NHL Advanced Statistics: Stats for Art Majors

Andy Marlin-USA TODAY SportsWhen I started out in hockey blogging with my co-blogger, Carolyn, one of us understood stats very well, and one of us did not. Carolyn dragged me kicking and screaming (and sometimes crying because, I’ll be honest, trying to understand these made me feel dumb, and I hate feeling dumb) into a basic understanding of what is actually up with analytics.

They say one of the best ways to learn is to teach, so I figured, if I can understand these terms well enough to explain them to someone else, I’ve probably got it down, right? We also figured that if you’re already not mathematically minded (which I’m totally not), it might be easier to have someone ELSE of the…