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Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
What more do you want in terms of analytics? Teams are not going to share what they have, its pretty secretive.
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A bunch of stuff. Expected goal percentage on each shot. Number of times a player has a goal percentage shot of X%+ and passes it up or is unable to take it.
There are so many opportunities to use that tracker in their jerseys (and I assume there's one in the puck) to learn about optimal positioning. I'm talking about this thing:
Instead they waste the technology to show the TV audience who's on the ice on a PP or how fast they're skating.
I wish they'd give us everything and people could create their own multivariate analyses to see what's predictive and what's useless.
In baseball you can get spin rate, horizontal break, vertical break, how often every player swings at pitches in the zone, how often they chase pitches out of the zone, park effects, launch angle, exit velocity, catcher framing, fielding value, even a daily evaluation of how well or poorly an umpire called the game. They had to change the rules because teams got so smart about shifting the positioning of infielders to certain hitters' pull sides. MLB gave us all that with Statcast, which is what I thought NHL Edge was going to be.