The big NHL stats resource list

The best public models, tools, and databases for advanced analysis

Need help assessing your team’s defense, how they played last night, or if that new prospect is likely to break out this year? Here are all the tools to help make it happen.

I have kept descriptions pretty simple to avoid this becoming overly long. Many of the sites here would need multiple articles for a more comprehensive explanation.

Did I miss something? Let me know on Twitter or in the comments and it will be added to the list.

Databases / models

Natural Stat Trick

Everything you need to get started with advanced stats. Free, easy-to-use, and tools for analyzing everything from individual players, line combinations, and single-game performance.

• Player tables

• Team tables

• Goalie tables

• Game stats

Evolving hockey

One of the most useful collections of stat tools available. Includes basic rate stats databases, but also charts and visualizations based around proprietary GAR, xGAR, and RAPM models.

• Stats database - players (free)

  • The only place to find relative teammate CF% and XGF% right now - useful stats for comparing a player’s shot and expected goal impact.

• Stats database - teams (free)

• Stats database - goalies (free)

• Stats database - league (free)

• Line and combo database (free)

• Player pages (free)

• GAR (Goals Above Replacement) tables ($)

  • Linked to the skater table here, but they also have team, goalie, penalty shooting, and expected GAR

• RAPM (Rate Adjusted Plus Minus) skater tables ($)

• RAPM team table ($)

  • Explanation of RAPM

• Game stats ($)

• Player cards ($)

• Other tools ($)

  • PbP query tool

  • Shift query tool

  • Skater similarity tool

  • Contract projections

  • Player projections

Moneypuck

A site that runs the gambit from player result tables to playoff odds projections.

• Player tables

• Line combo stables

• Team charts

• Goalies

• Power rankings

• Playoff odds

• Game probability win charts

PuckIQ

A database that tracks ice time and shot impacts against different levels of competition (elite, middle, gritty).

• Team tables

• WOWY (with or without you) tool

• Shift charts

Corey Sznadjer’s tracking project

Corey manually counts a collates player “micro stat” metrics, including zone entries, zone exits, and passing profiles.

• Patreon link

• Stats tracked (zone entries, passing, zone exits)

• Past season micro stat charts

Visualizations

Hockeyviz

The granddaddy of all hockey visualization sites. Operates in a proprietary model (explanation linked below), and has an incredible amount of options for analyzing the game.

• “How to” instructions

• Magnus Model update

• Free teams viz

• Game viz ($ - past seasons are free)

• Matchup simulator ($)

• PP shot locator ($)

• Environment distiller ($)

• Spray charts ($)

• XG Xplorer ($)

Hockey Stat Cards (Game score)

Visualizations and tables organized around Dom Luszczyszyn’s game score metric.

• Single-game stats

• Single-game impact chart

• Single Skater Cards

SeanTierny’s Charting Hockey

One of the best creator of graphs and charts anywhere, Sean’s Tableau page is a treasure trove.

• Player shot maps

• Team charts

• Skater charts

• Goalie charts

• Lineup creator ($)

• NHL win predictor ($)

JFresh player cards ($)

JFresh combines a number of key stats into a single, accessible player card:

JFresh @JFreshHockey

Jack Roslovic, traded to CBJ, is a middle-six playmaking centre whose underlying numbers took a sizeable hit last season. #CBJ

HBF Analytics

• NHL player cards

• NHL goalie cards

• NHL forward micro stat cards (2019-20)

• NHL defensemen micro stat cards (2019-20)

CJ Turtoro Microstat Viz

CJ leverages Corey Sznadjer’s stat tracking to create useful player comparisons and profiles.

• All 3 Zone performance (2017-20)

• All 3 Zone per 60 charts (2017-20)

• Player passing profiles

Wave Intel cards

Jason Paul 🥥 @WaveIntel

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• Versus player comparison cards

• Versus H2H team comparison cards

• True power play rank

SKATR player comparison cards (2018-2020)

NHL shotmaps (Twitter only)

NHL Shotmaps @shotmaps

At the end of the game the Blues defeat the Kings by a score of 4 to 2. #STLBlues #GoKingsGo #LAKvsSTL

Prospects

NHLe Calculator

An easy way to quickly calculate a prospect’s NHL equivalence.

Byron Bader’s Hockey Prospecting ($)

An incredibly useful prospect model based on age cohorts, NHLe, and prospect development rates. The goalie comparison tool is the first of its kind as far as I know, and a major step forward in trying to project goaltender prospect success.

• Player comparison tool ($)

• Drafter tool ($)

• Team prospect strength ($)

• Goalie comparison tool ($)

Pick 224 Prospect database

Heir apparent to the now defunct prospectstats.com. Look up a prospect’s stats from almost any feeder league.

Connor Jung’s APPLE (Applied Prospect PipeLinE)

• Explanation of the APPLE model

New Work

Patrick Bacon’s new Wins Above Replacement (WAR) model

• Model explanation

• 3-year WAR skater table

• 3-year WAR goalie table

The Win Column’s Player Offensive Evaluation Tool (POET)

Flames-centric blog the Win Column has developed a new model for evaluating individual skater offensive contributions. The model doesn’t have an accessible tool quite yet, but you can download an excel spreadsheet of the model’s output at the link below.

You can also Tweet individual player card requests at the Win Column on Twitter (linked above).

• Model explanation