Investigation on wins Kayla Brownfield DSCI 101 Fall 2018 NHL Game Stats Investigation on wins Kayla Brownfield DSCI 101 Fall 2018

Investigation on Wins Is there a better chance at winning a game if it is home or away? Possible factors investigated Venue Team outcomes This investigation was done to see if there is a better chance at winning a game if it is home or away. The factors that I investigated were the venues, teams, and outcomes.

My Data NHL game stats came from Kaggle Originally obtained from the NHL’s official website Information on 7,441 games Games were both playoff and regular season Season in 2013-2018 A CVS file 805 KB My data from Kaggle originally came from the NHL official website. 7,441 games were recorded. Games were either playoff or regular.

The Dataset five fields Teams: text fields Goals: number fields Penguins, devils, flyers Goals: number fields Highest number of goals in a game between 2013-2018 is 10 outcome: text field Possible outcomes include: home regular time, overtime, shoot out away regular time, overtime, shoot out Teams were divided by home and away. Goals were also divided by home and away.

Identifying teams The original data had team ids with numbers Looked up the team names on worksheet #2

Calculating wins and losses Outcome field: Countif function used to calculated all possible outcomes

Problems with data There were no problems Data was clean All fields needed were presented

Results A hockey team has a…. 55% chance of winning a home game 45% chance of winning an away game

Future Work Try to get data for all sports Test other factors such as.. Side of rink they start on Starting players goalies

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