Latest Data Punk Hockey Posts

29
Oct

Interested in an Early Preview of our Sports Analytics Course?

We're working on an online course entitled Introduction to Sports Analytics. We're offering community members an opportunity to get early preview access to the course.
1 min read
27
Oct

Chart 2: Column Chart for Top-Scoring Enforcers

This is the second tutorial in our premium content series: Fifty Charts. In this week's tutorial, we'll walk through how to create a Column chart in Datawrapper that shows the top-scoring enforcers.
7 min read
26
Oct

The NHL's Secret Weapon: Enforcers Who Score

This is the fourth newsletter in our Vintage NHL series, where we explore 108 years of hockey history. In this issue, we discover who are the top five point-producing enforcers in the history of the NHL.
8 min read
20
Oct

Chart 1: Line Chart for Points Percent by Era

This is the first tutorial in our premium content series: Fifty Charts. In this series, we'll create different charts in each tutorial with live or sample data to show you how you can answer different hockey/sports analytics questions using visualizations.
5 min read
19
Oct

A Tale of Two Eras: Gretzky vs McDavid

This is our third newsletter in the multi-part Vintage Hockey series, where we explore 108 years of NHL history. In this edition, we explore the 80s and the modern era by comparing Wayne Gretzky and Connor McDavid.
10 min read
12
Oct

108 Years of Goals, Goons & Goalies

This is our second newsletter in the multi-part Vintage Hockey series, where we explore 108 years of NHL history. In this edition, we explore goal scoring, goons and goaltending.
9 min read
06
Oct

From Chalkboards to AI: 108 Years of NHL Hockey

This is the first in a series of newsletters where we explore 108 years of NHL hockey history to understand how the game (and how we measure it) has evolved.
9 min read
29
Sep

The New Season: What's in Store?

A short update on what's in store for the upcoming hockey season!
3 min read
21
Sep

Bringing It All Home: Your Go-To Dashboard for DFS Fantasy Hockey Success

In this final newsletter of the six-week series, we create a DFS Fantasy Hockey dashboard using Power BI for three key DFS strategies: High Shot Volume Player, Line Stacking & Winning Goalies.
11 min read
15
Sep

Predict Like a Pro: More Winning Fantasy Hockey Strategies

This is the fifth in our six-week series on building an analytically-driven winning DFS system. This week we continue to discuss different winning strategies, how they align to scoring and statistics and sample reports you could build to inform your DFS lineup decisions.
11 min read