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

2. 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.

3. 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
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.

4. The Dataset five fields Teams: text fields Goals: number fields
Penguins, devils, flyers
Goals: number fields
Highest number of goals in a game between 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.

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

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

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

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

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

10. Questions/Comments
Thank you for your time!