How You Can Help
We’re gratified by all the people who a) ask how they can help us out, and/or b) tell us what’s wrong with the site. This is intended to be a community resource, so the more constructive feedback we...
View ArticleSummary of Site Upgrades, November 17 2014
We’ve made a few big changes to the site in the last little while that we’re testing out right now. Recent upgrades include: An overhaul of Hextally for teams and players, to better interface with the...
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Changes Afoot
We’ve recently been integrating a lot of new data into the site, with more to come. But we have some major changes to announce as things move forward. 1) The big one: we now have x,y data for all shot...
View ArticleNEW: Annual salary/compensation data for skaters
When CapGeek founder Matthew Wuest announced on Saturday that he was shutting the site down for personal health reasons, we were doubly saddened, for the well-being of an important member of the...
View ArticleRecapGeek
We announced yesterday on Twitter that we’ve been working to rebuild the capacities of CapGeek from the ground up. Our biggest issue is taking raw contract information from a primary source and turning...
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GUEST POST: Hockey And Euclid — Calculating Statistical Similarity Between...
Editor’s note: This is a guest post written by Emmanuel Perry. Manny recently created a Shiny app for calculating statistical similarities between NHL players using data from www.war-on-ice.com. The...
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GUEST POST: Hockey and Euclid — Introduction to Bombay Ratings
Note: This is part two of a series of guest posts written by @MannyElk. In the first installment of Hockey and Euclid, Manny outlined the player similarity calculation used in the Similarity...
View ArticleBuilding the Team
The WAR On Ice operation is looking for new people to help keep the site operations going. Can we count on you? We have a few objectives with the site, moving forward: Keep data accessible. We know...
View ArticleAnnotated Glossary
Note (Nov 27, 2015): As a blanket disclaimer, we didn’t define most of the terms or notations used on this site. These are all products of the community, both as individuals and as collectives. Our...
View ArticleIntroductions
Who We Are We are Andrew C. Thomas (@acthomasca) and Samuel L. Ventura (@stat_sam), statisticians by training, at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Andrew was born in Toronto; Sam in...
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