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Shooting Percentage: Expected vs Actual Based on Time since Last Shot
I spend a lot of time making lists and obscure statistical arguments about playoff-bound teams these days, but I rarely look at what I like to call "basic research". Well, here's one for my more statistically-inclined readers. Since the early days of the "shot quality" concept, people have been...
League Leaders: Takeaways, Penalties Drawn and Rebounds
Yesterday, I listed the league leaders in deflections since the lockout. Three other statistics that may convey offensive ability around the net are offensive zone takeaways, offensive zone penalties drawn and rebounds. Let's go through the league leaders in order. There aren't a tremendous...
Top Scorers on Rebounds, 2005-09
The NHL statistical database has been consistent for the four seasons since the lockout (Missed Shots were excluded in the two seasons prior to it). Here are the rebound scoring leaders: Player Shot G SOG MSParise 73 22 41 10Svatos 49 20 23 6E Staal 81 19 50 12Frolov 53 18 28 7Antropov 50 17 26...
Left-handed comebacks: How good will Francis, De La Rosa, Smith and Morales be?
So the direction my NL West preview posts have been taking me leads me to believe that a good part of the Rockies fate in 2009 lies largely in four left arms, namely those of starters Jeff Francis, Jorge De La Rosa, Greg Smith and Franklin Morales and how well they are able to fill three slots in...
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