Attended almost all of Ekberg's home games this season and yeah the kid is super underrated. Also loving the use of the badges as player type attributions 🙌
I apologize for not more formally introducing your work here. I'm doing a top 32 at Sticks and Salvos on Thursday, but here's the meat and potatoes:
"When it comes to player types, here I’m stealing directly from Louis Boulet’s work on player types in the NHL, and his badge system. While his work is mostly theoretical, he is nonetheless working with data to approximate player styles as they relate to who generates offense as well as production (efficient attacker), players who transition more effectively than others (elusive carrier), strong tertiary players (pillar of support), chance creator/distributors (scoring threat) PP/PK specialists, and more. For a full glossary, you can click here.
This is not based on any kind of deep dive into the scouting process, or anything stats-based I’ve created on my own. I’m neither an analyst, nor a scout, no matter how hard I pretend to be. I’m a writer. This is just my way of hopefully adding language to the process. I feel like distinguishing between generalists and specialists is a lot cleaner than referring to players as one-dimensional, two-way, or hybrid. I like using Boulet’s badgework to cut through comps, since no two players are ever alike, and doing so always feels inaccurate at best, and misleading at worst."
If you have any fleeting thoughts or want to add anything to that so I can quote you (?) feel free. Keep up the inspired work.
That all looks good to me! The one thing I'd mention is that on my side of things the "Scoring Threat" badge is tailored to scorers while dual-threat creators are more suited for the "Dynamic Creator" badge. But that's just how they differ on my side of things obviously.
I promise it'll be worth the wait. And yes, there are a ton of Good Dudes. If you want to start watching tape, there's one guy who kind of ranks all over the place (David Bedkowski) and therefore I'm not sure, but someone like Maxim Agafanov will definitely be there. A tall, mature RHD Russian defender who does it all. Not a real weakness in his game.
4th round becomes the new 5th round. Ok so it doesn’t have the same ring to it but go after the 10-1 odds guys, it is almost house money at that point.
Does Stankoven count as value outside the first round?
Attended almost all of Ekberg's home games this season and yeah the kid is super underrated. Also loving the use of the badges as player type attributions 🙌
LB in the hizzy!
I apologize for not more formally introducing your work here. I'm doing a top 32 at Sticks and Salvos on Thursday, but here's the meat and potatoes:
"When it comes to player types, here I’m stealing directly from Louis Boulet’s work on player types in the NHL, and his badge system. While his work is mostly theoretical, he is nonetheless working with data to approximate player styles as they relate to who generates offense as well as production (efficient attacker), players who transition more effectively than others (elusive carrier), strong tertiary players (pillar of support), chance creator/distributors (scoring threat) PP/PK specialists, and more. For a full glossary, you can click here.
This is not based on any kind of deep dive into the scouting process, or anything stats-based I’ve created on my own. I’m neither an analyst, nor a scout, no matter how hard I pretend to be. I’m a writer. This is just my way of hopefully adding language to the process. I feel like distinguishing between generalists and specialists is a lot cleaner than referring to players as one-dimensional, two-way, or hybrid. I like using Boulet’s badgework to cut through comps, since no two players are ever alike, and doing so always feels inaccurate at best, and misleading at worst."
If you have any fleeting thoughts or want to add anything to that so I can quote you (?) feel free. Keep up the inspired work.
That all looks good to me! The one thing I'd mention is that on my side of things the "Scoring Threat" badge is tailored to scorers while dual-threat creators are more suited for the "Dynamic Creator" badge. But that's just how they differ on my side of things obviously.
Been loving the articles!
Are there any RHD we could be looking at with realistic upside in our drafting range?
Tomorrow Olde Punk. Tomorrow.
I promise it'll be worth the wait. And yes, there are a ton of Good Dudes. If you want to start watching tape, there's one guy who kind of ranks all over the place (David Bedkowski) and therefore I'm not sure, but someone like Maxim Agafanov will definitely be there. A tall, mature RHD Russian defender who does it all. Not a real weakness in his game.
4th round becomes the new 5th round. Ok so it doesn’t have the same ring to it but go after the 10-1 odds guys, it is almost house money at that point.
slim pickings for the Stars this year...