Yesterday I wrote that Corsi is better at predicting future goals than expected goals are. This post is going to be a brief update on that and I’m going to get right to the point, so if you want more details about theory, methods, etc. I recommend reading the first post. In that first post …
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Corsi Is Better At Predicting Future Goals Than Expected Goals Is
This is going to be a long post, so I’m going to front-load the top line results (with a little bit of history) and then get into a longer discussion of some of the details after that for anyone who is interested. One of the earliest and arguably still most important discoveries in hockey statistics …
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Do NHL Teams Get Better Goaltending By Spending More Money?
The other day on Twitter I said this: This is a topic I’ve briefly looked into in the past, and I’ve posted the results to Twitter, but I deleted all my old tweets at one point and that data is gone, so I figured I’d try to do some work on this question again, and …
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