To complement the current Swiss hockey statistics resources so that you, hockey fans, can engage more with its data, I decided to launch a new Swiss hockey website entirely focusing on hockey statistics, called NL Ice Data. The goal is to present statistics for the the National League, Swiss League, Junioren Elite A, Novizen Elite and Mini Top.
By using most of the different statistics the SIHF displays on its
website
this platform aims at providing new interactive tools to better analyse teams, players and goalies performances to better understand the game of hockey.
A non-exhaustive list of tools including:
- Interactive tables and charts;
- New available statistics and metrics for Swiss hockey (GF/GA for teams and players, Corsi and Fenwick for teams). More will come soon before this season's end.
- Shot tracker maps;
- A glossary to explain the different terms used on this website and in the hockey analytics community.
New tools and statistics along with some projects will be added to the platform, stay tuned! News and website's updates will be shared on the following Twitter accounts:
@NLIceData
|
@spz19
If the League publishes its proprietary data, in whatever format (.json, .xml or else), this website will be able to add more
*advanced*
statistics for individual players.
This website is the result of a few hundred hours of work as part of a project made under the supervision of Hockey-Graphs through their Mentorship program. Hockey-Graphs is one of the most renowned, and deservedly so, analytical hockey resources in North America and regularly publishing research about various hockey topics (contracts, tactics and much more).
If you plan to use the different charts, table or data coming from this website, please link back to the website or Twitter accounts.
There is a possibility that some developments/data/charts contents will be made available through subscriptions in the future. The subscriptions will be affordable and will be reinvested in the website.
For any commercial use of the available content on this website, please send me an e-mail first at: nl.ice.data@gmail.com
As this website is new, do not hesitate to reach out would you have any remarks/suggestions or see any error:
- On Twitter:
@NLIceData
||
@spz19
- By e-mail:
nl.ice.data@gmail.com
For other hockey statistics on Swiss hockey, you surely know the following classic resources:
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www.sihf.com
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www.planetehockey.com
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www.hockeyfans.ch
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www.eliteprospects.com
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www.hockeydb.com
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www.leading-sport.com
For some more
*advanced*
hockey statistics on Swiss hockey, you can also use the following resources:
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Micha Hofer's hockey charts and viz
with Tableau || Blog:
Micha Hofer's blog
on
swisshockeyblogs.ch
about advanced stats in Switzerland
|| Twitter:
@EuroCaps
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Daniel Weinberger's website
about German and Swiss hockey
|| Twitter:
@DanielT_W
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Paul Yerly's blogspot (National League Stats)
with interactive tables and charts
|| Twitter:
@NLAStats
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MySports' videos and articles
on Advanced stats
|| Twitter (German) :
@MySports_CH
|| Twitter (French) :
@MySports_CH_fr
-
RSI Sports
proposes some analyses with Andreas Hanni
Thank you for your visit!
© NL Ice Data 2019. All Rights Reserved | Last updated: 20th March 2019
SIHF data availability has evolved and increased over the last ten years, as the SIHF has been tracking more and more statistics during the games (in the National (ex-NLA) and Swiss Leagues (ex-NLB)). The SIHF has kept part of these newly tracked statistics private. Yet, the SIHF still publicized more data over the last few years. The evolution since 2008/09 is as following for the National League:
- GF/GA: since 2008/09. This information is used to calculate the well-known but useless +/-. The League does not display it in on its website.
but the information is available on NL Ice data in the Players -> Statistics section.
- Shots on goal (SOG): since 2008/09.
- Shots against (SA), saves (SV) and saves percentage (SVS%): since 2010/11.
- Shootouts: since 2013/2014.
- Shots missed (SHM) and shots on post (SHP): since 2016/17.
- Blocked shots (BkS): Opponents shots blocked since 2016/17.
- Time on ice (TOI): since 2016/17
- Faceoffs: since 2016/17.
- Shot tracker: since the 28.02.2018.
Some of these statistics have been tracked and made available later for the Swiss League.
- GF/GA: since 2015/16.
- Shots on goal (SOG): since 2015/16.
- Shots against (SA), saves (SV) and saves percentage (SVS%): since 2015/16.
- Shootouts: since 2013/2014.
- Shots missed (SHM) and shots on post (SHP): since 2016/17.
- Blocked shots (BkS): Opponents shots blocked since 2017/18.
- Time on ice (TOI): not available.
- Faceoffs: not available.
- Shot tracker: not available.
For the juniors Leagues (Junioren Elite A, Novizen Elite and Mini Top), there hasn't been any new statistics made available since 2008/09.
At the current state of things, we are able to compute:
- Corsi/Fenwick per team and for all situations (without adjustments) since 2016/17.
- Since end of February 2018, we are able to have Corsi/Fenwick per team and per situation, using the shot tracker information.
- An xG model (should be coming soon), using the shot tracker and shots locations.
A non-exhaustive list as the current state of data availibility still offers some more possibilities. They will be talked about soon on this platform.
Even if there has been some improvements over the 10 last seasons, the League is still behind what's being done in North America or in other
European championships in terms of data availability for fans.
The SIHF has some proprietary data that could enable fans to have more
*advanced*
statistics at the player level.
If it publises its shifts information (shift charts: when each player was on the ice) and by crossing this information with the shot tracker, it would
enable fans or platformss like NL Ice Data to compute Corsi, Fenwick, xGF% and other more *advanced* metrics for every player in the League.
As stated above, there are differences in data availability between the different Leagues and over the years. As such, Statistics and Line tool tabs do not propose (at least, for the moment) any aggregate options over several seasons.
Some statistics, like the +/- or some more detailed faceoffs statistics, will not be displayed on this website.
- For the +/-, it has been said and repeated that it is not a useful statistical information. For some literatures on the
subject, please refer to the following resources and links:
Hockey Graphs (in English)
or on
Swiss Hockey Blogs (in French)
.
- For the faceoffs statistics: the League doesn't display as much faceoffs details for games as it does on its players statstics webpage.
As such, outside overall faceoffs numbers, your best resource is to use the League website.
In the
Statistics
tab for players, the following statistics do not consider empty-netter points (goals or assists) or situtations:
- G, A1, P1, A2, A, P, IPP, P/GP, P1/60, P/60, GF, GA, GF+/-, GF%, RelGF%, GF/60, GA/60, RelGF/60, RelGA/60, %GF, %GA, %OC (P1), %OC (P)
- SH% is also adjusted for empty-netter goals. As such, there will be a discrepancy between the SIHF SH% and the one computed on NL Ice Data for players having scored empty-netter goals.
The
Line tool
tab for players was created to compensate the fact that the shift charts are not made available by the League.
- It takes the line-up as source and only considers even-strength situations as lines often change in special situations.
- It makes the strong hypothesis that the players spent the whole game together at even-strength and that their points were made when playing together. The same holds true for the other displayed statistics.
The
Fouls
tab for players, goaltenders and teams tries to classify the different penalties in different categories
(which were inspired by a recent article on
The Athletic
by Olivier Bouchard.
Furthermore, it attemps to also classify the 10', 20' and 25' with the related penalties as they do not provide information about the foul itself (they are often called Automatic misconduct for example).
In the Statistics tab for goaltenders, there is a BtB indication stating if a goalie played two games in consecutives days.
The best and first improvment the League can make would be to publish all its raw data for games. It could offer the possibility, for a platform like NL Ice Data or another one, to publish the same kind of content as some North American resources - Natural Stat Trick | Corsica | HockeyViz - to name a few. There are also some simple additional statistics that could be made available: stating the player who drew the penalty, stating the players who were on the ice when there was a goal, more information about coachs records or statistics.
A second step the League could make is to improve and have more checks on the quality of its data:
- There are games where players scored, took a penalty or participated in the shootouts that are not on the gamesheet.
- Games were goals were scored in empty-netter situations:
example
- Lots of GF/GA information per players for the first seasons is missing.
- There are games like this
one
that are completly messy.
There are others. There will be an article posted on this website that will cover this topic in more details. Errors were corrected as best as possible.
| Statistic | Definition |
|---|---|
| GP | Games played |
| G | Goals |
| A1 | Primary assists |
| P1 | Primary points | G + A1 |
| A2 | Secondary assists |
| A | Assists | A1 + A2 |
| P | Points | G + A1 + A2 |
| ENG | Empty net goals |
| ENP | Empty net points |
| PTS | Total points | G + A1 + A2 + ENP |
| P/GP | Points per game | P/GP |
| P1/60 | Primary points per 60 minutes | 60/(TOI/P1) |
| P/60 | Points per 60 minutes | 60/(TOI/P) |
| TOI | Time on ice |
| TOI/GP | Time on ice per game |
| %TOI | Percentage of available team minutes played | TOI/TEAM TOI |
| GF | Goals for (+1 | when a player is on the ice for one of his team goal for) |
| GA | Goals against (-1 | when a player is on the ice for one of his team goal against) |
| GF+/- | Goals for difference | GF - GA |
| GF% | Goals for percentage | GF/(GF + GA) |
| RelGF% | Difference in goal differential when a player is on and off the ice | GF% (on the ice) - GF% (off the ice) |
| GF/60 | Goals for per 60 minutes | 60/(TOI/GF) |
| GA/60 | Goals against per 60 minutes | 60/(TOI/GA) |
| RelGF/60 | Difference in goals for per 60 minutes when a player is on and off the ice | GF/60 (on the ice) - GF/60 (off the ice) |
| RelGA/60 | Difference in goals against per 60 minutes when a player is on and off the ice | GA/60 (on the ice) - GA/60 (off the ice) |
| %GF | Percentage of GF the player was on the ice when his team scored a goal | GF (player)/GF (team) |
| %GA | Percentage of GA the player was on the ice when his team conceaded a goal | GA (player)/GA (team) |
| IPP | Individual player percentage - Number of points awarded to a player divided by the number of GF while he was on the ice | P/GF (player) |
| %OC (P1) | Offensive contribution percentage - Number of primary points (P1) awarded to a player divided by the number of GF while he was or not on the ice | P1/GF (team) |
| %OC (P) | Offensive contribution percentage - Number of points awarded (P) to a player divided by the number of GF while he was or not on the ice | P/GF (team) |
| SOG | Shots on goal |
| SHM | Shots missed |
| SOP | Shots on post |
| A/B | Shots blocked |
| SH% | Shooting percentage | Excluding empty netter goals and shots on goal on the empty net) |
| BkS | Shots against blocked |
| iCF | Individual Corsi for (All shots attempts for generated by a single player) | SOG + SHM + SOP + A/B |
| iCF/60 | Individual Corsi for (All shots attempts for generated by a single player) per 60 minutes | 60/(TOI/(SOG + SHM + SOP + A/B)) |
| iFF | Individual Fenwick for (Unblocked shots for) | SOG + SHM + SOP |
| iFF/60 | Individual Fenwick for (Unblocked shots for) per 60 minutes | 60/(TOI/(SOG + SHM + SOP)) |
| On target% | Percentage of shots attempts reaching the net | SOG/iCF |
| FOW | Faceoffs won |
| FOL | Faceoffs loss |
| FO% | Faceoffs percentage | FOW/(FOW + FOL) |
| PIM | Penalty minutes |
| Statistic | Definition |
|---|---|
| # SO | Number of shootouts played by the team when the player was dressed |
| %SO (1-5) | Percentage of shootouts where the player was selected as one of the first five shooters |
| PS | Shootout attempts |
| PSG | Shootout attempts scored |
| PSM | Shootout attempts missed |
| PS% | Shootout percentage | PSG/PS |
| S1, S2, ... | Number of shootout attempts as first shooter, second shooter, ... |
| S1-5 | Number of shootout attempts as one of the first five shooters |
| S6+ | Number of shootout attempts beyond the first five attempts |
| Statistic | Definition |
|---|---|
| PSAG | Shootout attempts |
| PSGA | Shootout attempts scored |
| PS SVS | Shootout attempts saved |
| PS SVS% | Shootout attempts save percentage |
| Statistic | Definition |
|---|---|
| SOW | Shootout win |
| SOL | Shootout loss |
| SOW% | Percentage of shootouts won | SOW/(SOW + SOL) |
| PS SVS% | Shootout attempts save percentage |
| Statistic | Definition |
|---|---|
| GA | Goals against |
| SVS | Saves |
| SA | Shots against |
| SV% | Saves percentage | SVS/SA |
| GSAA | Goals saved above average | (1 - SV% (League))*SA (goalkeeper) - GA (goalkeeper) |
| SV%+ | Adjusted saves percentage | (1 - SV% (League))/(1 - SV% (goalkeeper)) |
| GAA | Goals against per 60 minutes |
| SO | Number of shutouts |
| G1 | Number of games as starter |
| G2 | Number of games as back-up |
| BtB | Number of back-to-back games |
| %start | Percentage of games played as starter | G1/GP |
| OUT | Number of games being replaced by G2 |
| IN | Number of games replacing G1 |
| %OUT | Percentage of games being replaced |
| Statistic | Definition |
|---|---|
| GF_ | Goals for (excluding empty-netter goals and shootout goals) |
| GA_ | Goals against (excluding empty-netter goals and shootout goals) |
| GF_EN | Empty-netter goals for |
| GA_EN | Empty-netter goals against |
| GF_SO | SO goals for (+1 for every shootout win) |
| GA_SO | SO goals against (-1 for every shootout loss) |
| GF_EQ | Even-strength goals for |
| GA_EQ | Even-strength goals against |
| GF_PP | Power-play goals for |
| GA_PP | Power-play goals against |
| GF_SH | Shorthanded goals for |
| GA_SH | Shorthanded goals against |
| SH% | Shooting percentage | Excluding empty netter goals and shots on goal on the empty net) |
| PDO | PDO - Interpreted as luck factor | SH% + SV% |
| TOT TOI | Total time on ice |
| EQ TOI | Even-strength time on ice |
| CF | Corsi for (All shots attempts for) | SF + oSHM + oSOP + oBkS |
| CF/60 | Corsi for (All shots attempts for) per 60 minutes | 60/(TOI/(SF + oSHM + oSOP + oBkS)) |
| CA | Corsi against (All shots attempts against) | SA + dSHM + dSOP + dBkS |
| CA/60 | Corsi against (All shots attempts against) per 60 minutes | 60/(TOI/(SA + dSHM + dSOP + dBkS)) |
| CF% | Corsi for percentage | CF/(CF + CA) |
| FF | Fenwick for (All unblocked shots for) | SF + oSHM + oSOP |
| FF/60 | Fenwick for (All unblocked shots for) per 60 minutes | 60/(TOI/(SF + oSHM + oSOP)) |
| FA | Fenwick against (All unblocked shots against) | SA + dSHM + dSOP |
| FA/60 | Fenwick against (All unblocked shots against) per 60 minutes | 60/(TOI/(SA + dSHM + dSOP)) |
| FF% | Fenwick for percentage | FF/(FF + FA) |
| SF | Shot for (All shots on goal for) | SF |
| SF/60 | Shot for (All shots on goal for) per 60 minutes | 60/(TOI/SF) |
| SA | Shot against (All shots on goal against) | SA |
| SA/60 | Shot against (All shots on goal against) per 60 minutes | 60/(TOI/SA) |
| SF% | Shot for percentage | SF/(SF + SA) |
| Pace/60 | Total shot attempts from both teams - CF + CA per 60 minutes | 60/(TOI/(CF + CA)) |
| oSHM | Shot for missed |
| oSOP | Shot on post for |
| oBkS | Shot for blocked |
| dSHM | Shot against missed |
| dSOP | Shot on post against |
| dBkS | Shot against blocked |
| PP TOI | Power-play time on ice |
| PP OP | Power-play opportunities |
| GF_PP/60 | Power-play goals for per 60 minutes | 60/(PP TOI/GF) |
| PP% | Power-play percentage | (GF/PP OP) |
| SH TOI | Shorthanded time on ice |
| SH SI | Shorthanded situations |
| GA_SH/60 | Shorthanded goals against per 60 minutes | 60/(SH TOI/GA) |
| PK% | Shorthanded situations |
| Statistic | Definition |
|---|---|
| W | Win |
| OTW | Overtime win |
| SOW | Shootout win |
| L | Loss |
| OTL | Overtime loss |
| SOL | Shootout loss |
| Leading% | Percentage of time a team spent leading |
| Tied% | Percentage of time a team spent tied |
| Trailing% | Percentage of time a team spent trailing |