{"id":2621,"date":"2010-04-12T00:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T04:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2621"},"modified":"2010-04-12T00:07:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T04:07:00","slug":"skating-off-topic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2621","title":{"rendered":"Skating Off Topic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puckprob.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 185px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 110px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459098275917733698\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/S8Kc9VoGH0I\/AAAAAAAABqg\/v6Ok8ZWaW1g\/s320\/puckprob.bmp\" \/><\/a><br \/>Long time blog readers will know that I enjoy playing around with political stats and numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I also enjoy playing around with hockey stats and numbers, so with the NHL playoffs here (for Leaf fans out there, that&#8217;s what happens <em>after<\/em> the regular season ends), I&#8217;ve gotten together with some friends and launched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.puckprob.com\/\">PuckProb.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Using our statistical model, we&#8217;ve simulated the NHL playoffs 10,000 times, allowing us to project out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.puckprob.com\/cup-prob\/\">probabilities of each team winning the cup<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.puckprob.com\/top200\/\">best scorers to pick in your playoff pool<\/a>, and the odds of Denis Coderre raising a stink about something that happens in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be adding blog posts and commentary in the coming days and in the coming weeks. So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.puckprob.com\/\">check &#8216;er out<\/a>. And forward the link on to your friends (unless, of course, you want to use the info to beat them in your pool).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long time blog readers will know that I enjoy playing around with political stats and numbers. Well, I also enjoy playing around with hockey stats and numbers, so with the NHL playoffs here (for Leaf fans out there, that&#8217;s what happens after the regular season ends), I&#8217;ve gotten together with some friends and launched PuckProb.com. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[579],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-with-numb3rs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}