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Hockey analytics: it's a numbers game

Faculty Advisor

Date

2015

Keywords

Pythagorean Winning Percentage, hockey, statistics

Abstract (summary)

Join Allan Wesley as he discusses the importance of analytics and the application of the Pythagorean Winning Percentage, famously discussed in Moneyball (the bestselling book and movie about baseball analytics), to hockey. From there he will discuss statistics such as Corsi and Fenwick measures, and their implications for personnel decisions and strategy.

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Notes

Presented on January 30, 2015 at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics Torus Talks held at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta.

Item Type

Presentation

Language

English

Rights

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