Ryan Wagman (@RAWagman) and I recently wrote an ESPN.com article on trade deadline fixes for each of the Atlantic Division teams. Check it out here if you have ESPN Insider, or here if you are a member at HockeyProspectus.com. For the other divisions, there are links on the right hand side of the ESPN article.
Disclaimer: we finished the article before the Pens' flurry of trades. We picked Adrian Aucoin for the Pens, suggesting the Pens biggest need was a depth defenseman. Since then the Pens acquired a different defenseman, Doug Murray, so that sort of coincides. Of course, the Pens did some other stuff too.
Wired.com article on realignment
Samuel Arbesman (@arbesman) wrote a nice article at Wired.com titled Algorithmically Realigning Sports Leagues. The article is a nice summary of the realignment project that Bill Pulleyblank and I worked on. Check it out here, and the rest of our realignment stuff here.
Analysis of NHL's realignment plan
I just finished up an article over at HockeyProspectus.com, analyzing the NHL's new realignment plan.
At first glance, the new plan might appear bad for the teams in the northeast and the Florida teams, who are all in a division together. But we show, among other things, that the new plan has a fairly small impact on their travel... just a small increase over what their travel would have been in the the "best" 4-conference solution (if by "best" we mean the solution that would minimize travel).
Links to all of the realignment articles are on the realignment page.
At first glance, the new plan might appear bad for the teams in the northeast and the Florida teams, who are all in a division together. But we show, among other things, that the new plan has a fairly small impact on their travel... just a small increase over what their travel would have been in the the "best" 4-conference solution (if by "best" we mean the solution that would minimize travel).
Links to all of the realignment articles are on the realignment page.
More realignment figures
Just wanted to post some figures that are related to the discussion going on over at Tom Tango's blog about realignment. I'd encourage you to read the discussion there first. (I encourage you to read the rest of his blog regularly also.)
NHL Realignment
I recently finished a paper on realignment with friend and colleague
Bill Pulleyblank. The purpose of the project was to determine solutions to realignment that minimize travel for the league. We also compare our best solutions to the NHL 4-conference proposal from around a year ago.
I also wrote a couple of articles about it on Hockey Prospectus. Links to everything, plus some animations that are discussed in the second Hockey Prospectus article, can be found on the Realignment page.
I also wrote a couple of articles about it on Hockey Prospectus. Links to everything, plus some animations that are discussed in the second Hockey Prospectus article, can be found on the Realignment page.
Realignment Animations
I'll be writing some articles on realignment shortly. In the mean time, here's a preview... I posted some animations related to this project on the Realignment page, including the top 100 solutions for each of the 4 major sports leagues.
Details about our method of generating and ranking these realignments is coming soon...
Details about our method of generating and ranking these realignments is coming soon...
Nashville Preds surprise youth hockey game
Thought this was pretty cool.
The Nashville Predators surprise a youth hockey game by bringing the full NHL experience to the rink. The families and kids are stunned to see and hear the NHL announcer, Paul McCann, the national anthem, Gnash, and about 250 fans take over the game.
The nhlnumbers.com Reference Library
Over at nhlnumbers.com, Eric T. has been compiling a nice Reference Library with "articles that have advanced our understanding of the game in some small way." Quality.
Adjusted Plus-Minus
Many of the projects I've worked on are related to Adjusted Plus-Minus (APM), so I thought I'd make that my first real, actual post.
APM is a plus-minus-like statistic that improves over plus-minus in many ways. Over at behindthenethockey.com and/or arcticicehockey.com, I wrote a four-part blog series describing how the statistic is calculated, the improvements that it is has over plus-minus, and some of the results for best offensive, defensive, and overall players at even strength. Here are links to those posts:
APM is a plus-minus-like statistic that improves over plus-minus in many ways. Over at behindthenethockey.com and/or arcticicehockey.com, I wrote a four-part blog series describing how the statistic is calculated, the improvements that it is has over plus-minus, and some of the results for best offensive, defensive, and overall players at even strength. Here are links to those posts:
Why "Greater Than Plus Minus"?
When I started thinking of a website name, I had a lot of "great" ideas:
anarcticicehockey.com
nhlnumerals.com
infrontofthenet.ca
nhlprospectus.com
thehockeybook.com (by limbolion)
Little did I know they were similar to existing website names. The other ideas that I had clearly illustrated my lack of creativity in word-related endeavors... I studied mathematics for a reason. So I polled some friends, who were much more creative than me.
anarcticicehockey.com
nhlnumerals.com
infrontofthenet.ca
nhlprospectus.com
thehockeybook.com (by limbolion)
Little did I know they were similar to existing website names. The other ideas that I had clearly illustrated my lack of creativity in word-related endeavors... I studied mathematics for a reason. So I polled some friends, who were much more creative than me.
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