Comments on: Epic Stats: How the Caps Look After 25 Games

By: Russian Mafia | Puck Buddys

Russian Mafia | Puck Buddys — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:25:56 +0000

[...] between gleeful self-promotion and villainous sociopathy, so we take that to heart. So that, plus Peter’s epic stat-tastic data set analysis matrix (or whatever) have convinced us today we’re going to play it down the line.Yup, right… directly, [...]

By: sonja n a

sonja n a — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:01:00 +0000

Hey … this is great. While not as sophisticated as Greenburg’s, I can thoroughly understand your numbers and probably even go on to discuss them with someone else (if the opportunity were to arise). Excellent explanations …

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:47:00 +0000

Ugg you’re right!

It was goals for and shots for. I fixed it. I’m really sorry for the mistake.

Thanks for the check!

By: Yvk

Yvk — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:30:00 +0000

Something wrong between description and 1st Table:
“Finally, let’s group games 1-10 and games 11-20 together to see if we can notice a decline in even-strength goals for (EVGF) and even-strength goals against (EVSF)…”

There are not match each other. Maybe you meant, even-strength shots for??

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 04:25:00 +0000

Thanks, Jess. I’ll certainly revisit this to compare BB to DH sometime in the future.

By: JessHughes

JessHughes — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 02:56:00 +0000

Peter — Great job! It reminds me of 2 truisms: the plural of anecdote is not evidence and lies, d*mn lies, and statistics. I really liked how you went out of your way to explain the assumptions underlying your data. Hope to see something like this (with more positive results for the Caps) around the All-Star game.

By: GingerLover

GingerLover — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 02:34:00 +0000

Wow that was fast. Thanks!

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 02:30:00 +0000

Ooh I did! The Caps aren’t committing minor penalties more than other teams.
http://www.nhl.com/ice/teamstats.htm?fetchKey=20122ALLSAAAll&sort=minorPenalties&viewName=penalties 10th lowest in the league. If Semin can straighten up, they’ll be among the very best.

By: GingerLover

GingerLover — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 02:25:00 +0000

How about looking at PK minutes overall and how that might influence win-loss record. PPGA might not be having a large effect, but wasting all of our special teams players’ gas on PKing might be. Just a thought.

By: Jimmy Milstead

Jimmy Milstead — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 02:05:00 +0000

It will be interesting to see after the next 25 games. Can we do it again? Great work!