Heraldk

Ahh, playoff hockey. The last update was rushed, so I’ll go back to the first round to have a look at how we’ve done so far: NY Rangers   0.657 0.391 0.180 0.093 Boston       0.807 0.566 0.354 0.218 Florida      0.305 0.056 0.012 0.003 Pittsburgh   0.629 0.374 0.214 0.123 Philadelphia [...]

I’m in a rush and can’t write any commentary, but here’s the predictions for the round 2 matchups: NY_Rangers   0.717 0.416 0.223 Philadelphia 0.546 0.276 0.132 New_Jersey   0.454 0.210 0.092 Washington   0.283 0.098 0.031 St_Louis     0.643 0.410 0.249 Phoenix      0.436 0.168 0.072 Nashville    0.564 0.248 0.122 Los_Angeles [...]

Greetings once again! I had grandiose plans of getting a new version of the simulator done in time for the playoffs this year. Oops – looks like the playoffs are going to start before I get there. Damn. Oh well – for now, here’s the old simulator run for the first round. Maybe I’ll get [...]

Well that was a fun round. Dwayne Roloson and the Tampa Bay Lightning very nearly toppled Boston. It was a pretty sick run for that team. Vancouver kind of waltzed past the San Jose, although it was a pretty hard fought series. Here’s how the predictor did for this round: Boston_Bruins       0.718 [...]

Well the 2nd round was almost totally lame compared to the first round as many of the series looked like they were going to be short one-sided affairs. But the Western matchups were made into series as both Nashville and Detroit put up good fights before finally bowing out. Here’s a look at how the [...]

The NHL seems to have a quicker turnaround this year between the first and second rounds, so I’m trying to get this post out in a hurry. The first round of the playoffs was about as exciting a round as I think I can remember. Several multi-goal deficits were erased, lots of OT, lots of [...]

For previous years see 2008, 2009, 2010 I don’t think it should be a surprise to anyone that Vancouver is heavily favoured to win the cup this year. A couple of interesting notes: Boston is the favourite out of the east this year, according to the simulator, despite sitting in 3rd in the East. This [...]