Monday, November 20, 2006

Hockey-Recap Gold

I mentioned Hockey-Recap (link over in sideboard) awhile ago around the time of it's onset. Recently some of the site's excellent features, such as the incredibly in-depth game-reports, were brought to my attention by Off-Wing Opinion.

This site is a veritable gold mine for poolies, stats-geeks and the morbidly attentive hockey fan. The game reports, for example, include a plethora of basic stats, as well as forward and defensive unit shift-charts. The latter is particularly useful for pool players - wanna know if that winger that's available plays on the fist line? How about his total ice, and how many "events" (goals scored for or against) occured while he was on? It's all there.

Another interesting hockey-recap contribution is the "impact" stat, which is basically a figure that establishes the effect each individual player had on a game. Goals, assists, face-off wins, blocked shots, hits and ice-time are among the factors that go into calculating the impact score. Good stuff! Make sure to check it out if you get the chance.