Hockey Facts and Stats 2008-2009


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Collins Gem Hockey Facts & Stats was the #1 hockey book in Canada in 2007, outselling even the NHL Official Guide and Record Book. Now updated for the 2008-09 season, this pocket-sized marvel returns with new stats and even more facts than before. It covers all of the 2007-08 NHL results and international hockey information. It also includes a special feature on the World Junior Championships--just in time for the 2009 tournament in Ottawa as Team Canada attempts to win an astounding fifth consecutive championship. The ultimate reference for hockey pools and trivia leagues, and an ideal stocking stuffer for fans of all ages, Collins Gem Hockey Facts & Stats is ready for another winning year. Collins Gem Hockey Facts & Stats includes * an A-to-Z directory of players, with comprehensive stats and biographical information * team histories, NHL standings and Stanley Cup finals results since 1917 * a complete list of players and personalities enshrined in the Hockey Hall of Fame * a summary of the 2007-08 NHL season, including shootout statistics and scoring leaders * results and standings for World, World Junior and Olympic Championships Features an expanded section on the international ice hockey federation World junior hockey championships to be held in Ottawa in 2009.




Hockey Facts & Stats 2012-13


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Hockey Facts & Stats was the #1 hockey statistics annual in Canada for the sixth year in a row in 2011. With its bestselling two-colour look and more generous trim size, it’s poised to be #1 again in 2012. As always, Hockey Facts & Stats will be updated with all of the latest stats, but this year it includes even more interesting facts, from top-ten lists (like women who should be in the Hockey Hall of Fame and the game’s ten best goalies) to profiles detailing the journeys of 2012’s MVP, Rookie of the Year and Stanley Cup champs. It also includes team histories, the complete 2011–12 NHL season in review, international standings and more. The ultimate reference for hockey pools and trivia leagues, and an ideal stocking stuffer for fans of every age, Hockey Facts & Stats is set for another winning year. This year’s bigger and better-than-ever Hockey Facts & Stats includes: fully updated international results and standings an A-to-Z directory of NHL players with comprehensive stats and biographical information team histories, NHL standings and Stanley Cup finals results since 1917 a complete list of players and personalities enshrined in the Hockey Hall of Fame a summary of the 2011–12 NHL season, including shootout statistics and scoring leaders.




Hockey Facts & Stats 2011-2012


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Hockey Facts & Stats was the #1 hockey statistics book in Canada for the fifth year in a row in 2010. Now with a completely new look, two-colour interior and a more generous trim size, it’s destined to be #1 again in 2011. As always, Hockey Facts & Stats will be updated with all of the latest stats, but this year it will include even more interesting facts, from controversial top-ten lists to profiles detailing the journeys of 2011’s M.V.P., Rookie of the Year and Stanley Cup champs. It will also include team histories, the complete 2010–11 NHL season in review, international standings and more. The ultimate reference for hockey pools and trivia leagues, and an ideal stocking stuffer for fans of every age, Hockey Facts & Stats is set for another winning year. This year’s bigger and better than ever Hockey Facts & Stats includes Fully updated international results and standings, including a preview of the 2012 World Junior Championship in Calgary and Edmonton An A–Z directory of NHL players with comprehensive stats and biographical information Team histories, NHL standings and Stanley Cup finals results since 1917 A complete list of players and personalities enshrined in the Hockey Hall of Fame A summary of the 2010–11 NHL season, including shootout statistics and scoring leaders




The Toronto Maple Leafs, Ultimate Book of Facts, Stats, and Stories


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The Toronto Maple Leafs Ultimate Book of Facts, Stats, and Stories is the definitive guide to everything you want to know about the Toronto Maple Leafs as they approach their centennial season. From the first puck drop in 1917 right up to the present day, it brings together the monumental games, the Stanley Cup wins, the blockbuster trades, and the many milestones in the club's celebrated history.




Hockey Abstract Presents... Stat Shot


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Making advanced stats simple, practical, and fun for hockey fans Advanced stats give hockeyÍs powerbrokers an edge, and now fans can get in on the action. Stat Shot is a fun and informative guide hockey fans can use to understand and enjoy what analytics says about team building, a playerÍs junior numbers, measuring faceoff success, recording save percentage, the most one-sided trades in history, and everything you ever wanted to know about shot-based metrics. Acting as an invaluable supplement to traditional analysis, Stat Shot can be used to test the validity of conventional wisdom, and to gain insight into what teams are doing behind the scenes „ or maybe what they should be doing. Whether looking for a reference for leading-edge research and hard-to-find statistical data, or for passionate and engaging storytelling, Stat Shot belongs on every serious hockey fanÍs bookshelf.







Stat Shot: A Fan’s Guide to Hockey Analytics


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With every passing season, statistical analysis is playing an ever-increasing role in how hockey is played and covered. Knowledge of the underlying numbers can help fans stretch their enjoyment of the game. Acting as an invaluable supplement to traditional analysis, Stat Shot: A Fan’s Guide to Hockey Analytics can be used to test the validity of conventional wisdom and to gain insight into what teams are doing behind the scenes — or maybe what they should be doing! Inspired by Bill James’s Baseball Abstract, Rob Vollman has written a timeless reference of the mainstream applications and limitations of hockey analytics. With over 300 pages of fresh analysis, it includes a guide to the basics, how to place stats into context, how to translate data from one league to another, the most comprehensive glossary of hockey statistics, and more. Whether A Fan’s Guide to Hockey Analytics is used as a primer for today’s new statistics, as a reference for leading edge research and hard-to-find statistical data, or read for its passionate and engaging storytelling, it belongs on every serious fan’s bookshelf. A Fan’s Guide to Hockey Analytics makes advanced stats simple, practical, and fun.




Information Plus


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"The Information Plus Reference Series" provides statistical data on 32 of today's most controversial and most studied social issues. Each Information Plus title is a compilation of current and historical statistics -- with analysis -- on aspects of one contemporary social issue, such as abortion, capital punishment, and genetic engineering. Each title is divided into chapters that are devoted to a particular topic. The text provides a clear and comprehensive summary of up-to-date research on the topic and is interspersed with the statistical tables, charts, and graphs. Each table is directly referred to and carefully explained in the text.




Sports Data Mining


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Data mining is the process of extracting hidden patterns from data, and it’s commonly used in business, bioinformatics, counter-terrorism, and, increasingly, in professional sports. First popularized in Michael Lewis’ best-selling Moneyball: The Art of Winning An Unfair Game, it is has become an intrinsic part of all professional sports the world over, from baseball to cricket to soccer. While an industry has developed based on statistical analysis services for any given sport, or even for betting behavior analysis on these sports, no research-level book has considered the subject in any detail until now. Sports Data Mining brings together in one place the state of the art as it concerns an international array of sports: baseball, football, basketball, soccer, greyhound racing are all covered, and the authors (including Hsinchun Chen, one of the most esteemed and well-known experts in data mining in the world) present the latest research, developments, software available, and applications for each sport. They even examine the hidden patterns in gaming and wagering, along with the most common systems for wager analysis.




The Blessings of Disaster


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Are we doomed? As individuals, certainly, eventually, inevitably. But as a species? As a civilization? Leading catastrophe engineer Michel Bruneau thinks perhaps not. The Blessings of Disaster draws on knowledge from multiple disciplines to illustrate how our civilization’s future successes and failures in dealing with societal threats—be they pandemics, climate change, overpopulation, monetary collapse, and nuclear holocaust—can be predicted by observing how we currently cope with and react to natural and technological disasters. Maybe most importantly, this entertaining and often counter-intuitive book shows how we can think in better ways about disasters, to strengthen and extend our existence as both individuals and as a species. When it comes to rare extreme events, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, tornados, volcanic eruptions, technological accidents, terrorist attacks, pandemics, and even existential threats, it is in our nature to set ourselves up for disasters because the gamble may be worth it. But only maybe. The Blessing of Disaster is the very real story of the relationship between humans and disasters – and it’s not a simple one. Bringing together his decades-long career spanning the globe as an earthquake and disaster engineer, detailed catastrophe case studies from extreme events like Japan’s Kobe earthquake and category 5 hurricanes in the American South, along with thoughtful and practical solutions, Bruneau provides a thorough examination of the structural challenges that face today’s (and tomorrow’s) world. How we cope with today’s threats is indicative of what the future holds. Contrary to popular forecasts, it is not all gloom and doom – but some of it definitely is.