Post Hockey · Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
A site like this is built on other people’s work, and on people willing to tell us when we got something wrong. This is who, and for what.
Regular help
- Dom Luszczyszyn — regular help on Net Rating.
- Matt Donders — regular help on engineering questions.
- Corey Sznajder — All Three Zones. Without him, none of the badges, and none of the All Three Zones section, would be possible.
Feedback
People who have taken the time to tell us what’s wrong, what’s missing, or what reads badly:
Neil Pierre-Louis, Bryce Salvador, TheBrattPack, Alison Lukan, Nick Roman, and many others who gave thoughts during private beta testing.
Badge inspiration
- BBall Index — where the badge idea originally came from.
- LB-Hockey — the first to bring it to hockey in any comprehensive sense.
- Chris Watkins — for his early work in skill ratings.
Groundwork
Public research our own models and writeups are built on, tested against, or sit in the lineage of. Each is credited again, in more detail, in the writeup it applies to.
- Micah Blake McCurdy (HockeyViz) — isolated-impact visualization and shot- and goalie-value work we reference and build against throughout our own methodology.
- Luke and Josh Younggren (Evolving-Hockey) — player-card framing, and the no-goalie-aging-adjustment precedent our own goalie forecast follows.
- Tom Tango — aging curves and Marcel-style weighting; also proposed weighted shots in 2014, which we tested directly against our own shot-value metrics.
- Aaron Knodell and David Johnson — for their contributions to the xG discovery.
- Ryan Stimson — shot assists as a better guide than points, from his passing project at Hockey Graphs.
- Alex Novet — possession exits and the retrieval that precedes them, from his transition work at Hockey Graphs.
- Eric Tulsky — early public shot-quality work that our own expected-goals models sit in the lineage of.
- Tim Barnes (writing as “Vic Ferrari”) — Corsi.
- Matt Fenwick — Fenwick.
- Dawson Sprigings (writing as “DTMAboutHeart” on Hockey-Graphs) — Dangerous Fenwick, an early public attempt at expected goals.
- Puck++ — score- and venue-adjusted weighted shots, tested directly against our own.
- The Bucketless (2021) — the blocked-shot valuation method our current model is built on top of.
Public databases we validated our metrics against:
Natural Stat Trick, MoneyPuck, Puckalytics, and HockeyStats.
Cole Palmer — HockeyStatCards, his work building on Dom Luszczyszyn's player cards.