Comments on: Frozen Assets: A Fresh (Pythagorean) Perspective on Team Rankings http://illegalcurve.com/2009/12/18/frozen-assets-a-fresh-pythagorean-perspective-on-team-rankings/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=frozen-assets-a-fresh-pythagorean-perspective-on-team-rankings The Illegal Curve Hockey Show provides the most comprehensive coverage of the hockey world. 9AM CST Saturdays on Sports Radio 1290 Winnipeg. Podcast available after on iTunes. Thu, 23 May 2013 15:50:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: goon http://illegalcurve.com/2009/12/18/frozen-assets-a-fresh-pythagorean-perspective-on-team-rankings/comment-page-1/#comment-4116 goon Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:07:15 +0000 http://illegalcurve.com/?p=23478#comment-4116 I still see Boston being higher than a 6 seed. Just saying. Hum, math to explain hockey…

]]> By: Drew http://illegalcurve.com/2009/12/18/frozen-assets-a-fresh-pythagorean-perspective-on-team-rankings/comment-page-1/#comment-4115 Drew Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:08:53 +0000 http://illegalcurve.com/?p=23478#comment-4115 The best part is the dedication at the end.

]]> By: Dirk Hoag http://illegalcurve.com/2009/12/18/frozen-assets-a-fresh-pythagorean-perspective-on-team-rankings/comment-page-1/#comment-4114 Dirk Hoag Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:39:31 +0000 http://illegalcurve.com/?p=23478#comment-4114 This is fun stuff to dig into, and I’d offer a couple suggestions if you want to take this a step further. One’s easy, the other involves a little more heavy lifting:

1) The GF/GA numbers from the standings include a bogus goal given to teams that win the shootout. You’d want to remove those from your totals before running the numbers, and you could also justify removing Empty Netters. The reason being that you’re getting to GF/GA as a cause of teams winning or losing games. With Empty Netters, they’re more a result of winning a game rather than a cause.

2) Head over to HockeyAnalytics.com and read up on a couple of the thick papers in there, to calculate a more accurate exponent than 2. The last time I did this, it was closer to 2.2.

Either way, this makes for a good check on teams that might trend up or down in the standings as the season goes on.

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