Author: Patrick Derm

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A Look at the Sharks Through the Lens of a Microscope

By Patrick Derm | Feb 19th 2019 | 7 min read |

What a win last night! The Sharks continue to find a way to put the puck past the Red Wings, which many teams this year have struggled to do. Maybe Mc...

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Score%: Additional Context to Contemplate

By Patrick Derm | Feb 19th 2019 | 14 min read |

If advanced statistics is your brother’s/cousin’s/son’s/daughter’s T-ball league then the”Most Improved” trophy th...

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Weekly Playoff Probabilities: Fairy Tales, Fenwick, and the Accuracy Paradox

By Patrick Derm | Feb 19th 2019 | 13 min read |

“Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?” In the tale of Snow White, first collected by the Brother’s Grimm in 1...

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Weekly Playoff Probabilities and Some Thoughts on Pulling the Goalie

By Patrick Derm | Feb 19th 2019 | 9 min read |

This week in addition to posting the updated weekly playoff probabilities I want to address a question often asked, “When is the best time to pu...

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A V-day gift for your loved one: Chocolate covered League-Wide Deployment (minus the chocolate)

By Patrick Derm | Feb 19th 2019 | 7 min read |

Last week we looked at T Mac’s deployment and noted a few interesting things. T Mac likes to play his top players against top competition. (More...

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Todd McLellan's Deployment

By Patrick Derm | Feb 19th 2019 | 4 min read |

We don’t have a lot of tools that provide insight into the mind of the NHL head coach. One of the few we do is offensive and defensive deploymen...

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Weekly Playoff Probabilities: With Bonus Fenwick Analysis!

By Patrick Derm | Feb 19th 2019 | 10 min read |

Happy Pigskin day everybody! I should mention that as you read this post, Soloact has a great complimentary post with running magic and tragic numbers...

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Playoff Probabilities: Applying Score-Adjusted Fenwick%

By Patrick Derm | Feb 19th 2019 | 8 min read |

Before we get rolling with the post I want to introduce myself. Recently I’ve fan posted a few stats related articles and also spent some time w...