• 2014 Sochi Olympics - Why Canada will Rule (Again) in Hockey

    February 06, 2014

  • A friend of mine from grad school recently got me connected with a buddy of his who writes for the Wall Street Journal. I just wrote my first article for their regular feature The Count. I look at how much NHL Olympians are paid and how this can help us...



  • Why popular advanced stats are bad at predicting who wins games

    December 12, 2013

  • Note: Check out the follow up article to this one here.

    A few days ago, Jonathan Willis at Bleacher Report had a great article introducing his readers to a few of the most common NHL advanced statistics. He breaks the stats up into team statistics and player...



  • What wins hockey games?

    October 27, 2013

  • What wins a hockey game? We often hear from announcers things like, “The team that wins in the faceoff circle will win this game” or “They’ve got to get the puck on the net if they want to win tonight.” But which of these statements are true? More generally, which...



  • I was really excited yesterday to see that my work on NHL realignment had generated some publicity beyond the internet. At the New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports a couple weekends ago, I talked with Fluto Shinzawa, the Bruins beat writer for the Boston Globe, about my work...



  • Tomorrow I’m going to be doing a poster presentation about the work on NHL realignment at the New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports. The conference is hosted by the Harvard Statistics Department and should be really fun. There’s presentations about just about every sport, as well as...