Corsica: advanced stats website

[Heroic Shrimp]

I'm not really enough into the advanced stats websites to know the merits and drawbacks to each (including this one), but having more sources of information and analysis is always a good thing.  I think Corsica came online within the last few weeks.

Here you go:  http://www.corsica.hockey

 

[CarltonTheBear]

It popped up because War-on-ice is shutting down soon. This has most of the same features but also seems to be working on a few extra bells and whistles. Their Similarity Calculator in particular is pretty neat. Let's you select a player and it'll show all the players in the past who had seasons similar to his.

 

[McGarnagle]

How is all of this detail/data collected? I've often wondered.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

How is all of this detail/data collected? I've often wondered.

Basically: all the data comes from NHL.com. Each game has detailed play-by-play breakdowns that record each event over the course of a game, with information like when it happens and who was on the ice for each team when it happened. The guys who run these sites will generally build/buy a scrapper that more or less mines all of this information from NHL.com for them to use.

This is a blog post from someone who ran War-on-ice described how their scrapper works in a lot more detail if you're interested: http://www.acthomas.ca/comment/2014/04/nhlscrapr-an-r-package-whose-purpose-is-right-there-in-the-name.html

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

The advanced stats community really needs to work on their naming abilities.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

The advanced stats community really needs to work on their naming abilities.

Technically, Bobby Ryan named this one. Your beef's with him.

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

The advanced stats community really needs to work on their naming abilities.

Technically, Bobby Ryan named this one. Your beef's with him.

Okay I take it back, that's funny.

 

[TML fan]

My parents had a Corsica when I was growing up. The doors fell off.