Scoring chances (against) #Basements #Cigarettes #Cashews

You can't help but notice the positive correlation between penalties taken and drawn; I've been reworking my penalty model to see if I can finally satisfy myself about possible competing mechanisms that might cause it.

There are some gems/rares that I cannot write about in more than a sentence. And yet these are the ones that make up the majority. These will be the Christmas gifts for readers. Here is a small sample of my favorites. This is about a tenth of them.

If you stopped me on the street with a lapel mic inexplicably clipped to a household object and asked me "who among all the humans of the earth might be suffering from a case of the hiccups strong enough to require hallucigenic medications" I would say "jair bolsonaro" instantaneously.

Yesterday's games. A great showing by a lot of goaltenders.

Never realized cezanne was into hockey analytics.

In the spirit of encouraging the behaviour you want in your kids I've been replacing "is your room clean yet?" with "tell me a story of cleaning triumph". Results mixed as yet.

Yesterday's games:

My choir is putting on a concert! If you want to hear my [actual] sonorous baritones you can come to first baptist in four weeks or so: ukings.ca/events/kings...

Jupiter PJ67_25 Crop, Exaggerated Color/Contrast acquired by @NASAJuno from 27594 km at 2024-11-24T12:39:35

Yesterday's games:

They're also responsible for one of the best emails I've ever received, when the college office sent out a plea for sightings of Professor Biscuit while conveniently forgetting to mention that he was a cat...(I won't comment on how often a similar email might have gone out about human Professors...)

Fun facts...thus far this season, 28.2% of all NHL games (93/330) have required more than 60 min to sort. Here's how much it is happening to each team (home / away / total) ... 🤓

By request, here's a thread of books that I think make excellent gifts this holiday season (obviously they're cartographically inclined, you know me) 1. Best anthology "All Over the Map" by Betsy Mason and Greg Miller A gorgeous, full color history of maps mind-bending maps from around the world.

"To be fair" is the prefix to some of the least funny replies you'll ever read on social media

Yesterday's games:

Incidentally I like working with quantitative leverage data because it maps so closely to how fans /feel/ about the process of a game. The way that colours perception of other things is an interesting research project (or three) maybe.

"Home bias is caused by home crowds" + "Crowds are xG models that talk" + "natural human tendency to weight quality by leverage" + "feeling aggrieved makes crowds lowder" gives you a pretty natural mechanism for ref bias in penalty calling to be actually driven by crowds.

Obviously going to be a good read

There's something about the pacing of twitter 1.0 threads that's permanently wedged in my brain. Like a free verse clerihew.

Prairie Cinders Watercolor and gouache on paper, 9x11.75” 2024

Some interesting thoughts about the Oilers offensive tactics here. One corroborating piece is that the Oilers this year are anemic generating chances when tied, but when up by one (when the rush chances are easier to come by) suddenly good!

two levels of truchet tiles superposed on an icosphere

Yesterday's games:

This would win Eurovision for any country East of Germany (inclusive). youtu.be/mKkH8X03OG0

David Booth signed a deal to play for the Fife Flyers in the EIHL, and I had to look him up, since I remembered his decline being pretty sharp. In fact it was extremely precipitous.

Somebody asked me if the schedule is more compressed this year and: it is! (Rest here is average time since the last nhl game for each player, with a max of 3)

As a kid I somehow learned the word ordnance before I learnt ordinance and sometimes it caused me some confusion.

If you want to buy some cool weird stuff, I sell some cool weird stuff: hockeyviz.creator-spring.com

The #BasicStuff hashtag is so that I can find these threads. #Basic #Stuff #BasicStuff

Positional presence thread (#BasicStuff). Forwards shoot the puck from precisely where you expect, from the circles or lower, or the dump the puck on net once they gain the red line.

From time to time I make some stuff that's just stepping stones to work I'm actually doing, but I feel it should be catalogued somewhere, like an almanac or something. Failing that I'm gonna start making some "basic stuff" threads.

Gonna ask my wife to put "Stats are down but he played great" on my headstone if I cack it before she does.

Yesterday's games:

Same, with little variations of timing.

Sometimes I wonder that the covariate classes in my xG model aren't quite broad enough.

I found some code that I thought was lost forever! hooray!

if we die, we die

Ovechkin's next defensive zone shift start this season will be his first.

Speaking of the Leafs problems, if you don't think that you can make any improvements on the goalie front, you might try to do something with the penalty kill.

I'm having Fun© with label placement algorithms

Yesterday's games:

best joke of the day, imo: downforeveryoneorjustme.com

Website is broken and for once it's only partially my fault:

#3157 A helpful tutorial