Stat Shot A Fans Guide To Hockey Analytics

Author : Rob Vollman
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1773052500
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stat Shot: A Fan’s Guide to Hockey Analytics written by Rob Vollman and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With every passing season, statistical analysis is playing an ever-increasing role in how hockey is played and covered. Knowledge of the underlying numbers can help fans stretch their enjoyment of the game. Acting as an invaluable supplement to traditional analysis, Stat Shot: A Fan’s Guide to Hockey Analytics can be used to test the validity of conventional wisdom and to gain insight into what teams are doing behind the scenes — or maybe what they should be doing! Inspired by Bill James’s Baseball Abstract, Rob Vollman has written a timeless reference of the mainstream applications and limitations of hockey analytics. With over 300 pages of fresh analysis, it includes a guide to the basics, how to place stats into context, how to translate data from one league to another, the most comprehensive glossary of hockey statistics, and more. Whether A Fan’s Guide to Hockey Analytics is used as a primer for today’s new statistics, as a reference for leading edge research and hard-to-find statistical data, or read for its passionate and engaging storytelling, it belongs on every serious fan’s bookshelf. A Fan’s Guide to Hockey Analytics makes advanced stats simple, practical, and fun.

Author : Rob Vollman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781770414129
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stat Shot written by Rob Vollman and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following on his 2016 bestseller, Rob Vollman introduces the basics of hockey statistics to fans without a background in technical analysis. Stat Shot: A Fan's Guide to Hockey Analytics is a primer on data-driven fandom that's as insightful as it is fun.

Author : Vollman, Rob
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1770909230
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hockey Abstract Presents... Stat Shot written by Vollman, Rob and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making advanced stats simple, practical, and fun for hockey fans Advanced stats give hockeyÍs powerbrokers an edge, and now fans can get in on the action. Stat Shot is a fun and informative guide hockey fans can use to understand and enjoy what analytics says about team building, a playerÍs junior numbers, measuring faceoff success, recording save percentage, the most one-sided trades in history, and everything you ever wanted to know about shot-based metrics. Acting as an invaluable supplement to traditional analysis, Stat Shot can be used to test the validity of conventional wisdom, and to gain insight into what teams are doing behind the scenes „ or maybe what they should be doing. Whether looking for a reference for leading-edge research and hard-to-find statistical data, or for passionate and engaging storytelling, Stat Shot belongs on every serious hockey fanÍs bookshelf.

Author : Rob Vollman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781525229770
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stat Shot written by Rob Vollman and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for Player Usage Charts and his record-breaking ESPN Insider contributions, Rob Vollman was first published in the fall 2001 issue of the Hockey Research Journal and has since co-authored 10 books in the Hockey Abstract, Hockey Prospectus, and McKeen's magazine series. He writes for NHL.com, and lives in Calgary, Alberta. Tom Awad is a Montreal-based electrical engineer who loves applying numbers to his job, hockey, and anything else he can get his hands on. He has co-authored six previous books on hockey analytics. Iain Fyffe created Hockeythink (originally Puckerings), the first dedicated hockey analytics site, in 2001. He has served as editor of the Hockey Research Journal and was a co-author of the books Hockey Prospectus 2011 and 2012 and Hockey Abstract 2014, as well as the author of On His Own Side of the Puck. He lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick

Author : Shane Frederick
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1543506070
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hockey Is a Numbers Game written by Shane Frederick and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does "true plus/minus" have to do with hockey greatness? More than you think. In this fun and smart look at basketball, you will discover stories and uncover facts that will help you better understand and enjoy every pass, dribble, and shot all the more.

Author : Ken Reid
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1773052268
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hockey Card Stories 2 written by Ken Reid and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A follow-up to the 2014 national bestseller Hockey Card Stories, Ken Reid’s new offering presents 59 more stories about your favorite hockey cards from the players themselves. Hockey Card Stories 2 will take you all the way back to the 1960s and right up to the Hockey Card Boom of the 1990s. How did Eric Lindros handle being at the center of the 1990s rookie-card craze? Ever wonder why one tough guy’s Upper Deck card looks more like a High School yearbook picture than a sports card? Of course, once again, there are glorious mullets, errors, and broken noses. There’s even the story of how a rhinoceros and a Hall of Famer ended up on a card together. And as a special bonus, Ken Reid reveals the story behind the chase for his greatest hockey card.

Author : Bruce Dowbiggin
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1773052381
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cap in Hand written by Bruce Dowbiggin and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iconic baseball writer Bill James, in 1987, frustrated with MLB’s labor stoppages and the decline of the minor leagues, wrote that the minors “were an abomination … if you’re selling a sport and the players don’t care about winning, that’s not a sport. That’s a fraud … an exhibition masquerading as a contest.” Bill imagined a better model and proposed that, as opposed to limiting the number of teams in MLB to protect parity, a free market was capable of sustaining many more franchises — hundreds, even — if we would just allow it to sort out the level at which those cities might best compete. Cap in Hand goes a step further, arguing that a free market in sports teams and athletes once existed and could work again if the monopolists of MLB, NFL, NBA, and NHL would simply relent from salary-restraint schemes and reserve-clause models that result in elite talent being spread as thinly as possible and mediocrity being rewarded via amateur drafts and equalization payments. In fact, the model for this exists and may be the most wildly popular and monetarily successful of all professional sports: European football. Cap In Hand asks: what if the four major North American pro sports move beyond the restrictive covenants of the franchise model? The product sold to fans today is a pale copy of what it might be if the market could guide the best players to the best teams, whose ingenuity and innovation would inspire everyone to do better and put on a better show.

Author : Rob Vollman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781490493039
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rob Vollman's Hockey Abstract written by Rob Vollman and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Statistical analysis is coming to hockey in a wave very similar to the one that hit baseball years ago. To prepare the baseball world for the boom in statistics, they needed a guide book that could act as a foundation, and that was Bill James' Baseball Abstract. Hockey, too, needs that guide book: a Hockey Abstract that can show how the sport can be viewed through that same type of objective lens that James brought to baseball. At last, it is here.Hockey Abstract is not a textbook, but a guide for how to use analytics to study hockey. Ten questions are answered in a fun and informative way, including who is the best player, goalie or coach, which team will finish first next year, and which was the most lopsided trade in history. Each answer is built on the common foundation of certain key statistics and concepts that are explained in almost as many pages and chapters at the back.Whether you use it as a reference for leading edge research and hard-to-find statistical data, including Vollman's famous Player Usage Charts, or whether you read it for his passionate and engaging story-telling, Hockey Abstract belongs on every serious hockey's fan's bookshelf.

Author : Alain Haché
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421417936
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slap Shot Science written by Alain Haché and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fast-paced look at the fascinating science that explains the game of hockey. From the moment the first player steps onto the ice, every conceivable principle of science is in play. To understand hockey—fully understand it—Alain Haché argues that you must first learn how ice reacts to a passing blade, how the trajectory and aerodynamics of the puck affect its chances of getting into the net, how the tension on the stick transfers energy to the puck, and dozens of other details of the game. Slap Shot Science is an under-the-hood, behind-the-scenes, action-packed romp through special moments in the game as seen from the perspective of science and explained in a way everyone can understand. Among the topics Haché discusses are the differences between real ice and synthetic ice, the perfect amount of sharpness for a skate, how goalies can make spectacular saves even though the puck is traveling 100 miles per hour, whether players are skating faster today than in years past, and how equipment prevents many serious injuries. Slap Shot Science shows us how statistics can predict future performance by players and teams and why they can also be misused in many ways. By the close of the book you’ll see hockey in a more sophisticated and scientific light, and the reasons things happen the way they do will be clearer than ever.

Author : Rob Vollman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781974229017
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rob Vollman's Hockey Abstract 2017 written by Rob Vollman and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hockey Abstract 2017: Making advanced stats simple, practical, and fun for hockey fans.With every passing season, statistical analysis is playing an ever-increasing role in how the game is played, and how it is covered. While we fans can continue to enjoy the sport without doing any math, knowledge of the underlying numbers can help stretch that enjoyment. Hockey Abstract 2017 is not a textbook, nor is it a book about statistics. It is a book about hockey, that uses statistics. Acting as an invaluable supplement to traditional analysis, Hockey Abstract 2017 can be used to test the validity of the conventional wisdom, and to gain insight into what teams are doing behind the scenes --- or maybe what they should be doing!Inspired by Bill James' Baseball Abstract, Hockey Abstract 2017 is not an annual guide to read once and place on a shelf, but a timeless reference of the mainstream applications and limitations of hockey analytics.The fourth book in the series, Hockey Abstract 2017 contains over 300 pages of fresh analysis, including new player usage charts and analysis for all 31 NHL teams -- including the Vegas Golden Knights expansion team. Hockey fans both new and experienced with hockey analytics can use this as a guide to understand and enjoy the statistical perspective on topics such as the impact of rookies, what makes a power play successful, why rebuilds fail, what artificial intelligence and hockey analytics have in common, how injuries can be predicted, and who is the NHL's best goalie, passer, clutch scorer, hitter, shot-blocker, faceoff specialist, penalty-drawer, and value-priced player. There are also breakdowns of more topical questions, like why Washington loses in the playoffs, and who won the Weber-Subban trade. Whether you use Hockey Abstract 2017 as a primer for today's new statistics, as a reference for leading edge research and hard-to-find statistical data, or whether you read it for its passionate and engaging story-telling, Hockey Abstract 2017 belongs on every serious hockey fan's bookshelf.