As my first full year as a part of the hockey analytics community wraps up, I was extended the opportunity to review Rob Vollman's latest installation in the Hockey Abstract series. Rebranded as Stat Shot for the fourth installation, Vollman and colleagues Iain Fyffe and Tom Awad attempted to tackle several important questions, including how to properly construct a hockey team and how to project a junior player's statistics. What follows is my review of their work.
As a relative newcomer to the hockey analytics world, I found myself in a unique position to review their work. For me, the most important pieces of this book are the in-text references.