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Shootouts: Goaltender True Talent
As an add-on to my previous piece in shooter talent, I wanted to apply the same methodology to goaltender performance on shootouts. First, let's see if performance in 2005-06 predicted future pe...
Charts of the Day
This chart shows the percentage of regular season NHL games that were decided in regulation time, going back to the 1967-68 expansion. The introduction of overtime in the 1983-84 season did noth...
What if? Shooting at 5-on-3 or with the goalie pulled...
I've really come to like the "what if?" shooting analysis. Sunny Mehta put the idea in my head in his guest post on Forward vs Defense shooting percentage over at Irreverent Oiler Fans. Th...
Shootout Length: Model vs Actual
Here is the data from 2005-2009 shootouts compared to my simple model (assume all shooters have a 33% chance of scoring.) Short shootouts are far more likely to occur than predicted:This isn't surpris...
Average Number of Shots in the Shootout
A friend of mine asked me how many shots their were in an average shootout. I'll admit that I gave a wildly incorrect guess, but I wanted to know the answer to his question, so I wrote a little simula...
The dangers of Overtime Losses
While the shootout and the overtime loss have probably made the NHL more exciting for fans, the way they're presented in the standings has made it very difficult to determine how good a team is. Right...
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