Sports Analytics

IIHF 2021 Women’s World Championships @ The Athletic

During the 2021 Women’s World Championship, I worked with The Athletic to create tournament previews and Data-Driven Analysis around the event. Using my own Florence Model I ran 50,000 simulations of the tournament providing Athletics readers with exclusive insight into the tournament.

WHKYHAC

The first Women's Hockey Analytics Conference took place on July 10th, 2021, organised by Carleen Markey, Mike Murphy and Myself. Receiving just below 400 unique viewers over the course of the conference stream, with an average of 50 viewers over the 8 hours of the conference. In hosting this conference, we aimed to give provide a platform to the growing number of women's hockey analysts and means of showcasing their recent projects. Additionally, the event helped facilitate collaborations between media members and women's hockey analysts through this conference, resulting in projects numbers projects including WHKYe.

We also hosted analytics-focused panels to help connect analysts, players, and media members. These panels featuring viewpoints of players and ex-players such as Colleen Coyne, Karell Émard, and Emma woods, as well as media members such as Erica L. Ayala, Gabs Fundaro, Nicole Haase, Marisa Ingemi, and Spencer Fascetta.

Going forward we hope that WHKYHAC will become an annual event on the Women’s Hockey Calendar.

Archived presentations and data can be found on whkyhac.com and on the WHKYHAC Youtube.

Big Data Cup

Participate in the 2021 Big Data Cup both individually and in a team with Mike Murphy and Shayna Goodman. On the team, our research on ‘The Value of Faceoffs in Women’s Hockey was awarded an honourable mention and we were invited to present about it further at the 2021 Ottowa Hockey Analytics Conference. The research was then written up and published on Hockey-Graphs.com with historical data then included further solidifying the validity of our findings.

NWHL 2021 Bubble Content

Throughout the NWHL bubble season, I regularly posted prediction data using the Florence Model prior to each day showing updated team chances of making it not just to the playoffs but of winning the Isobel Cup, Additionally, I produced shot pressure charts, ladder graphs, and shooting heatmaps that where featured on Sportsnet and NBC with my own website where every chart, as well as the Games PBP, was posted daily receiving over 700 unique hits over the course of the tournament in addition to the 1.01 Million tweet impressions I received over the month of January with the initial release of the Florence Predictions totalling over 4,000 engagements, and 102 thousand impressions alone.

Newcastle Northstars

During the 2019 AIHL Season, I worked exclusively with the Newcastle Northstars coaching staff to manually track and produce statistics for the team live both on location and remotely. Delivering reports on location, shot pressure, shot generation and Corsi % by both individual players and line in each of the intermissions. The team proceeded to make playoffs for the first time in two years with the Head Coach receiving the 2019 Coach of the Year award. I was slated to return to the roll in the 2020 season however due to COVID restrictions the league has been indefinitely put on hold.

Even Strength

Launched in 2018 and existing until its closure in 2020 I was one of the four founding members of the First publicly Available women’s hockey Advanced stats websites alongside Jake Flancer, CJ Turtoro, and Matt Barlowe. The site marked the first time xG, eTOI, and Points Shares had been publicly available in the sport in addition to shot location data which similarly had never been accessible for individual players or to view across a whole season prior to the site. Unfortunately due to NWHL site upgrades, the Even-Strength was made defunct on the dawn of the 2019-20 season and was officially archived in December 2020.