WAR On Ice: The Blog

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....

http://blog.war-on-ice.com/annotated-glossary/

We will no longer be making updates to nhlscrapr on CRAN; instead you can get the most recent version from the war-on-ice repository on GitHub. To use this, you’ll need to install the library ...

http://blog.war-on-ice.com/nhlscrapr-updates-now-on-github/

Different goaltenders face different distributions of shots from across the ice due to the offenses they face and the defenses in front of them. We adjust save percentage by re-weighing the compo...

http://blog.war-on-ice.com/a-quick-note-on-adjusted-save-percentage/

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 kn...

http://blog.war-on-ice.com/building-the-team/

Back in March, I met Darryl Metcalf for the first time at the Sloan conference. We were talking about how we had advertised that we would be open with our data and infrastructure, and he said so...

http://blog.war-on-ice.com/sharing-is-caring/

Entry names and final scores listed below. Entry.Name Score Perfect 0 Don’t Toews Me Bro! 6.8716238602 The Brass Bonanza 7.0910481644 microdino 7.2444384897 Corsi Hockey League 7.2457407713 Sea...

http://blog.war-on-ice.com/playoffs-prediction-contest-scoreboard/

Summary: go to http://war-on-ice.com/cap/ to see what we’ve put together. Read below for what we have to share. Back in January when CapGeek went offline, we grabbed a series of contract piec...

http://blog.war-on-ice.com/recapped-geek/

We at war-on-ice.com built this site together for two reasons: to disseminate our own research ideas and purposes, and to have tools that everyone can use for their own research. To clarify o...

http://blog.war-on-ice.com/site-terms-of-use/

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...

http://blog.war-on-ice.com/bombay-ratings/

Enter Here:  Submit your entry for the 2015 WAR On Ice Stanley Cup Playoff Prediction Contest (Round 1) here.  Rules are below. Entries:  Only one entry permitted per person.  Violators to th...

http://blog.war-on-ice.com/stanley-cup-prediction-contest/