.com with Sporting News byline credits — can we get any more confusing? — for the fight fans amongst us. “According to McCann, the Predators could sue Salavat...
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Over the past few days, I have been looking at the sabermetrics and hockey problem of adjusting +/- ratings for on and off ice performance, the framework of which was developed by Gabriel Desjardins of behind the net. I have...
Stanley Cup Champs Bring Free-Agent Hossa to Detroit Wings GM Ken Holland uses new formula to build championship team through the draft, but is this really a new formula? Maybe when the Red Wings won the Stanley Cup in 1997,...
Yesterday, we linked over to a pair of rather epic interviews translated by the Alex Ovetjkin blog: One with Alexander Semin, and the other with Alexander Ovechkin. The Semin interview is wide-ranging, but worth it for his...
NEW YORK – Representatives from the National Hockey League, the Chicago Cubs, the Chicago Blackhawks, the Detroit Red Wings and the National Hockey Players' Association gathered this morning atop the third-base dugout of...
My first attempt to address the sabermetrics and hockey problem of rating individual player's defensively is to look at +/- ratings adjusted to give the difference between +/- when a player is on the ice and off the ice per...
They're all No. 1 in our hearts, of course, but here's how some Internet experts have ranked Detroit athletes this week: • The sportingnews.com's War Room scouts like the Lions' receiving corps. They ranked two Lions -- count...