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What to make of the wild, wild Western Conference?
by Forechecker on 01/09/09 at 06:48 PM ET
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Hockey fans with a hankering for statistical analysis should already have Battle of Alberta among their regular reading material, but today’s look at the tightly-bunched Western Conference playoff push is especially insightful, using a variety of different analytical angles to try and determine who’s likely to make it and who won’t:
A mere 2 games separating 7th from 14th in the WC is also pretty interesting. It’s incredibly hard—impossible, really—to mentally assemble all the various factors that might contribute to any one of those teams getting ahead of the pack or falling out of it. So I thought I would put together a very rudimentary, not-rigourous look at what the Statzis call “arrows"…
Read on for some juicy number crunching from the Great White North…
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Dirk Hoag is the Forechecker, churner of NHL stats and analysis. Having started over 10 years ago writing for websites like In the Crease and e-Sports, Dirk launched On The Forecheck in 2005 to cover the Nashville Predators as well as apply statistical analysis to NHL hockey.
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