Latest Data Punk Hockey Posts

07
Apr

Creating a Playoff Preview Metric and Dashboard to Gauge Team Performance

This edition introduces the Playoff Preview Metric, a composite metric (offense, defense and goaltending) you can use to gauge a team's performance in the upcoming playoffs.
10 min read
31
Mar

How to Create a Daily DFS Projections Report using Power BI

This tutorial walks you through how to design and build a DFS Fantasy Hockey Projections Report using Microsoft Power BI.
6 min read
24
Mar

Discover Fantasy Hockey Outliers using the Average DFS Projections Score

Use the Average DFS Projections Score to find the outliers for your fantasy hockey picks.
12 min read
17
Mar

How to Create a Team-Level PDO Report

Learn how to create a PDO, a measurement of luck and performance, dashboard using Microsoft Power BI.
6 min read
10
Mar

PDO: How Lucky are Ya?

PDO is considered a "luck" metric that combines Shooting and Save percentages. We'll explore what PDO is in this edition, along with different types of reports that you can create.
8 min read
03
Mar

Ice Breakers: Decoding the Impact of Injuries in Hockey

Standard injury reports give you limited data on the impact of injuries. This edition walks through a sample of potential custom reports you can create that include the impact and production cost of injuries.
11 min read
03
Mar

How to Create an Injury Report with Production Cost

Learn how to create an injury report that includes impact metrics, such as Points per Game.
6 min read
25
Feb

Newsletter Updates - 2/25/24

Hey Data Punks! We hope you're all enjoying the hockey season. Rather than publishing a weekly newsletter this
2 min read
18
Feb

Unveil the Secrets Behind the Game: Data Storytelling and Hockey Analytics

Data storytelling is a way to communicate insights from complex datasets and gives you an approach and tools to create amazing and compelling data stories and visualizations.
19 min read
10
Feb

Guardians between the Pipes: The Stats Behind Hockey's Top Goalies

In this week's edition, we cover the importance of goaltending (if it isn't obvious!), common goalie statistics, and walk through how to create a Goaltender Dashboard using Microsoft Power BI.
12 min read