There is a trend for defensemen, forwards, goalies and even enforcers for their production vs the years of NHL experience. Check the articles at :

http://www.thephysicsofhockey.com/ye.htm

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Fergie, thumbs up for finding this. I love seeing published stuff on statistical analysis in hockey.

However, as a statistician, I was hoping to find something a little more detailed and rigourous. The authors\' sample sizes were limited (2005-06 players only), and multivariate analyses could have been more revealing. Not enough info is provided to critically assess the strength of their findings (e.g. no R-squares provided for regressions).

For those of you too busy to download and read the authors\' 4 brief pdf\'s on this topic, let me summarize their findings for you here:
Generally, forwards and goalies need about 4 years of NHL experience to reach their prime. Defencemen need 6 years. Goalies (in their limited sample anyway) experienced surprising dips in their save% (the only stat they studied) in their 8th and 13th years. The study season\'s 34 top enforcers\' PIMs/game were shown to be slightly negatively correlated with years of experience.

These guys are physicists first and hockey fans second. Their other stuff on physics in hockey is better.

This takes the cake though:

http://www.thephysicsofhockey.com/video/chelios.wmv

Check out Samuel L. Jackson as Chelios\'s coach.

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19 tm x 30 plyr, 12F+6D+2G active weekly
8 Rotocats: F-G, F-A, D-G, D-A, Tm PIM, Tm +/-, G-Pts, GAA
0 to 15 keepers (LTC options), auction to 20, draft 10 more
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F: Malkin M.Koivu Ribeiro Benn A.McDonald Hornqvist C.Stewart Gallagher Matthias Beleskey Frolik Zuccarello Loktionov Hendricks Burmistrov Atkinson Sheppard Nyquist Bjugstad
D: Byfuglien Chara Ju.Schultz Josi Myers Brodin Dillon Postma Orlov
G: Price Dubnyk

Fergie is actually one of the authors, fyi...

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14 Team Keeper, points only, best 12 skaters 2 dman 2 G count. Playoffs count.
F - Crosby, C.Smith, Wheeler, Parenteau, Hudler, Clowe, Grabovski, Atkinson, Frolik, S. Kostitsyn, Marchand, Peverley, Tavares, Read, Brouwer, Bickell, Gionta, Setoguchi
G - Anderson, Hiller, Markstrom, Brodeur
D - Letang, Del Zotto, I. White, Kronwall, Brodin, Nikitin

Yikes. Is my face red...

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19 tm x 30 plyr, 12F+6D+2G active weekly
8 Rotocats: F-G, F-A, D-G, D-A, Tm PIM, Tm +/-, G-Pts, GAA
0 to 15 keepers (LTC options), auction to 20, draft 10 more
--
F: Malkin M.Koivu Ribeiro Benn A.McDonald Hornqvist C.Stewart Gallagher Matthias Beleskey Frolik Zuccarello Loktionov Hendricks Burmistrov Atkinson Sheppard Nyquist Bjugstad
D: Byfuglien Chara Ju.Schultz Josi Myers Brodin Dillon Postma Orlov
G: Price Dubnyk

you\'re the man , that is funny!

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Roto type keeper league.We keep any 6 ;15 teams , 3 div. of 5.We play 3 lines , 3 def. and start 2 goalies.6 BN.Stats are 1pt. for goals and assists , 2pts. for W , tie(O.T. or S.O. loss) 1pt. S.O. 1pt.Weekly line-up from Mon. to Sun.

LW - Malkin
LW - J. Skinner
LW - T. Ennis
LW - Conacher
LW - Raymond
C - Matthias
C - M. Richards
C - V. Filppula
C - Vermette
RW - B. Schenn
RW - M. Read
RW - J. Huberdeau
RW - M. Gaborik
Def. - Pietrangelo
Def. - B. Smith
Def. - Diaz
Def. - OEL
Def. - Stoner
G - Louongo
G - Markstrom
G - Neuvirth

The whole purpose of this website is to give some nice information, either in physics or in stats for everyone.

Hence, keep everything simple for everyone to understand. I don\'t think that everyone knows about chi-square and Gaussian functions and what it means.

Still, enjoy the site. We have some interesting facts and some interesting hockey physics examples that everyone can understand.

http://www.thephysicsofhockey.com

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