In case you hadn’t noticed, the NHL has dumped their shift charts this year as part of their, um, “revamped” stats display. If you are unfamiliar, here’s an example from last year. They were a valuable tool, and I miss them as much as Tapeleg does.
So, I wrote a program to make a shift chart of my own:
It’s kind of crude for now, but I have some ideas to tweak it down the road. Before too long, I’d like to update it to display the various individual TOI (EV, PP and SH) on there (really meant to do that today, but I forgot). I’d also like to denote things like penalties and goals, which the NHL version had. I’d like to go one step further and color code the for the type of shift it is (blue for EV, red for PP for example). That’s probably a bit further down the down, and after some other projects, but it’s on the horizon at least.
One improvement it has over the NHL version: I’m able to group the players by position and arrange them by line/pairing (the NHL just sorted by jersey number). I think that makes it much easier to see who played with each other for which shifts, and also draw attention to the points where the lines deviated from the norm.
You’ll find these shift charts embedded in the ITCS Reports (example) going forward. I’ve also gone back and updated the reports, adding shift charts and goalie information for each game. In case you didn’t know, the Game List link at the top of the page will take to a list of all the Avalanche games, with links to all the pertinent recaps and reports.
Enjoy!
Very nice start. If you color code in shift types that will be a big improvement over the NHL version. I’m not sure how you did it but great work.
Well done. Not having the shift charts was a huge PITA. The new TOI tool nhl.com is…ok…but it’s not terribly useful in and of itself.
It’s almost like they forgot to actually make the data meaningful but just decided to barf out a bunch of numbers.
bad ASS. i miss the shift charts every time I check out a box score — thanks for doing this!
DD, that is a true work of art.
Excellent work
Thanks for your efforts iam freaking lost without shift charts i really liked being able to see if Q slide guys into certain situaitions.
I forgot to add this but i personally (last year) would hold a ruler up the screen to see whom was on that shift, but a line one could drag across the screen would be killer ( just thinking)
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