Nation Network Mock Draft: Final Rankings
Jonathan Willis
June 15 2013 07:04AM
Over the past few days, the readers of the various sites in the Nation Network have been voting on their rankings of prospects for the 2013 NHL Entry Draft. Today, we reveal the results.
Nation Network 2013 Mock Draft: Day 3
Jonathan Willis
June 14 2013 10:10AM
The Nation Network’s 2013 Mock Draft continues, with the close of the first round.
Thoughts on the Roman Josi contract
Cam Charron
June 13 2013 01:01PM
If you've been reading me for a couple years, you'd know by now that I have a lot of respect for David Poile and Don Maloney, two general managers who had consecutive playoff appearances despite playing in small markets without big-name stars. Those teams are the Nashville Predators and Phoenix Coyotes, respectively, but you could probably add in Doug Armstrong of the St. Louis Blues and Garth Snow of the New York Islanders. The Blues were a floor team this season, won 29 games (4th in the NHL) after a year they won 49 games (also 4th in the NHL). They'll probably have a higher salary cap this season, because they have four of their stars needing new contracts, but they drafted and developed possibly better than any team in the league, finding lots of hidden gems in the later parts of the first round.
Nation Network 2013 Mock Draft: Day 2
Jonathan Willis
June 13 2013 10:14AM
Yesterday we asked readers network-wide to vote their choices for the first 10 slots in this year’s entry draft. The results are in; which teams landed which players?
Steering advanced regression tools towards modern hockey thought
Eric T.
June 12 2013 12:20PM
Tyler Dellow recently observed that hockey analysis is encountering a problem that has been a significant issue for analysts in other sports.
In short, the community does not get as much out of people with expert technical knowledge about statistical analysis as it could because those people are often unaware of much excellent work that has been published on blogs and therefore direct their high-powered tools towards outdated problems.
Yesterday on Twitter, an academic paper ("Estimating player contribution in hockey with regularized logistic regression") made the rounds and received some criticism. I have emailed the authors to make suggestions in the hopes of helping get them up to speed on what is already known so that their future analyses can do more to advance the community.
The text of that email is below.
