Welcome to my personal blog. THD or otherwise known as Thinking Hockey Differently will begin today November 7th 2009.
Now you may be wondering why I formed this blog and what the point of it is. The reason I formed this blog is because I have in the last year realized the inadequacies of some hockey opinions and especially the lack of hockey statistic. Now don’t get me wrong, I love the game of hockey. I am a fanatic, that’s part of the reason I am forming this blog as a huge fan. I live and breathe the sport. I don’t think the sport is bad and I'm not criticizing the sport on this blog. I am criticizing the lack of statistics in hockey and as well as common misconceptions about the sport.
Now what I and maybe a few other authors on this blog will attempt to accomplish is to investigate and post out findings on studies we will do on the sport. We will do all kinds of studies based on statistics and hopefully we will create several new interesting statistics that will at least make a reader pause and think about if these statistics are correct. We will investigate trends and what skills are undervalued in the NHL.
This is a similar concept to what baseball in saber metrics and basketball what men like John Hollinger have developed. They have expanded the statistic basics of the sports which has allowed both the average fan and even general managers to understand more as well as take advantage of this new information.
Here, we are simply guys or sometimes just one guy, me attempting to understand or try to hypothesize on some interesting theories we have of hockey.
We will attempt to invent several interesting statistics that will be used to evaluate players and then maybe do some interesting comparisons based on request with these statistics.
Anyway I am excited to get started and I hope to post somewhat regularly on this blog with new ideas, new comparisons and just some interesting debates and opinions.
PS: Please leave comments, this means I know you are interested in what I have to say even if it’s in a negative way. Constructive criticism will also be much appreciated. However, please keep your comments civil and not personal. I relish the opportunity for people to criticize my statistics rationally and engage in debate but I don’t want people calling me an idiot because they don’t agree.
-Thinking Hockey
good luck with your blog.
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