The product is usable and public while models and workflows continue to be tested.
Project direction
Build evidence for better hockey decisions.
Hockey Ops Lab is an independent, non-commercial analytics project exploring player impact, team construction, and eventually contract and roster decisions. Its long-term goal is a transparent assistant for front-office questions, not simply another collection of player cards.
Descriptive regular-season impact with visible components and documented assumptions.
The project currently uses MoneyPuck data under its public non-commercial terms.
Product principles
How the project earns trust
Important scores should expose their inputs, assumptions, sample treatment, and limitations.
New work should help answer a real roster, player-value, contract, or team-building question.
Observed results and future predictions remain clearly separated, with confidence added before forecasts are presented as decisions.
Model revisions, including mistakes and recalibrations, are documented as part of the project.
Development path
From evaluation to a GM workspace
- NowValidate player and team impact
Audit Observed WAR components, improve comparisons, and establish a dependable public beta.
- NextAdd decision context
Introduce player similarity, team needs, uncertainty, and approved contract information.
- LaterModel future outcomes
Train chronological next-season predictions and connect them to roster and contract scenarios.
Early feedback
Useful criticism improves the model.
Questions, unexpected results, broken data, and ideas for real front-office workflows are all valuable during the beta.