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The end of the regular season has long since passed, and for Leafs fans that means there's not an awful lot going on that's worth writing about. To fill in some of the time between now and draft/free agent speculation really ramping up, 67sound and I are going to try something a little bit different than what you'd normally see on a hockey blog. Over the course of the next several weeks we're going to exchange a series of letters (or their equally exciting modern equivalent: emails!) discussing our views about advanced statistics, the Toronto Maple Leafs, and whatever else seems to fit into the flow of the conversation. Once a week (if possible), I'll post the results here for everyone to read and, if you're into that kind of thing, discuss. These posts aren't likely to be filled with fancy charts (sorry nhlcheapshot) or complicated math, just what I hope will be an interesting discussion about where we're at as hockey fans and where we think the Leafs are at as a team. And so, without further ado, here's the first installment:
Dear 67sound,
I proposed that we start our discussion of advanced hockey statistics by explaining how we first came to learn about them, but the truth is that I don't entirely know. I remember when I first signed up to comment at Pension Plan Puppets, which was when the Leafs were doing poorly early on in the 2010-11 season and Brian Burke gave an interview on TSN about how the team's season ticket holders were happy with the direction of the team. And I also know that I first came across advanced stats from people in the PPP community; you were probably one of them. So I can trace the beginning of my desire to understand things like "Corsi" and "Qualcomp" to some time back around the beginning of 2011. That's not really all that long ago, which is strange to think about because it feels like I've been going on about those kinds of things for a while now.
I have to admit that at first I was pretty skeptical. I knew that +/- wasn't a very reliable indicator of ability for skaters, but beyond that I think I accepted a lot of fairly traditional beliefs about hockey stats, like that shooting percentage indicated players who shot the puck better (the mythical "shot quality") or that goals against average was a good way to measure goalie talent.
I like to think that I'm open to changing my mind as long as I'm presented with a compelling set of evidence that contradicts what I believe. Accepting that Corsi or Fenwick had some value was pretty easy. It's simple to understand why Corsi might be valuable – even people who have no knowledge of advanced statistics know how hard a good cycle down low in the offensive zone is to deal with, or how important it is to have "puck-moving" defencemen who can quickly and efficiently get the puck out of the defensive zone. Ultimately that's what Corsi is attempting to measure, and it's easy to see why that would be useful. As I read more articles by smart people like Gabriel Desjardins or Vic Ferrari I saw lots of evidence that Corsi was actually useful as a measurement of, if not individual ability, certainly team success.
What took me longer to come around on is the issue of shot quality. It seems pretty obvious that shot quality (that is, that some players are better at shooting the puck than others) is a real thing. We've all seen Ovechkin or Kovalchuk blast laser beams into the top corner often enough that it certainly seems like they must have a talent for it that other players don't. And to a degree, I do actually think that shot quality exists, but maybe not quite in the way that it's often conceptualised. I think that being able to evade defenders and get off shots is a hugely important part of what makes good goal scorers good at scoring goals (with exceptions for guys like Holmstrom who mostly score garbage goals). So maybe Mike Brown really can shoot the puck as well as Phil Kessel under the right circumstances, but the difference is that Kessel, whether through skating, positioning, hockey sense, or whatever else is an awful lot better at creating "the right circumstances". That's where I currently sit on that issue, but it's also the case that the more data I see on shot quality, the less important I think it is. I definitely do think that shot quantity is generally a more important skill, and that being able to generate a high volume of shots is a real skill that we ought to value.
It's kind of funny that I've gotten into this line of inquiry (fancystats, that is). Even though I'm employed as a computer programmer now, I studied history rather than computer science at university because I wasn't really interested in doing academic math. I do kind of wish sometimes that I had a better grasp of statistics and other kinds of math that I never bothered learning, because I think I'd have a better understanding of a lot of the more complicated hockey stats articles that go over my head a bit. And I'd definitely like to be able to do more of the hard work myself, rather than relying on other people to generate numbers and then just doing interpretation on them.
My interest in advanced hockey stats actually does line up with my educational background somewhat, though. I've always relied heavily on statistics in the history writing that I've done (my thesis has an entire chapter that's predominantly numbers) and I'm definitely interested in the idea of trying to piece together a puzzle in a way that provides an objective answer, or even a hint as to what an objective answer might look like and where we might want to look if we were to continue trying to find one. So from that standpoint, learning and writing about hockey stats fits my love of logical puzzle solving.
How about you? How did you first come across advanced hockey stats, and did you accept their usefulness right off the bat or struggle to come to grips with the idea that some of the ways you'd thought about hockey growing up were misinformed? What drew you to them in the first place, and what makes you continue to be interested in them now? Is it just that they're more reliable than other statistics or do you find that, like me, they satisfy some more fundamental aspect of your personality?
Looking forward to your response,
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Dear draglikepull,
I actually got into hockey analytics because of Joe Morgan. Or to be more specific, Fire Joe Morgan, the epic blog with the well-earned slogan "Where Bad Sports Journalism Goes to Die". Ken Tremendous (aka Michael Schur) and the boys combined a working knowledge of sabermetrics with biting sarcasm to eviscerate tired cliche after tired cliche. I had already read Moneyball and had a passing familiarity with baseball analytics, but Fire Joe Morgan made it fun.
Some time after the blog closed its doors in 2008 I started to poke around the Internet for a hockey equivalent. I think the first one I came across while looking for a similar hockey "fisking" site was Cox Bloc (@GoddTill and Kim Jorn), which led to places like Down Goes Brown, Pension Plan Puppets (@mlse and @felixpotvin) and Bitter Leaf Fan (@mforbes37). I also learned from a rec hockey teammate had one of our other teammates had this weird hockey stats blog--none other than Tyler Dellow, aka mc79hockey.
I'll always be grateful to PPP for creating a community where people like me discussed, debated and educated each other about hockey. I don't think any of us at PPP in those days were stats experts but there was a solid group of us who were open-minded, analytical and curious. Moreover, people would link to guys like Gabe Desjardins and his incredible Behind the Net database. I was also still reading mc79hockey, and he would link to a lot of other statistically-minded Oilers writers like Vic Ferrari.
The next step for me was Twitter. I had seen people at PPP linking to Twitter feeds around trade deadline or July 1, so I signed up to get the latest. I then learned that as good as it is for breaking news, it's even better for sharing opinions and analysis. I found out who the best hockey analytics people were around the league and started reading their stuff: @kent_wilson, @jonathanwillis, @camcharron, @BSH_EricT, @geoffdetweiler, @andrewberkshire, and many others I'm shamefully forgetting to mention here.
As a result of the education I've received, pretty much everything I used to believe about hockey has been overturned. Most fundamentally, five years ago I would have sworn that shot counts didn't tell you much because some teams just float around the perimeter and shoot 50 footers, while others go to the dirty areas and consistently get higher quality chances. While that may be true for individual periods or even games, it just doesn't hold up over a season. The most important thing in hockey, I now believe, is keeping the puck in the offensive zone. If you can do that consistently you'll get shots, some of them will be good shots, and some of them will go in.
What really clinched it for me is that every year around November, "surprise" teams will emerge. Despite getting outshot consistently, they'll defy the odds and the talking heads will credit it to "shot quality", "grit", "determination" or some other intangible characteristic. The hockey analytics crowd will predict their demise--and inevitably be proven correct. This year it was Minnesota. It's not even difficult to do. Everyone who pays attention to possession metrics could see the Wild's downfall a mile away.
So that's my back story. Let me ask you: what about our beloved Leafs? What do you think is their biggest need right now? Is it goaltending, forward or defence?
I wish I was funnier,


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Bank Of America: Mortgage Mess Resolved, Now Up To $20?
Achilles Research • Yesterday, 11:08 AM • 17 Comments
- Bank of America just announced that it settled with the DOJ for almost $17 billion.
- Despite the hefty price tag, investors cheered the settlement and are now looking forward to closing a nasty chapter in Bank of America's history.
- With further short-term momentum, I wouldn't be too surprised if Bank of America's shares, in an act of cockiness, tested the $20 mark.

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PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley is accepting applications in a program that helps prosecutors and public defenders repay their education loans.
Jackley says applications will be accepted through Dec. 31.
The attorney general says the federally funded program is an incentive for prosecutors and public defenders to remain in public service. He says attorneys frequently mention student loan debt as the overwhelming reason they leave jobs as prosecutors and public defenders or decline to take those positions in the first place.
State prosecutors and state or federal public defenders in South Dakota may qualify for help in repaying student loans if they sign a three-year service agreement.
Jackley says the program helps make sure crime victims and those accused of crimes get good legal representation.
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Purdue turned to the Mid-American Conference for a coach to revive its stalled program, bringing in Darrell Hazell from Kent State. Cincinnati lured Tommy Tuberville away from Texas Tech.
Both make debuts at their new schools on Saturday with a lot of uncertainty over how all the newness will play out on the field for the first time.
Coaches know a win would gain their players' trust. Cincinnati has extra motivation for the game at sold-out Nippert Stadium. It's the Bearcats' first as part of the new American Athletic Conference.
There are questions about how much Cincinnati quarterback Brendon Kay will play. He's been bothered by a sore passing shoulder.
Temperatures on the artificial turf are expected to be well over 100 degrees, stressing both teams.
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With Thomas Vermaelen already out, Arsenal were sweating over the fitness of Laurent Koscielny. They subjected him to a late fitness test, and the defender passed... only to then injure his calf in the warm-up.
Carl Jenkinson will come in to replace him, although which one of him and Bacary Sagna will play at centre-back is unclear. Elsewhere, Santiago Cazorla is on the wing, while Jack Wilshere, Mikel Arteta and Aaron Ramsey are all in the starting lineup.
For Sunderland, Alfred N'Diaye comes into the team, with the Black Cats appearing to make a chance from their usual 4-4-1-1 formation to play Stephane Sessegnon on the wing.
Sunderland (4-3-3): Simon Mignolet; Craig Gardner, Titus Bramble, John O'Shea, Danny Rose; Lee Cattermole, Alfred N'Diaye, Jack Colback; Adam Johnson, Stephane Sessegnon, Steven Fletcher.
Arsenal (4-3-3): Wojciech Szczesny; Bacary Sagna, Per Mertesacker, Jenkinson, Nacho Monreal; Mikel Arteta, Jack Wilshere, Aaron Ramsey; Theo Walcott, Olivier Giroud, Santiago Cazorla.


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Reviews for LEGO® The Hobbit™
Must-have for fansdiekatze | July 16, 2014 | See all diekatze's reviews »
If you loved Lego Lord of the Rings, the Lego The Hobbit doesn't fall far behind. The quality of the game is amazing as well, and the story itself is complete (except it only includes the first two parts) and includes sidequests. Anyone who has played Lego games before knows they are charming and entertaining. I definitely recommend this game to Tolkien / Lego fans.
Fan of the Lego Lord of the Rings Series? This is a must-have!DonVercetti | May 24, 2014 | See all DonVercetti's reviews »
Ever since falling in love with the Lord of the Rings Lego franchise from the same developer TT Games. This has been an instant buy for me. And after about 20-30 hours in to the game now, I can say it hasn't disappointed. It has the same charm and funfactor as it's predecessors. Even if you're just a Tolkien fan, get this game. It's Amazing!!
LOTR and LEGO. What more could you ask?johansdr | April 29, 2014 | See all johansdr's reviews »
I have played a lot of Lego videogames, but this is the best of all. I mean, is the story of the Hobbit, with the extra scenes of the film (and book obviously) and with that characteristic humor of Lego franchise.
The graphics are awesome, the gameplay too. So... BUY IT!
There And Almost Back AgainH4ZD4M4N | April 28, 2014 | See all H4ZD4M4N's reviews »
If you played LEGO: Lord of the Rings - and I'm guessing if you're thinking about purchasing this game that you did - you will enjoy this game. It brings the same humour and charm from that game over to the beloved story of Bilbo Baggins and his great adventure with Thorin's company of dwarves.
Like the Lord of the Rings game, there are plenty of side quests and extra areas which allow you to get a lot of replayabillity out of the game, but you won't feel like you missed out if you just play the main story.
Sadly though for book readers, the game only goes up to where the second movie did. I expect the third film will be added as DLC later on but I can't help but be a little disappointed that it wasn't here already.
Great gameKanzerReview | April 22, 2014 | See all KanzerReview's reviews »
The voice work and music was so dead accurate it was like it was taken from the films. Accompanied with familiar epic score going well with the cut scenes.
During gameplay when things get a little hectic and messy you can occasional glitches but it's fine sometimes it's funny to see them.
LEGO achievements never fail to be so random and somewhat difficult to get because you have to get to the most goofy situations in order to unlock them.
AstonishingCavalieroscuro | April 14, 2014 | See all Cavalieroscuro's reviews »
Do you love Lego Lord of the Rings? Then you will love Lego The Hobbit too! The game is plenty of cutscenes that reproduce the ones saw in the movies, and they are well done: even if you haven't seen the movies, you will understand the story. The gameplay is plenty of things to do, with free roaming areas. You can always play the game by beating story chapters, then clean up the rest in free roaming mode, unlocking new characters etc.
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Two men are in the hospital, one in critical condition, after a shooting early this morning at a Lexington Waffle House restaurant.
Police got a call about a large disorder at the Waffle House on Georgetown Road just before 3:00 Sunday morning.
While police were on their way, the call was updated. Police say they were told shots were fired in the parking lot.
When police arrived, they say they didn't find anyone who had been shot but later got a call two people were brought to UK Hospital with gunshot wounds.
One victim went right into surgery and police tell us is in critical condition.
"We were told it was a rather large disorder and we don't know exactly what happened that led to these two being shot, if this was a situation where they were hit by stray bullets, were they shooting at each other, that's something the detectives are still trying to figure out," said Chris Van Brackel with Lexington Police.
Lexington Police are still investigating. They're looking at surveillance video from inside the restaurant and asking anyone who was at the restaurant last night but ran off when the shots were fired, to call with any information they may have.
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Masterful data modeling
ER/Studio 7.1 conquers drudgery with easy, insightful tools
Despite what some people may think, data modeling is still the preferred method for creating database schemas. Unfortunately, modeling often gets pushed to the back burner in lieu of creating tables and relationships in the middle of coding the application. For those who would push data modeling to the front burner if only they had a better tool, there's Embarcadero's smooth and easy ER/Studio. Version 7.1 adds a number of exciting new features.
You can run ER/Studio either as a stand-alone client or connected to a central repository. The repository allows you to create a centralized database to house your models and apply security to control who can alter models and define enterprise-level data dictionaries for use in all models. The repository doesn't yet allow access to sub-models without also allowing access to the main model, and it's hampered by other minor shortcomings as well. Embarcadero, however, says it is working to enhance the functionality soon.
Easy imports
Reverse engineering an existing model is not only easy, it also comes with some attractive options. Usually when you import an existing model you have to spend a lot of time arranging the tables in some kind of meaningful format before you can even begin working; on really large models I've seen this process take as long as three days. Using ER/Studio you can reformat your models with a single click into one of seven model designs -- including circular, hierarchical, orthogonal, symmetric, and tree -- and you have plenty of options to control how each layout behaves. You can define handling options for both connected and disconnected entities including, but not limited to, node and edge spacing, staggering, and space between nodes.
You can also easily organize subject areas by defining any number of sub-models or using colored shapes to highlight different subject areas. For example, you could place all of the customer tables in a yellow circle, the distribution tables in a green box, and the billing tables in an orange pentagon. The colors work well for smaller models, but for larger models where you have hundreds of entities to fit on the screen, you will need to define sub-models for each logical section. Sub-models provide a very efficient way to view only those entities you want to see.
Capacity planning
ER/Studio boasts a new capacity planning feature that will help architects project disk requirements on the production system. For each table you can count the number of rows that are currently held. In the capacity-planning screen you can define many options for sizing your physical model including initial size, maximum size, growth rate, index usage, row overheads, and much more. After you fill in the required data, you can generate a report showing projected database growth over time. This is an extremely useful function that often goes overlooked in even the biggest enterprise development scenarios. One little extra I'd like to see added would be the capability to specify expansion percentages. Say a child table is always 25 percent larger than its parent. It would be nice to simply specify the growth of the parent table, and have its children taken care of automatically without needing to do the math.
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A man exposed himself inside a Snellville movie theater Thursday, according to Snellville police.
Authorities said the man sat down next to two teenage girls who were watching a Justin Bieber movie at the Regal Cinema on Main Street, leaving one seat in space between them.
Police said the man exposed himself during the movie, which is when the girls, who were inside the theater alone, got up and ran.
According to police, the manager of the theater said he believed he had a discussion with the man about why he was going from theater to theater.
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November 18, 2010
Dear John Tng and faithful doves,
Subj: A.C. Valdez Vision 1929—I.C.B.M. ATTACK on America with Graphic Details—A MUST READ!
Then the pressure that it creates following the explosion. It demolishes everything before it. It leaves a crater over 300 feet deep and over 2 miles across. It is capable of destroying a huge metropolis the size of New York City in one blast.
God took me, and whisked me across that area where the bomb hit in the midst of that huge metropolis. There was nothing left. The center where it struck was molten, like molten glass. It wasn't until I was carried away beyond the residential area that I began to see any sign of debris.
Finally, way, way out, beyond what I felt was the residential area, I began to find signs of human beings, only in pieces. Torsos, heads, hands, arms and legs. They were scattered around everywhere!
People were running. Everybody was blind. I didn't know in 1929 that if you are 35 miles away from the explosion and you happened to be looking in that direction you would never see again. I didn't know that at that time. Everybody was blind, my friends; they were running and screaming and bumping up against this and that and the other, bouncing back, children blind and screaming, and crying out for their parents, and parents for their children.
The farther I went the more the confusion, and the cries increased! My friends, even tonight, while I am speaking to you, I can hear those cries! I can hear those cries, children and parents screaming out for one another! It was a terrible sight to behold! If I were to live ten-thousand years I know I could just close my eyes, and hear those screams, and see the terror that was written all over the faces of parents and children! A terrible sight indeed!
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A wonderful surprise on Mothers Day.
Surprise your Nan this Mother's Day with this personalised mug. You can choose from Nan, Nanny or Grandma and you can display a message on the reverse of the mug. The mug is 10.5 cm high.
Personalisation: Message up to 60 characters.
Personalised Sterling Silver Cubic Zirconia Set Baby Feet Pendant
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Celebrate the birth of a little one with this adorable Personalised Sterling Silver Cubic Zirconia Baby Feet Pendant.
Crafted in crisp sterling silver, this pendant is shaped like cute little feet that have space for a name up to 8 characters, along with the birth date to commemorate such a special occasion.
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Celebrate a great romance with this stylish personalised Swarovski Heart Vase – though you may need to invest in a bunch of flowers too.
The perfect gift for a wedding, anniversary or birthday. This elegant vase features a stunning hand cut heart design and embedded Swarovski crystal elements as well as the engraved message of your choice up to 50 characters.
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- Stunning hand cut heart design
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Personalised Sterling Silver Coming of Age Cubic Zirconia Set Pendant
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Sterlings silver double charm pendant on 18 inch chain. Heart tag personalised with 1 name up to 10 characters with sterling silver and co set 18/21 /16 age charm.
This Personalised Lighter and Tobacco Tin makes a wonderfully personal gift.
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These name labels are perfect for school uniforms or gym kits. The football design can be personalised with any name up to 18 characters. Label dimensions are 50 x 8 mm and the pack contains 30 labels. The labels are easily transferred to clothes via ironing.
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This crystal block is a great keepsake to remember a special wedding day. It features a damask heart motif and can be personalised with any message up to 50 characters.
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Personalised Glass Barrel Vase
The personalised vase makes a thoughtful and surprising gift idea that's perfect to celebrate a special occasion, such as a birthday, anniversary or wedding.
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Other options is our great range of personalised gift ideas include a hipflask (see item number MJ549) and crystal and champagne gift set (MG113).
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This beautiful personalised compact mirror is an ideal gift for any occasion. Create a personal message up to 80 characters and we will have it engraved on the nickel-plated lid before it is sent to you.
This silver-finish compact mirror is the perfect gift idea for a special occasion, such as Mother's Day, a birthday or a wedding anniversary.
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