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06
Jul

Finding the Top Snipers using K-Means Clustering

In this week's newsletter, we'll introduce you to K-means clustering and walk through an example where we use clustering to find the top ten NHL snipers.
10 min read
30
Jun

Data Punk Hockey Update: 06/30/2024

In this week's post, we'll do a quick recap of the year and provide you with some areas of focus for us this summer.
2 min read
23
Jun

Preparing for the NHL 2024 Draft: Final Analysis

This is the final week in our six-week series on preparing for the NHL 2024 Draft. This week, we'll outline the top prospects and map them to a sample of NHL teams.
10 min read
16
Jun

Preparing for the NHL 2024 Draft: Top 50 Prospect Analysis

This is the fifth week in our six-week series on preparing for the NHL 2024 Draft. This week, we'll cover the top 50 incoming prospects for this year's draft through an exploratory data analysis and Power BI dashboard.
12 min read
09
Jun

Preparing for the NHL 2024 Draft: Analyzing Incoming Prospects

This is the fourth newsletter in a six-week series to prepare you for the upcoming NHL 2024 Draft. This week analyzes the NHL Draft 2024 prospects through data discovery in Microsoft Excel and a Power BI dashboard.
10 min read
02
Jun

Preparing for the NHL Draft 2024: Team Analysis

This is the third newsletter in a six-week series to prepare you for the upcoming NHL 2024 Draft. This week analyzes the offense, defense and goaltending for each NHL team and ranks teams strongest to weakest.
9 min read
26
May

Preparing for NHL Draft 2024: Team Stats Data Discovery

This is the second installment in a six-week series where we'll prepare you for the NHL 2024 draft. In this week's newsletter, we'll do data discovery on the team stats data and the incoming draft prospects stats data.
10 min read
19
May

Preparing for the NHL 2024 Draft

This is the first in a six-part series leading into the NHL's Draft 24. We'll act the part of a Data Analysis and conduct team assessments, draft prospect evaluations and create a final analysis.
5 min read
12
May

Overview of Goals Versus Threshold

Goals versus Threshold is an advanced statistic used by sports and data scientists to evaluate players and teams against a replacement statistic.
9 min read
05
May

What Makes a Winning Playoff Team?

This article walks through different factors that make up a winning playoff team and introduces different ways to measure them.
10 min read