A quick look at quantifying the impact of offensive schemes and why it matters to the Caps
Last week, Ryan Stimson dropped a post over at Hockey-Graphs entitled "Tactalytics: Using Data to Inform Tactical Offensive Zone Decisions," which essentially quantifies aspects of a couple of pretty standard offensive schemes and compares the two. The post is thought-provoking for any number of reasons, including a couple that are of particular interest to us. First off, one of the approaches Stimson (who you'll remember him from the terrific guest post he did in this space using the data he accumulated through his project on passing microstats) takes a look at is a "low-to-high" set-up that's very familiar to Caps fans.