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FIFA World Cup: Expected Goals in games thus far
If we take the shots taken in the games so far and add up the expected shooting percentage based on their locations, we can come up with an estimate of how many goals each team should have scored. Her...
The NHL's Best (Even-Strength) Shooters, 2005-09
I put together a stats sheet at the beginning of the year looking at individual player shooting. I estimated the expected number of goals that each player should have scored each year based on t...
The Leafs' PK: Does it suck this much?
I won't keep you in suspense. Yes, it does. Toronto actually spends a below-average amount of time at 4-on-5, but that's primarily because they give up so many goals that their penalty-kil...
Even-Strength Goaltender Shot Quality since the Lockout
Shot Quality is an idea that's been around for quite a while - Alan Ryder's original study is available here (PDF). I found a little bit more data than Alan had originally, so I''ve written abou...
What's the matter with Madison Square Garden?
You don't normally think of "rink effects" like "park effects" in baseball. Sure, there were the smaller ice surfaces at the old Boston Garden (191x83), or the Buffalo Auditorium (194x84), or th...
For fans of Shot Quality...
We now have four years of consistent shot data since the lockout, which gives us x-y location data for all goals, shots on goal and missed shots (among many other things.) I've previously used t...
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