Sporting Musings

The Importance of Powerplay Offense

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analysis
Last week, Travis Yost over at TSN wrote about the increase in correlation between powerplay effectiveness and overall team success. The natural conclusion is that an…
Aug 13, 2024
Carmen Ciardiello

 

Score-Effect Remnants

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analysis
A playoff game between the Rangers and Hurricanes on May 16th, 2024 sparked a question in regards to score effects. This was the deciding game in the series, a series in…
Aug 8, 2024
Carmen Ciardiello

Can We Identify Poor Postseason Performers?

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analysis
The Toronto Maple Leafs’ exit from the Stanley Cup Playoffs led to another round of fans and media alike casting aspersions on Toronto’s top players, notably Mitch Marner.…
May 25, 2024
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Countering Opponent Flurries

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analysis
A recent question in an excellent breakdown of the Vegas/Dallas first round series on the Hockey PDOcast prior to game 6 sprung me into action and inspired this brief post.…
May 6, 2024
Carmen Ciardiello

Commentary on Secondary Assists

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analysis
A recent question from the Hockey PDOCast Discord (link is in the show notes if you want jump in) about the usefulness of secondary assists across the overall population of…
Mar 11, 2024
Carmen Ciardiello

NHL Primary Matchup Utilization

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analysis
A recent tweet thread from Micah Blake McCurdy, one of the foremost practitioners of public-facing hockey analysis, sparked an idea that I thought was worth researching.…
Jan 24, 2024
Carmen Ciardiello

Robert Stephenson’s Cutter

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analysis
A recent tweet from Lance Brozdowski where he wonders whether the change Robert Stephenson made going from Pittsburgh to Tampa was the result of altering the velocity of his…
Jan 21, 2024
Carmen Ciardiello

Developing a Predictive wOBA Measure

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analysis
modeling
Recently I read a blog post from Tom Tango at his personal site where he constructs a more predictive version of wOBA. I encourage you to give it a read, but I will quickly…
Jan 3, 2024
Carmen Ciardiello

Hockey Microstats Repeatability

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analysis
The proliferation of “microstats” in the public space has been a boon in our understanding of hockey players. These stats include entries/exits (the concept and tracking of…
Jan 1, 2024
Carmen Ciardiello

Hitter Velocity Splits

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analysis
One avenue of analysis I see most around the postseason when individual batter-pitcher matchups or team matchups are more heavily scrutinized is bucketing offensive…
Jan 1, 2024
Carmen Ciardiello
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