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Frequently Asked Questions #10: Wins Above Replacement
This is Part 10 in what I hope will be just a ten part series of answers to frequently asked questions about hockey analysis. Here are Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Par...
Replacement-Level Redux: Goals vs Wins
In the comments section for my previous post, Tom Tango pointed out that it would be interesting to see the breakdown of goals for and against when defensemen and forwards are missing from the lineup....
Replacement level: how many wins do injuries cost?
Replacement level can be a bit difficult to define in hockey. Unlike baseball, where Derek Jeter gets hurt and all his playing time goes to a guy who has yet to prove he can hit AAA pitching, an NHL p...
Do Defensemen influence Save Percentage?
[Note: this methodology is similar to a previous analysis of replacement level: http://www.behindthenet.ca/blog/2008/04/replacement-level-how-many-wins-do.html. It is obvious that teams do worse when ...
Defenseman's impact on Offense
I might as well re-run the previous post on the offensive end of the ice: IN OUT GP G/GP S+G/GP SVPCT GP G/GP S+G/GP SVPCT DELTAN=28 Better +/- 1610 1.89 21.77 913.3 686 1.71 21.16 919.1 5.8N=25 Worse...
Defenseman's Impact (cont'd...)
I was initially only going to look at the performance of replacement level defensemen to see if their inclusion in the lineup had any additional negative impact relative to that of losing a #1 or #2 d...
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