Statistical Sports Consulting
Founded by an NCAA Division I Hockey Coach and a professor of statistics, Statistical Sports Consulting develops data and decision making tools to give their clients a competitive edge in all facets of their business from recruiting/signing to game planning to in-game management.
2013 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
We are very fortunate a paper that I wrote with a former student, Jim Curro, accepted to the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference Research Paper Competition. The paper presents a new ratings system which we think is an improvement over the current approaches. It creates a [...]
Going First in NHL Shootout: A Statistical Analysis
With the end of the NHL lockout and the impending return of hockey, we thought we would take another look at NHL shootouts. (The last time around we looked at the ability of goalies and shooters and found that there was nothing but randomness. That [...]
More on NHL Faceoffs
This past Spring, two students of Schuckers did undergraduate honors theses at St. Lawrence analyzing NHL data. Tom Pasquali who is now a graduate student in Statistics at Villanova University focused on faceoffs while another student, Jim Curro (now a graduate student in Statistics at [...]
THoR takes 2nd Place in Research Paper Competition
A paper by Statistical Sports Consulting LLC co-founder Michael Schuckers and Jim Curro has won 2nd place in the Research Paper Competition at the 2013 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. Second places carries with it a $5000 prize. The conference has been called the ‘super [...]
2010-11 Defense Independent Goalie Ratings
2010-11 Defense Independent Goalie Ratings (DIGR) for 49 goalies with at least 600 shots faced.
