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)
• 2004-2005 (870)
• 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...

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.

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