Last year, I published an analysis that ranks NHL’s best shooters with Bayesian multilevel modeling. Now that the 2017–2018 regular season is over, I have repeated the analysis with an additional year’s worth of statistics (it starts from season 1967–1968). … Continue reading
Update April 12, 2018: This post is from spring 2017, so the results reflect statistics up to season 2016–2017. I have now re-run the analysis including data from season 2017–2018, and updated results are available here. Methodology is unchanged, so … Continue reading
Patrik Laine is playing his first season in the NHL and currently leads the league in scoring with 12 goals. With 51 shots on goal, his shooting percentage is 23.5 %. How does this number compare to great goal scores over … Continue reading
When I was at the Recurse Center, I wanted to try the caret package for R. It provides a unified interface for training various types of classification and regression models, and parameter tuning through resampling. I needed a project to … Continue reading