Hockey Analytics

In 2017-18 NHL season, Hiroki manually reviewed and tracked 3,854 goals, about a half of total regular season goals, in order to combine the stats he wants to analyze and study.

The main purpose of this project is to track and analyse how and from where the goals were generated from three step before the shot as below.

Pre-Shot 3 (X3, Y3) [pass, carry, Face Off Win, etc]
Pre-Shot 2 (X2, Y2) [pass, carry, ForeCheck to loose puck, Shot and Rebound, etc]
Pre-Shot 1 (X1, Y1) [pass, carry, ForeCheck to loose puck, Face Off Win, etc]
Shot (X, Y) [wrist shot, one touch shot, tip, deke to forehand, etc]

Net Location (Net X, Net Y), Goalie’s Hole (glove high, 5-hole, etc) and Screen Shot situations were also recorded.

Of course, all the data were tagged to the game dates, teams, skaters and goalies so you can filter all the goals by teams, individuals and situations.

During the course of collecting the data, Hiroki was suffered from tennis elbow by clicking the mouse too much. He also had to replace a mouse with worn out scroll wheel and broken left button.

Here Hiroki presents some very interesting studies he combined from the big stats. Hope they help hockey players and coaches to see the game from different point of views.

Feel free to send comments, questions and corrections of the data (there are more than few, I guess).

Hiroki Wakabayashi

info@worldhockeylab.com