I need to add a combined 2005-09 shooting stats tab.

I need to add individual game reports in the same style as on the Sabres pages.

Publish the data I have

From Derek Zona: "I don’t know how to go about this, but being that a portion of us have
to defend Horcoff on a daily basis, it’s made me take a couple of
cursory looks at replacement players in general, but more
specifically, specific replacement categories. Given Horcoff’s
qualcomp and zonestart, what is expected CORSI, GF/GA, shots, points,
if you replace him with a “1st line center”, what happens if you
replace him with a “replacement player”, what happens if you replace
him with a “tough minutes” center?

Then take that individual replacement value and fold it back into the team."

Tyler Bleszinski: “You might have already done this, but does the NHL keep track of the number of who is best in the league at deflections, even if it doesn’t go in?”

JP: “This isn’t team-specific, but I’ve always been interested in trying to quantify forechecking. Dirk helped me out with some data last year, and I put together a post on it, but it was an incomplete effort.
 
Granted, giveaways and takeaways are very subjective stats, but if they could be normalized and then you figured out which forwards were on the ice for the most offensive zone takeaways and giveaways by opponents in the D-zone, I’d think the list would be a decent indicator of who the best forecheckers are (or at least among teams that actually, y’know, forecheck). The flips side of this would be which D’s a coughing up the puck the most when under pressure (d-zone giveaways and opponents’ O-zone takeaways).”

Matthew Gunning:

1) Penalty Killing. Is this a function of the skill of the players or is it largely random or perhaps a function of team strategy. Are certain players consistently good at this even when they switch teams?

2) Effect of a PK going to the box. I did a post on “costly penalties” a couple of years ago. J.P. read my post and noted that it seemed like whenever a member of the Thrashers PK unit took a penalty the opposition was more likely to score. Sure enough that is the case, the opposition PK% rose to something like 25% when an Atlanta PKer went to the box. I’d love to see a breakdown of this for the entire NHL—but it requires coding each penalty by player and whether that player is a PK regular on his team.

3) Why do teams improve on defense from one season to another? Is it better goaltending, turnover in defensmen, a new coach, etc.

4) Most teams have 2 PP units. Is there a big drop off between the 1st unit and the 2nd one? This would be tough to code, but it is an interesting question.

Which teams get scored on the most in the first 90 seconds of a period? Last 90 seconds? 90 seconds after a goal?

It would be nice if there was a way to filter by more than Team, position, and TOI. Even if it was unwiedly, like each player had a unique number assigned and you could type those numbers into a form it would be nice to be able to compare whichever players you wanted directly. Maybe an option to turn columns on or off in the stats too?

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Loving the site.

Gabe,

I was curious how difficult it would be to add a function on your BtN site to look at only a certain segment of dates. So for example, I could look at how the QoC and Corsi results played out for the Oilers in 2008-09 before and after Visnovsky was injured. This year I could look at Frolov’s performance in LA in the two weeks before and two weeks after he was benched by Terry Murray. Etc., etc. Is this a reasonable request or is it way too much work?