Billionaire owners of social media companies don't seem to understand this either

New feature on NLLStats.com: Officials. Without officials, we would have no games, so they deserve some love too. Now you can see which officials have covered the most games, and list which games each ref has worked. nllstats.com/allOfficials

I have a Google Calendar for the NLL schedule, which I just updated with the games for the 2025-2026 season! It's here: bit.ly/NLLCalendar

For those of you not on Twitter, here are the big-name NLL free agent signings announced over the last 2 days: Curtis Dickson -> VAN Eric Fannell -> PHI Chase Fraser -> LV Jesse King -> VAN Kyle Rubisch -> OSH Brendan Bomberry -> HFX Chris Cloutier -> LV Tony Malcom -> LV

So there have been a bunch of big-name forwards, transition guys, and defenders signed in NLL free agency so far. Too bad there aren't any big-name goalies who are free agents.

New feature on NLLStats.com: When showing the list of all players from a previous season, there is now a checkbox to show only the players who are still active. Want to see who played in 2009 and is still active? nllstats.com/allplayers?s... Works for goalies too!

New feature on nllstats.com: team offense and defense totals. You can now see team totals for offensive and defensive stats. Want to see what team led the league in blocked shots in 2025? (ROC) How about Save %? (VAN) nllstats.com/teamoffense nllstats.com/teamdefense

NLLStats.com update: I've made some changes to improve performance. There should not be any actual changes to the site itself, but things should be faster. Please let me know what you think

NLL schedule analysis: Teams with 5 bye weeks: GEO, PHI, ROC, SD Teams with 2 double weekends: GEO, PHI, ROC, SD Teams with 3 two-week gaps: ROC Teams with three-week gaps: SD, VAN Best schedule: TOR - byes in weeks 2, 4, 6, then exactly 1 game per week for the rest of the year

2025 Offseason report, Part I It’s been a busy off-season so far, and there’s lots more to come. Because we don’t have a CBA for next season, teams aren’t allowed to sign free agents yet though they’re allowed to talk to them. I’m sure many handshake agreements have been made and once we have a…

Alice In Flip Flops

New feature on NLL Stats: Game coaches - only available for *most* games from 2017-2025 - coaches are only listed in game sheets as "head coach", "assistant coach", or in a few cases "goalie coach". There are no "defensive coach" or "offensive coach" entries

The Streak: The story of the 1992-1994 Buffalo Bandits Many NLL fans these days have heard the story that the Buffalo Bandits had a long winning streak back in the early 90’s that lasted an entire season. It’s true, but there’s more to it than just that. Let’s have a look the facts of this amazing…

Future Hall of Famers, Part II Recently I wrote about non-players who deserve consideration for induction to the NLL Hall of Fame once their careers are over. In that article, I covered owners as well as broadcasters and today I’m going to cover GMs, coaches and officials.

Future Hall of Famers, Part I The National Lacrosse League Hall of Fame is a very important place. It contains players, coaches, GMs, journalists, and officials that have had a significant effect on the league during their careers. However, it’s also not a place at all, in the sense that there is…

Well said Scott. Read this whole thread. As a Canadian, I have sometimes felt a bit insulated from the insanity going on in American politics, but there are a lot of Canadians who would love a Trump clone to run Canada and then we'd be in the same boat. Again, there but for the grace of God...

Going back a coupla years, but Collective Soul fits

2025 NLL Playoffs: Finals week two The 2025 NLL season is over. Congratulations to the Buffalo Bandits, who became the second team in NLL history to win three straight Championships with an impressive 15–6 victory over the Saskatchewan Rush. My prediction for game three of the finals was not…

2025 NLL Playoffs: Finals week one Only one game left. The Rush refused to be taken out in two games, and the Bandits lost their first playoff game in almost two years (Game 2 of their Championship series against the Mammoth in 2023). The 2025 season is now down to one game, next Saturday…

2025 NLL Playoffs: Semi-finals week two There was only one game this past weekend but it was an exciting game, particularly the crazy ending. The finals are now set and will feature the Buffalo Bandits hosting the Saskatchewan Rush in a rematch of the 2016 finals. The Rush won that series in two…

2025 NLL Semifinals – week one And then there were three. Christian Del Bianco and the Vancouver Warriors played two strong games, but Matt Vinc and the Bandits were just too much for them and the Bandits swept their semi-final series. Buffalo will now need to wait a week to see who they will host…

New on NLLStats.com: This day in history nllstats.com/standings

2025 NLL Quarterfinals We are through the first round of 2025 playoff games. Home fans in all four cities were sent home happy as the higher seeds prevailed in each quarterfinal game, and the semifinal matchups are set. The defending champion Buffalo Bandits will take on the unbeaten-in-seven…

Why your team will/won’t win the 2025 NLL Championship For all you fans of NLL teams that are not in the playoffs, or maybe those of you who want to bet some bucks on the NLL playoffs, here is a handy reference guide for why each playoff team may or may not win the Championship.

2025 NLL Week 21 That will do it for the 2025 regular season. Seems like just a few weeks ago we were getting ready to start the season and now it’s already over. But of course, the playoffs are an entirely different beast, and even though there are no more than thirteen games left before the long…

2025 NLL Week 20 Another exciting weekend in the NLL, and we’re a little closer to knowing the final playoff positions. We now know that Buffalo has clinched first overall, Saskatchewan is second, third and fourth will go to two of Halifax, Rochester, Vancouver, and Calgary (though Calgary can’t…

2025 NLL Week 19 A couple of surprises this week as the Desert Dogs beat the Rock in OT and almost knock them out of the playoffs, the Wings break their losing streak, and the Roughnecks shut down the Rush’s offense, particularly in the second half. The Bandits return to the win column, the…

Is 2025 the year of the backup goaltender? Every year, we see some great performances by backup goaltenders, forced to come into a game early or to make a start because the regular starter is unavailable. I have no stats on this at all (I know, that’s not like me) but it seems to me that there…

2025 NLL Week 18 We’re a little closer to knowing the playoff picture but incredibly, the only thing that was decided this past weekend was that the Rush have clinched a home playoff game. Buffalo and Saskatchewan are now tied for first, with Buffalo holding the tiebreaker, but there are still six…

My hope is that most days, the NLL Fact of the Day is something at least mildly interesting, and occasionally fascinating. Today's is one of those goofy ones that I sometimes do just because I have the data.

2025 NLL Week 17 The March to May continues and the playoff races got a little tighter this past weekend. Buffalo and Saskatchewan have clinched playoff spots and Las Vegas has been eliminated, but everyone else is still in the mix. Obviously some teams are in better shape than others, so it’s…

New feature on NLLStats.com: the list of all players / goalies now has a "Rookies only" checkbox. And you should just be able to refresh the page to see it - you shouldn't have to clear your cache first nllstats.com/allplayers

Game report: Philadelphia @ Toronto On Saturday night, Toronto and Philadelphia could have switched team names. The Rock were flying while the Wings dropped like a stone.

Attendance draw: who are the most popular visiting teams? I’ve written about attendance in the NLL a number of times over the years but one aspect that I have looked into but never written about is what I call “draw”. This has nothing to do with face-offs, we’re talking about how different teams…

2025 NLL Week 16 Another busy weekend in the NLL with seven games. Blowouts were the name of the game this weekend, as four of the seven games featured a team that led by at least nine goals and three of them led by eleven. To balance things out, we had a one-goal game and a two-goal game, but…

Trade frenzy on deadline day Trade deadline day in the NLL was pretty uneventful and boring… until it wasn’t. And then it really really wasn’t. First, former MVP and Goaltender of the Year Christian Del Bianco was sent to the Vancouver Warriors for defender Brayden Laity and some pretty high draft…

2025 NLL Week 15 It’s hard to believe we’re talking playoff positioning already. It seems like the season just started a few weeks ago but we’re at week 15 now. Nobody has clinched a playoff spot or has been eliminated, but we’re getting close. Lots of awesome stuff happened this week, and there…

New on NLL Stats: primary and secondary assist totals are now available on player lists, player pages, and team pages. Where it's available, there is a "show additional stats" checkbox

2025 NLL Week 14 The battle for first place was won by the Bandits… for now. There were low-scoring games all over the place in week 14 - only one of the five games featured more than 21 goals, and two of them had both teams held under 10. Unsurprisingly, goaltending is featured in a number of my…

Trades: Rose, de Snoo, Corbeil, Cattoni, Simpson, Jackson We saw a few significant trades this past week, notably two huge ones involving the Toronto Rock as well as another significant one involving the Wings and Desert Dogs. Then on Saturday, the Seals and FireWolves made a deal. The Toronto…

NLL Tiebreakers One of the more confusing parts of watching the standings during the March to May is dealing with tiebreakers. If two or more teams are tied, how do we break that tie and decide on the position of each team in the standings? During the season, it doesn’t really matter much, but if…

Miles Thompson has a goal tonight assisted by Lyle and Jeremy. It's the fourth time there has been a three-Thompson goal in the NLL, but the first time that Jeremy was involved. Miles scored one of the other three (in 2017) and Haina (Jerome) has two (2018 and 2019).

Faceoffs don’t matter because they do The question of whether faceoffs “matter” in the NLL has come up many times over the years. I’ve tried to answer it myself statistically a couple of times, and the result of my most recent investigation (with help from Cooper Perkins) showed that if your team…

Interesting article coming tomorrow on NLL Chatter about faceoffs. I will be arguing that they don't matter precisely because they do.

Trade revisited: Rose to the Rock Rock goalie Nick Rose was traded to the Calgary Roughnecks earlier today. I’ll probably talk about that particular trade, as well as any other upcoming trades (several of which are rumoured), in another article later but today we’re going to look at how Rose came…

2025 NLL Week 13-14 This week’s report combined weeks 13 and 14 since I was away on vacation last week. The Bandits are no longer undefeated but are still in first place, the Rush and Thunderbirds are hot, the Wings and Rock are not. We’re more than halfway through the season now and the playoff…

Cons of not going to the Rock game tonight - don't get to see live lacrosse - missed the chance to meet @tymerlax.bsky.social in person - no Brad Kri bobblehead Pros: - don't have to drive home after - not coughing on everyone around me - can watch in pyjamas - can watch other games at half

2025 NLL Week 11 It was Week of the Rookies in the NLL. One of the most anticipated rookies this year made his debut on the weekend, another highly anticipated rookie (and a teammate of the first one) scored one of the best goals of the year, and yet another rookie had his second strong offensive…

Note that Dhane Smith has played 215 games in his career. He's had at least five assists in almost 44% of them.

2025 NLL Week 10 Another busy week in the NLL with seven games, though not much really changed. The Bandits are still perfect, the Rock, Knighthawks, and Thunderbirds continue their climb back into the playoff race, the Swarm and Rush continue their strong seasons, and the Black Bears are still…