Enjoy your vacation Jeff!
The biggest additions to what the CSV exports would be:
- Simple shot location data: to make it simple, just seeing stats for high-danger shot attempts and low-danger shot attempts would work (that is, shot attempts from the slot, and from outside the slot).
- Types of goals: not sure if this is tracked in the game data, but whether a goal was scored off a rebound, deflection, or clean.
- Individual shot attempts/shot attempts against: this one is major. We get Corsi For, which is awesome, but having the data for each player would allow for Regularized Adjusted Plus Minus calculations, which is my *dream* lol.
- Zone Starts: this data is in the game, so I'm not sure why it doesn't show up in the CSVs. But it's an important metric when weighting CF and CA, since players with more DZ starts will likely have an inflated CA, and vice versa.
- Hits against: how many times a player gets hit provides insight into his possession skills, and possession is fundamental to WAR.
I won't pretend to know how easy or difficult it is to add each of these, but it at least provides an idea of what might be out there that isn't currently included in the CSVs. Also, an option to limit the CSV data to the league that contains a player-controlled team would be massive, assuming that would be easier than creating a new interface to select which leagues are and are not exported; instead, there are just two options: "Export World" and "Export League." Especially if the league option does not export retired players haha.
Please hit me up if you have any questions, suggestions, or information that may be of use! I have no plans to stop working on this any time soon, and the more big brains working on it together, the better.
