Comments on: Poof! Goes The Offense

By: Anatomy of a Losing Streak

Anatomy of a Losing Streak — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 06:01:19 +0000

[...] Losing Streaks are Rare made us marvel at the statistical implausibility of our pathetic fortunes. Poof! Goes the Offense had one RMNB staff member considering monasticism. Neil had the foresight to ask Is Two Days [...]

By: The Machinist: December 17, 2010

The Machinist: December 17, 2010 — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 22:50:48 +0000

[...] Poof! Goes the Offense Neil charts the decline and disappearance of the Caps’ production using his scoring chances data set. [...]

By: Is Two Days Enough?

Is Two Days Enough? — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 03:23:55 +0000

[...] thought the Caps would be heading into HBO’s 24/7 special. The intensity is there. The scoring chances are there. Just not the goals, and– as a result– not the wins [...]

By: Can’t Lose

Can’t Lose — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:06:14 +0000

[...] Boudreau, not dumping Bruce Boudreau, the curse of HBO, statistics so grim they seem actuarial, the colloquial and literal meanings of “going dark”, and the faintest glimmer of [...]

By: Neil - RMNB

Neil - RMNB — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:48:13 +0000

@Anon: I must have deleted the part where I explain that the goals-for in the convert rate are ONLY those form “dangerous” scoring chances, which is why the GF total is lower than actual.

Sorry for confusion.

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 12:58:53 +0000

Is it possible to scrub out the non-scoring-chance goals from the denominator, thus yielding a true conversion rate on scoring chances?

I’d like to see a side by side comparison on the scrubbed data with the data you just posted, in order to see how “lucky” goals drive results.

By: Diana

Diana — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 05:25:52 +0000

Dear Lord I hope the Caps win tomorrow night if only so that I don’t get the crap scared out of me every time I open this site…

By: DarkStranger44

DarkStranger44 — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 05:22:56 +0000

Well the blackening the site theme and the ghoulish creature gave me a chuckle. Well, we do need humor to get us through these dark times!

And there’s a slim glimmer of hope! The Evil Eudyptulan Empire was defeated tonight! Flyers beat the Pens! (Eudyptula is the scientific classification name of the “Little Fairy Penguin” which translates to “Good little Diver”!)

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 04:18:30 +0000

Going dark meant blackening the site theme and making it gloomy as to exaggerate the direness of the team’s situation in order to end it. Is it not darker now? Yucks on us.

By: Dominic

Dominic — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 03:33:42 +0000

You have mathematically made me worry less. I love that He Who Must Not Be Named is on your page now. I died laughing. When we came in the league in 74, didn’t we lose like 20 in a row? Don’t get me wrong, i’m only 20 years old, but still.