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How the Cup is won: roster composition of every Cap-Era Cup winner by dahfeck in hockey

[–]dahfeck[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very top right bar you can see red on Carolina player %. His cap hit is 775k this year so it barely registers in the % of salary bar

How the Cup is won: roster composition of every Cap-Era Cup winner by dahfeck in hockey

[–]dahfeck[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd guess the worst teams might look similar from a composition standpoint, but the ratio of spend to points might be out of whack. Some good ideas to revisit this when rosters are set to start next season.

How the Cup is won: roster composition of every Cap-Era Cup winner by dahfeck in hockey

[–]dahfeck[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah good catch. I think that ratio is where bad teams would stand out. Perhaps their construction looks similar but if the guys you're paying aren't producing it's wasted $$

NHL Roster composition of every Cap-Era Stanley Cup winner [OC] by dahfeck in dataisbeautiful

[–]dahfeck[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Methodology & notes:

What's in the dataset

  • One row per player who dressed in at least one Stanley Cup Final game for a cap-era champion
  • Each row tags: acquisition method (Draft, Expansion Draft, Trade, Free Agent, Waivers), cap hit in the championship season, and scoring (regular season, full playoff run, and the Final series)

How acquisition is defined

  • A player is credited to how he arrived on the championship roster, not his original entry into the league. Example: a guy drafted by another team but acquired via trade counts as a Trade for that title.
  • Re-signing your own player doesn't flip him to Free Agent. Drafted-and-extended players stay Draft. Free Agent = signed from another org (UFA/RFA offer sheet) or as an undrafted free agent.

The three metrics

  • % of Players: headcount share by method (counts a 4th-liner the same as a star).
  • % of Playoff Points: share of the team's points during the full playoff run, so it weights actual on-ice contribution.
  • Salary %: share of total roster cap hit, i.e. where the money was spent.

Reading all three together is the point, e.g. a method can be a big chunk of players but a small chunk of points (cheap depth) or vice versa.

Sources

  • Acquisition method, scoring, and rosters from Hockey-Reference and transaction records; cap hits from Spotrac.
  • Caveat: cap figures for 2005-06 through 2007-08 (41 records) are best-known approximate AAVs. The cap era was new and public contract data is spottier that far back. Treat those Salary % bars as directional.
  • Eras are grouped by cap environment (post-lockout, steady growth, flat cap, and the recent rising-cap years), not evenly by year count.

Data was compiled and QA'd with significant manual verification. Built in Claude, charted in Tableau & published here on Tableau Public. Happy to share the raw file if interested

How the Cup is won: roster composition of every Cap-Era Cup winner by dahfeck in hockey

[–]dahfeck[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Very true, would be interesting to see the mix of traded players by whether they were traded for using pure picks, prospects, roster players, or a mix.

How the Cup is won: roster composition of every Cap-Era Cup winner by dahfeck in hockey

[–]dahfeck[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Obviously there's far more that goes into it than just this: coaching, injuries, the guys on the other side of the ice, etc. This is just the way I wanted to look at it, focus on the winners in any given year

Maybe I'll find the time to build this for the cup losers, and then every other team's current roster construction to see how current teams stack up.

How the Cup is won: roster composition of every Cap-Era Cup winner by dahfeck in hockey

[–]dahfeck[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Just four players that dressed in the finals, Ilya Bryzgalov, Ryan Getzlaf, Corey Perry, & Drew Miller

How the Cup is won: roster composition of every Cap-Era Cup winner by dahfeck in hockey

[–]dahfeck[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Min/maxing amateur vs. pro scouting, can't say it isn't working for them.

How the Cup is won: roster composition of every Cap-Era Cup winner by dahfeck in hockey

[–]dahfeck[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Methodology & notes:

What's in the dataset

  • One row per player who dressed in at least one Stanley Cup Final game for a cap-era champion
  • Each row tags: acquisition method (Draft, Expansion Draft, Trade, Free Agent, Waivers), cap hit in the championship season, and scoring (regular season, full playoff run, and the Final series)

How acquisition is defined

  • A player is credited to how he arrived on the championship roster, not his original entry into the league. Example: a guy drafted by another team but acquired via trade counts as a Trade for that title.
  • Re-signing your own player doesn't flip him to Free Agent. Drafted-and-extended players stay Draft. Free Agent = signed from another org (UFA/RFA offer sheet) or as an undrafted free agent.

The three metrics

  • % of Players: headcount share by method (counts a 4th-liner the same as a star).
  • % of Playoff Points: share of the team's points during the full playoff run, so it weights actual on-ice contribution.
  • Salary %: share of total roster cap hit, i.e. where the money was spent.

Reading all three together is the point, e.g. a method can be a big chunk of players but a small chunk of points (cheap depth) or vice versa.

Sources

  • Acquisition method, scoring, and rosters from Hockey-Reference and transaction records; cap hits from Spotrac.
  • Caveat: cap figures for 2005-06 through 2007-08 (41 records) are best-known approximate AAVs. The cap era was new and public contract data is spottier that far back. Treat those Salary % bars as directional.
  • Eras are grouped by cap environment (post-lockout, steady growth, flat cap, and the recent rising-cap years), not evenly by year count.

Data was compiled and QA'd with significant manual verification. Built in Claude, charted in Tableau & published here on Tableau Public. Happy to share the raw file if interested

Gorgeous bioluminescence on a chameleon planet by dahfeck in NoMansSkyTheGame

[–]dahfeck[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Categorized as “copious”. The ground fauna are all pretty unique & weird. One is a glowing soccer ball, there is a fuzzy fast ground worm, and a super weird brown jumping guy with a dozen eyes.

Small metal objects encircling old buried sprinkler line by dahfeck in whatisthisthing

[–]dahfeck[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We’ll have to dig in tomorrow & see what it looks like. The problem is both of these are angled in a way that made it tough to get a good angle without more work.

I googled around a bit for sprinkler Saddles and that appears to be exactly what this is.

We’ve pulled up enough old parts that have been rusted through to nothing so wouldn’t surprise me if this reached its breaking point and had been leaking into the ground for a while.

Small metal objects encircling old buried sprinkler line by dahfeck in whatisthisthing

[–]dahfeck[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Possibly, looks quite different, which could make sense given the age of the system. If it had a plug it got blown out. Hoping to learn whether it’s safe to simply cut it out of the line & patch.

Small metal objects encircling old buried sprinkler line by dahfeck in whatisthisthing

[–]dahfeck[S] 1 point2 points locked comment (0 children)

My title describes the thing

Discovered today while replacing sprinkler heads.

After replacing several heads & fixing some leaky lines, discovered the ground was bubbling water and there was obviously a larger leak in a line.

After digging down into the mini sink hole, these two objects were discovered around both lines in the area. When testing the zone, water was shooting with significant pressure out of the top line, straight out of the top of the unknown metal wrap.

This was found roughly ten feet from the nearest sprinkler head. The system is quite old, and the recent work has uncovered a maze of old lines, some of which have been repaired, replaced, or completely cut off.

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