Winner's Curse

This page provides notes for the Winner's Curse Project with Jim Brander. Access is restricted to this page.

See also:

• The Winner's Curse Literature Review

Player's Data

The player's data will be retrieved by a web-crawler from http://www.nhl.com.

Specifically, go to Stats->Individuals or Stats, then the Players tab.

We want all seasons (no. players):

• 1997-1998 (763)
• 1998-1999 (817)
• 1999-2000 (838)
• 2000-2001 (884)
• 2001-2002 (874)
• 2002-2003 (888)
• 2003-2004 (916)
• The was no 2004-2005 (870). This should not be included in pull list.
• 2006-2007 (858)
• 2007-2008 (852)
• 2008-2009 (885)
• 2009-2010 (879)
• 2010-2011 (891)
• 2011-2012 (894)

(14 seasons available - param pass is without the dash, e.g. season=20112012).

Pages (viewName=):

• Summary (summary)

(Player   Team   Pos   GP   G   A   P   +/-   PIM   PP   SH   GW   OT   S   S%   TOI/G   Sft/G   FO%)

• Assists (assists)

Player   Team   Pos   GP   G   A   P   +/-   ESA   SHA   PPA   HmA   RdA   DvA   ODvA   A/G

• Bios (bios)

#     Player     Team     Pos     DOB     Birth City     S/P     Ctry     HT     Wt     S     Rk     GP     G     A     Pts     +/-     PIM    TOI/G

• Goals (goals)

Player   Team   Pos   GP   G   A   Pts   +/-   ESG   PPG   SHG   1G   OTG   GWG   HmG   RdG   DvG   ODvG   ENG   PSG   PST   G/G 

• Home (homeScoring)

Player   Team   Pos   Home: GP   G   A   P   +/-   PIM   Pen   EV TOI/g   PP TOI/G   SH TOI/G   TOI/G   FO   FOW   FOL   FO% 

• Penalties (penalties)

Player   Team   Pos   GP   PIM   Minor   Major   Misc   G Misc   Match 

• Plus/Minus (plusMinus)

Player   Team   Pos   GP   G   A   P   +/-   Home +/-   Road +/-   Div +/-   Other Div +/-   Team GF   Team PPGF   Team GA   Team PPGA 

• Points (points)

Player   Team   Pos   GP   G   A   P   +/-   ESP   SHP   PPP   HmP   RdP   DvP   ODvP   P/G

• Real-time Stats (rtssPlayerStats)

PlayerStats)
Player   Team   Pos   GP   Hits   BkS   MsS   GvA   TkA   FOW   FOL   Tot   FO%   %Tm   Shots   G   S% 

• Road (roadScoring)

Player   Team   Pos   Road: GP   G   A   P   +/-   PIM   Pen   EV TOI/g   PP TOI/G   SH TOI/G   TOI/G   FO   FOW   FOL   FO% 

• Shooting % (shootingAll)

Player   Team   Pos   GP   S   G   S%   S/G   PS Goals   PS Taken 

• Shootouts (shootouts)

Player   Team   Pos   Home: S   G   S%   GDG   Road: S   G   S%   GDG   Total: S   G   S%   GDG 

• Special Teams (scoringLeaders)

Player   Team   Pos   GP   Even: G   A   P   Power Play: G   A   P   Shorthanded: G   A   P   GW   OT 

• Time On Ice (timeOnIce)

Player   Team   Pos   GP   ES TOI   ES TOI/G   SH TOI   SH TOI/G   PP TOI   PP TOI/G   TOI   TOI/G   Shifts   TOI/S   Sft/G 

• Division Goals (divisionScoring)

Player   Team   Pos   Dv GP   Dv G   Dv A   Dv P   Dv +/-   ODGP   OD G   OD A   OD P   OD+/-   TtlGP   TtlG   TtlA   TtlP   Ttl+/- 

• Faceoffs (faceOffPercentageAll)

Player   Team   Pos   GP   ESFOW   ESFOL   PPFOW   PPFOL   SHFOW   SHFOL   HFOW   HFOL   HFO%   RFOW   RFOL   RFO%   FOW   FOL   Tot   FO% 

Season:

• Regular season (gameType=2)
• Playoffs (gameType=3)

Contract Data

The contract data will be taken from http://www.CapGeek.com

Using Player IDs:

• The latest player id is probably 2352 (assigned to Biggs, Taylor, who signed a new entry level contract on 8/9 at 19:46). See http://www.capgeek.com/latest_contracts.php and look for the highest entry for an new signing.
• The first player id is 11 (1 through 10 all give a no player id page).
• Contract history for players by id (e.g. 213) is available from http://www.capgeek.com/players/display.php?id=213

The player name is in a page level 1 header, followed by position and team name (which is hyperlinked) in the page level 2 header.

We want the Contract History. Specifically, the header data, then the following section data. We should also take the known clauses...

There is a bug in the script tha leads to contamination in the data. This can be removed with s/.*CONTRACT DETAILS.*\n//;

Buyout data

All known (to capgeek) buyouts are listed on the page http://www.capgeek.com/buyouts.php

Arbitration data

All I have so far is:

• http://www.cbssports.com/nhl/story/10879613 which covers 2008
• http://www.nhlpa.com/news/salary-arbitration which doesn't give details, but appears the official source.
• http://www.mynhltraderumors.com/2011/07/06/2011-nhl-salary-arbitration-list/
• http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/feature/?id=46931
• http://www.mynhltraderumors.com/2010/07/06/31-players-file-for-nhlsalary-arbitration/
• http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/feature/?id=11919

And some articles/blog posts:

• http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/story/2012/07/06/sp-nhl-hockey-salary-arbitration.html
• http://bleacherreport.com/articles/416350-hes-filing-for-arbitration-right
• http://espn.go.com/blog/nhl/post/_/id/18227/16-players-file-for-salary-arbitration
• http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CEsQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fscholarship.law.marquette.edu%2Fcgi%2Fviewcontent.cgi%3Farticle%3D1090%26context%3Dsportslaw&ei=oF0kUOjnDaStygGdloGICQ&usg=AFQjCNFVdbuIrKocqXl3w5Gm7gT32r5LcA