Author: gabrieldesjardins

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Impact of Last Change on Quality of Competition

By gabrieldesjardins | Feb 19th 2019 | 10 min read |

The venerable @Woodguy55 asked me a question about the shots against portion of the quality of competition metric – remember that QualComp is th...

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What's fair pay for NCAA athletes?

By gabrieldesjardins | Feb 19th 2019 | 4 min read |

We had an NHL labor stoppage in 2005 and both NBA and NFL labor stoppages in 2011. The new CBAs locked in the players' share of total league reven...

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Joe Nocera on the NCAA's misdeeds

By gabrieldesjardins | Feb 19th 2019 | 1 min read |

Nocera is doing a great job illuminating the many ways that the NCAA exploits its athlete/employees. I'm amazed at the number of commenters on the...

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Impact of Back-to-Back Games on Game-Tied Goals and Fenwick

By gabrieldesjardins | Feb 19th 2019 | 4 min read |

Friend of the blog Rich Pollock asked me how rest affected a team's performance. I wrote about this long, long ago, but I only looked at individua...

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My Aimless Commentary; Not the Real Post-Game Thread

By gabrieldesjardins | Feb 19th 2019 | 1 min read |

I’m traveling for work this week – bad timing given that the Canucks game is one of only four games the Jets play West of the Mississippi ...

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Why a Team's Record when they Score 3 or more Goals is an Utterly-Flawed Statistic

By gabrieldesjardins | Feb 19th 2019 | 3 min read |

A couple of days ago, I saw this run past me on the Twitter: “The Blues are 32-0 when they score 3 or more goals.” Now that sounds like a ...

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Brian Burke (and Mike Milbury) on Advanced Stats in the NHL

By gabrieldesjardins | Feb 19th 2019 | 4 min read |

The MIT sports analytics conference is always on my birthday, and it just seemed like a sad way to spend it when they invited me to appear on the hock...

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When did the NHL All-Star Game become a total joke?

By gabrieldesjardins | Feb 19th 2019 | 2 min read |

I know I’m a month late on this, but the NBA’s joke of an All-Star Game made me wonder when the NHL All-Star game went off the rails. Cert...

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How much did Dale Tallon improve the Florida Panthers?

By gabrieldesjardins | Feb 19th 2019 | 4 min read |

The 2010-11 Florida Panthers finished with 72 points and their off-season was dominated by stories of the team going bankrupt, moving and also failing...

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GOON: the movie

By gabrieldesjardins | Feb 19th 2019 | 1 min read |

I got a sneak peek at GOON earlier this week, and now that the film is released, my review is posted. This movie resonated with me for several reasons...