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The Value Of A Fighter
by Paul on 07/30/09 at 01:26 PM ET
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from Carl Bialik of the Daily Fix at the Wall Street Journal,
On Puck Prospectus, Gabriel Desjardins tapped into the fan-generated database at hockeyfights.com to find out when fights happened last season, and who was deemed by voting fans to have won each tussle. Then he cross-referenced each fight with what happened in the rest of the game, when players were focused on scoring goals instead of landing punches. The result: A fight’s winner boosts his team’s goal differential by 0.07 over the next 10 minutes.
That may suggest that it’s good for the goons to drop the gloves more often, but few hockey pugilists win more than half the time — and for each who does, there’s another who’s a habitual loser.
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There is a small problem with that. The deterrent factor. Basically, having a known fighter on your team discourages the other team from going after your best guys, lest they themselves get hurt.
Posted by bsalamon on 07/30/09 at 01:34 PM ET