With a new metric, based on the Elo chess rating system, we will revolutionize advanced hockey statistics.
Our hockey Elo metric evaluates a player's overall two-way play: scoring AND defense, even strength AND power-play/penalty-kill.
Elo ratings are relativistic, for example if Player A (below average) plays well on a shift against Player B (above average), then the Elo of Player A will go up!
A player's Elo is updated dynamically, with each shift a players Elo may go up or down without one large calculation on the player's dataset.
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Who are We?
Find out about how one hockey lover in a windowless office at Stanford University worked with some friends to come up with the Elo algorithm.
Algorithm tests
Ready to learn more? We can use our metric in so many ways, not to just rank a player's two-way play. This area has lots of tables and cool plots if you're into colourful things like that.