Sign up for The Athletic today with our limited-time Tournament Sale offer. Get the latest transfer news on The Athletic… David Ornstein’s One To Watch: Matthijs de Ligt Manchester United’s transfer situation has changed on two fronts in the past few weeks. It was also reported in Brazil that incoming winger Savio will stay with the City squad next season …
Spend even just a bit of time in a hockey conversation with someone who believes in the utility of advanced statistics, and the term “play-driving” is almost certain to come up. Isolated shot rate is far more ambitious in its aims — on the single-player level, it looks to completely isolate an individual’s impact on his team’s ability to create …
Here’s one place where hockey stats are forever and always going to give us trouble: We’re usually blind to what a coach tells a player. We’re getting player tracking data in the NHL over the 2019-20 season, the first public burst of it ever, and it’s going to give us amazing, interesting, helpful statistics that hockey fans decades ago couldn’t …
