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Tan @tanho.ca · 07/10/2026

The 2027 Big Data Bowl hackathon is live! It's a big entrypoint for people looking to get into sports analytics and tracking data.

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NFL Big Data Bowl 2027

Uncover non-obvious linkages between Combine sensor tracking and regular-season NFL game performance

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The Bucketless @thebucketless.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is fun but also reminded me that I started toying with this stuff 6 years ago. Doesn't seem possible to me I've been around this space that long.

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CJ Turtoro @posthockey.com · 01/10/2026

I used EDGE tracking data from the NHL gamecenter animations to find the location of blocked shots preceding goals in order to train a model to determine what the likely location of a blocked shot would be. You can see the model's results here: claude.ai/artifact/6Jr...

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Claude Artifact

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The Bucketless @thebucketless.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

No but you should share with the class so we can all congratulate you properly and not at all so I can see if it's something I can steal to pretend I did something cool and genius

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The Bucketless @thebucketless.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I raise you an overnight run ran faster than expected only to find out you forgot to set a parameter and need to run it again

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The Bucketless @thebucketless.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Yeah I meant in the correlation results. New features have to pull impact from somewhere so probably bigger change for lower TOI players. If you're already ignoring them, that shouldn't be it. Micah's suggestion is probably worth looking at or even just how much the penalties change between fits.

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The Bucketless @thebucketless.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Are you including all players in the results?

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The Bucketless @thebucketless.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I've seen someone write about something giving them piece of mind

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The Bucketless @thebucketless.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Shield makes me think cop. Scale could be scales of justice. X marks the spot. Hockey. Cup. You're launching an investigation into what really happened with the Walter Cup?

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The Bucketless @thebucketless.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Trying this out, gonna blame you if I don't like it

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Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Working in sports you get so many people asking for advice on how to get in, and they are really disappointed to hear “get lucky”. Yes you have to meet a minimum bar but a lot of people do One good way to increase the odds you get lucky? Be a good person, treat people well, don’t be transactional

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The Bucketless @thebucketless.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In case you hadn't seen, back when the animations first came out I went through them for one season and, for any that didn't have the puck going in the net at any point, documented what issue caused it. Couldn't say how much it's improved since then. github.com/the-bucketle...

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GitHub - the-bucketless/nhl-data

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The Bucketless @thebucketless.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Yeah the misses were a tiny sample of what is already the dominant class. Posts aren't the highest n either but they're all minority class in something with heavy imbalance so it makes more sense that they could have an impact.

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The Bucketless @thebucketless.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

How many total posts are being added as non-stops each season?

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The Bucketless @thebucketless.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If 1% of missed shots in 21/22 were hiding so much useful info on goalies, that'd be a pretty crazy finding, no? Is that even double digit shots per goalie?

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The Bucketless @thebucketless.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Did you compare results with the same logistic regression using only shots and/or shots plus posts? If these missed contact shots would have been called saves in the past, seems odd you'd get something different than older models by including them. Unless I'm missing something and should feel silly.

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The Bucketless @thebucketless.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

How can I trust this isn't a factoid?

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The Bucketless @thebucketless.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

What's the shooting percentage for unblocked shots that aren't 1T From beyond the arc? If you 0 the 1T feature for the shots beyond the arc, how's the xG compared to when you leave them as 1T?

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The Bucketless @thebucketless.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I asked @habsbrain.com what good hockey papers he's read lately and he listed a couple from linhac so let's go ahead and plug all of them: www.ida.liu.se/research/spo...

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Program | LINHAC 2026

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Ben Steiner @bensteiner00.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Following in the footsteps of the MLSPA, the PWHLPA has voted to disclose player salaries for the first time. All players are listed here, with numbers quite low for full-time professional athletes. www.pwhlpa.com/salary-guide

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PWHLPA Salary Guide

See the player's salary guide

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The Bucketless @thebucketless.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Yeah, he is. Sportsnet used to have it but it's TSN now.

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The Bucketless @thebucketless.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Watching the Memorial Cup right now and this reminded me to appreciate having Corrado do it after too many years of Cosentino

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The Bucketless @thebucketless.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Can't imagine people focusing on anything else right now, so how to pronounce (Konsta) Helenius: Every previous Helenius = heh lehn ee uhs Every pronunciation guide = heh lehn ee uhs Him saying it for the Amerks guide = heh lehn ee uhs Sportsnet = it's obviously hella noose, what else could it be?

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hockeyskytte.bsky.social @hockeyskytte.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

My NHL site is now live! nhl.hockey-statistics.com There are many features that you can't find anywhere and I'm quite proud of this project. However, I could really use your help spread the word. Please share the link here on Bluesky, but also on other platforms. It means a lot!

nhl.hockey-statistics.com

NHL Analytics

Live games, standings, projections, and deeper NHL analytics.

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The Bucketless @thebucketless.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Take it from his first name to make a superhero with no regard for crosswalks

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The Bucketless @thebucketless.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Did y'all know that former Medicine Hat Tiger Kris Russell has an identical twin brother (Ryan) who played in the NHL and, more importantly, the two of them dropped the gloves with each other in the WHL?

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The Bucketless @thebucketless.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

My grade 9 English teacher forgot there was nudity in Rumble Fish

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The Bucketless @thebucketless.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Looking through my backlog and came across this: huggingface.co/SimulaMet-HOST Models and data for computer vision for hockey. Haven't really looked through it, but public data is cool to see.

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SimulaMet-HOST (SimulaMet HOST Department)

Org profile for SimulaMet HOST Department on Hugging Face, the AI community building the future.

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max @habsbrain.com · 18/12/2025

✨new scraper✨ I will write some docs, improve the scraper, etc. eventually ✨it notably includes an xG model i built (model gives lower xG values than most other models [can mean I am dumb lol], so expect lots of goals scored above expected) github.com/maxtixador/s...

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GitHub - maxtixador/scrapernhl

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The Bucketless @thebucketless.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

There was a WHL game where Codey Burki scored in the first shift of the 2nd period that got taken back when the refs remembered they'd given him a penalty at the end of the 1st

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The Bucketless @thebucketless.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Most difficult challenge I did was no optional EXP with only yellow materia and, somewhat surprisingly, beating Sephiroth wasn't a tough part of that (though it did take a long time to wear him down). PS Not the biggest gamer, but I've been enjoying seeing FF7 in the timeline.

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The Bucketless @thebucketless.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

We want to see the league rankings and aging curves. Also, why x_i,t and not x_i,u?

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yimmy @yimmymcbill.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

NHL Draft model v2. Wrote a rough draft about what I think was going wrong the first go. Not there yet. drydan.github.io/posts-hockey...

Ridge plot ordering the top 27 eligible players for the 2025 NHL Draft by the posteriors for a player ability. In list form below.

Rank.|LastName|x|NHL Scouting Rank
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1.|Misa|2.18|2
2.|Hagens|2.06|3
3.|Schaefer|2.04|1
4.|Martone|2.01|6
5.|Frondell|1.94|1 Int.
6.|Aitcheson|1.91|9
7.|O'Brien|1.86|4
8.|Desnoyers|1.85|7
9.|Eklund|1.84|2 Int.
10.|Carbonneau|1.81|16
11.|Kindel|1.8|21
12.|Reschny|1.78|25
13.|Reid|1.76|23
14.|Bear|1.76|10
15.|Veilleux|1.74|91
16.|Zonnon|1.71|31
17.|Mrtka|1.71|5
18.|Smith|1.68|13
19.|Martin|1.66|11
20.|Schmidt|1.65|43
21.|Woo|1.64|156
22.|Hensler|1.62|12
23.|Tremblay|1.61|
24.|McQueen|1.6|8
25.|Spence|1.6|17
26.|Brisson|1.57|
27.|Lakovic|1.57|14

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The Bucketless @thebucketless.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Saw a goal with a great water bottle pop tonight. I miss those.

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Tan @tanho.ca · 12/03/2025

It’s hard to put into words what building and scaling the DynastyProcess shiny app has meant to me, but I took a crack at it in this talk and shared some of the lessons it taught me along the way! #rstats

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The Bucketless @thebucketless.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

"Ottawa leads the PWHL in time spent on the penalty kill" Well they did name their team after a penalty

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The Bucketless @thebucketless.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

me, writing code: I am so smart me, trying to run the code I just wrote: I am such an idiot

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An Nguyen @nguyenank.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Hey y'all its a shot-plotter.netlify.app update! This one features the addition of: - football/soccer net (IFAB/NCAA) - indoor lacrosse (NLL, customizable) and: - ice hockey (IIHF) is now customizable All additions were suggestions from people, so let me know if you have thoughts of things to add!

A screenshot of shot-plotter featuring two ice hockey rinks (NHL & IIHF) and an ice hockey net (NHL). The ice hockey rink (IIHF) has fields to customize the height and corner radius.

A screenshot of shot-plotter featuring the indoor lacrosse area with several points plotted.

A screenshot of shot-plotter featuring the soccer net with several points plotted.

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The Bucketless @thebucketless.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

My guess would be they're getting the time from the score bug on the screen and that it wasn't visible in those frames. I haven't looked but you can probably interpolate based on the frame rate. As for the puck, I'm kinda surprised it's in there at all. That's tough to get from video.

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The Bucketless @thebucketless.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Just hit Ctrl+C on one computer and Ctrl+V on another. It, uh, didn't work.

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The Bucketless @thebucketless.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

The wavy arrow can also be used for normal matplotlib plots

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