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NHL Adjusted Plus-Minus Part 4, Even Strength Overall

By BrianMacdonald | Feb 19th 2019 | 13 min read |

This is part 4 of a series of posts about Adjusted Plus-Minus (APM). Since I've been a slacker, its been a while since the last one. So as a remin...

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Expected Goals: Building on Fenwick and Corsi

By BrianMacdonald | Feb 19th 2019 | 5 min read |

Ben already posted about my Expected Goals paper from the 2012 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, but I thought I'd write a post also, so that...

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NHL Adjusted Plus-Minus Part 3, Even Strength Defense

By BrianMacdonald | Feb 19th 2019 | 9 min read |

We are now on part 3 of a series on Adjusted Plus-Minus (APM). In Part 1 and Part 2 we gave an introduction and talked about offense at even strength....

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NHL Adjusted Plus-Minus Part 2, Even Strength Offense

By BrianMacdonald | Feb 18th 2019 | 9 min read |

I'm finally continuing the posts that I began a few months ago on an adjusted plus-minus (APM) statistic for hockey. Part 1 is here and briefly de...

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Yet Another Shot Quality Post

By BrianMacdonald | Feb 18th 2019 | 7 min read |

I thought I'd join the ever-exciting, ever-controversial shot quality discussion/debate/argument/bloody fued. As I mentioned in the comments secti...

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NHL Adjusted Plus-Minus, Part 1

By BrianMacdonald | Feb 18th 2019 | 11 min read |

Problems with plus-minus have been well-documented by hockey analysts.  For example, the topic of plus-minus was Frequently Asked Question #1 in Gabe...