I spent a lot of the time in the lead up to the season tracking old games and getting the behind the scenes structures prepped for a full season of tracked games.
I started doing something similar, and just realized that I'm not Corey, and so why not just pay his Bedard tier to get something truly exclusive? Still, I love the spirit. I still feel like expected goals on target is something hockey could use. Another thing I'd love to see is the efficacy of different systems. What's the percentage on a 2-1-2 forecheck retrieving the puck or creating turnovers with numbers versus without? How effective is zone defense versus the swarm when weighing clean breakouts? Etc. I suspect you've read Thibaud Chatel's piece on tracking data since you obviously know puck, but just in case: https://thibaudchatel.substack.com/p/how-to-track-hockey-games. I'm gonna focus on Dallas' power play this year since it was a big story last year, and I think there's something to potentially figuring out where systems constrain personnel, or maybe even where personnel constrains the system. All the same, keep up the truly inspired work here.
I have indeed read Chatel's piece! So good man all of his NHLe and draft stuff is awesome to follow.
I don't know how Corey and Mitch do so much tracking, it's insane. I just want the data so bad! It would be so be able to track differences in performance throughout the year. I think that game to game tracking would also be so crucial for determining performance within systems, something I definitely want to better understand too. Just feels like you'd need a fleet of game trackers to have enough data on how systems clash against eachother and how the players within it. For now it's just like listen to Darryl Belfy and Jack Han talk about it and see where you can see echoes of their words in the data.
Excited to follow your work on Dallas and the powerplay!
I started doing something similar, and just realized that I'm not Corey, and so why not just pay his Bedard tier to get something truly exclusive? Still, I love the spirit. I still feel like expected goals on target is something hockey could use. Another thing I'd love to see is the efficacy of different systems. What's the percentage on a 2-1-2 forecheck retrieving the puck or creating turnovers with numbers versus without? How effective is zone defense versus the swarm when weighing clean breakouts? Etc. I suspect you've read Thibaud Chatel's piece on tracking data since you obviously know puck, but just in case: https://thibaudchatel.substack.com/p/how-to-track-hockey-games. I'm gonna focus on Dallas' power play this year since it was a big story last year, and I think there's something to potentially figuring out where systems constrain personnel, or maybe even where personnel constrains the system. All the same, keep up the truly inspired work here.
I have indeed read Chatel's piece! So good man all of his NHLe and draft stuff is awesome to follow.
I don't know how Corey and Mitch do so much tracking, it's insane. I just want the data so bad! It would be so be able to track differences in performance throughout the year. I think that game to game tracking would also be so crucial for determining performance within systems, something I definitely want to better understand too. Just feels like you'd need a fleet of game trackers to have enough data on how systems clash against eachother and how the players within it. For now it's just like listen to Darryl Belfy and Jack Han talk about it and see where you can see echoes of their words in the data.
Excited to follow your work on Dallas and the powerplay!
Seems hard to do consistently. I don't think I could do it.