> If you were at the Syracuse Invitational tourney, you would not be saying
> this.  I'm not going to get on the SIT folks, but there were definitely a
> number of things that we as college hockey media types or sports info
> people had become accustomed to and which weren't done.  It worked out ok
> because we recognized this early on and adjusted to the situation.  They
> seemed used to doing whatever they normally did for Syracuse Crunch games,
> which oddly enough, was not as extensive as is usually done for college
> hockey (i.e. period by period shot charts).
 
It amazed me when I started to cover some professional hockey games that shot
charts were not part of the standard record-keeping.
 
This is such an unbelievable analysis tool for broadcasters and other media, it
seems like a no-brainer.
 
(BTW, shot charts track all shots attempted and where on the ice they were
taken from, who took them, and whether they were blocked, wide, on net or
scored.)
 
I assume that pro teams actually go through the tapes and compile data of this
sort afterward.  Supposedly the NHL is going to start keeping this stuff
officially in the near future and quantifying it for stat and analysis
purposes.
 
I wish I had the time to go through the shots charts from each game and do some
number crunching. But it's a lot a work.  There's a TON of great things that
could be learned from doing it though -- Is there a stat freak out there who
would do this?
 
The thing is - no one except media members sees the shot charts, and I bet most
don't really pay attention to them.
 
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