Sabres 1 of 5 teams to use advanced stats scouting

[Two or less]

It doesn't really go much into depth in this article. But this is a article based on the movie "Moneyball" and talks about the tactics Billy Beane used in baseball with Oakland now getting translated in other sports, namely hockey. Not sure if this is post-Pegula era or if Darcy Regier has always used advanced scouting but still interesting.

 

Some of those working for NHL teams, however, argue that the quality of analysis is only now getting to the point to be really useful.

 

“It’s not that everyone’s been blind to this stuff forever,” said Pittsburgh Penguins director of player development Dan MacKinnon, who used SAI’s metrics extensively last season and was one of the members on the first hockey panel at MIT’s Sports Analytics Conference this year. “It’s more that, it hasn’t been available until fairly recently. The NHL didn’t even track this kind of [advanced data] until 2006 or 2007.”

 

Other than the Penguins, MacKinnon points to the Boston Bruins, Buffalo Sabres, Calgary Flames and Tampa Bay Lightning as teams that have begun to invest in this type of analysis.

 

Rest of article- http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/why-havent-advanced-stats-caught-on-in-the-nhl/article2178777/

[Weave]

Not suprised. Darcy seems to be a bit of an innovator. Or at least a leading edge kind of executive. As much as video scouting has been groused about, it was a very innovative method of getting prospect data without the expense of boots on the ground. And lets face it, moneyball sounds like Darcy's kind of methodology.

 

 

ETA- around draft time we had several threads bringing up Corsi numbers, stats that Jim Corsi came up with to quantify prospect potential.

[Andrew Amerk]

Any edge helps, and is worth at least exploring.

 

Is that movie any good/ worth checking out?