LabattBlue Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 Is this person a paid employee? Do they work for the team or the NHL? Volunteer? There has to be more than one person, as I can't see one person tracking shots on goal per player, hits, giveaways, takeaways, missed shots, blocked shots, time on ice, etc... Can anyone shed some light on this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
static70 Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 Is this person a paid employee? Do they work for the team or the NHL? Volunteer? There has to be more than one person, as I can't see one person tracking shots on goal per player, hits, giveaways, takeaways, missed shots, blocked shots, time on ice, etc... Can anyone shed some light on this? The Players report it themselves, thats why Torres has 19 goals this season :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calvin Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 Is this person a paid employee? Do they work for the team or the NHL? Volunteer? There has to be more than one person, as I can't see one person tracking shots on goal per player, hits, giveaways, takeaways, missed shots, blocked shots, time on ice, etc... Can anyone shed some light on this? heard something on WGR last night, i think it's a NHL employee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaFan Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 Is this person a paid employee? Do they work for the team or the NHL? Volunteer? There has to be more than one person, as I can't see one person tracking shots on goal per player, hits, giveaways, takeaways, missed shots, blocked shots, time on ice, etc... Can anyone shed some light on this? Not sure about all this but Hamilton was talking this morning about the person recording who scores and he said they are hired and work for the league, not the actual team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LabattBlue Posted March 25, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 Not sure about all this but Hamilton was talking this morning about the person recording who scores and he said they are hired and work for the league, not the actual team. Hard to believe that it is just one person for all the stats that are tracked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spndnchz Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 The computer based RTSS makes it much easier to compile stats, including hits, ice time, shots blocked, giveaway/takeaway, and faceoffs. I'd imagine there's more than one though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaFan Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 DaFan, on 25 March 2010 - 10:56 AM, said: Not sure about all this but Hamilton was talking this morning about the person recording who scores and he said they are hired and work for the league, not the actual team. Hard to believe that it is just one person for all the stats that are tracked. It's obvious that is not what I said.... clearly you understood that I said I was not sure about ALL that but Hamilton mentioned the person recording who scores goals is hired by the league not the team... ::sigh:: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpandean Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 Who keeps track of game statistics at the arena? I do, of course. Oh, you meant officially ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spndnchz Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 I talked with the NHL and they said this: There are 15 off-ice officials working behind the scenes at every NHL game, in every city, in every arena. The crew consists of 2 goal judges, a game time-keeper, a penalty time-keeper, 2 penalty box attendants, a commercial coordinator, the official scorer, 5 scoring staffers, a video replay judge and a spotter. The scoring staff uses 5 laptop computers in the press box to track everything from goals, assists and shots, to giveaways, takeaways, plus-minus rating and even the amount of time taken between faceoffs. Two of the laptops are used to update "stats entry," which are shots, blocked shots, missed shots, faceoffs, takeaways, giveaways, hits, penalties, plus-minus and time between faceoffs. Two of the laptops are designated to track individual player ice time, one for each team. The fifth computer is a backup. All the laptops operate the same functions and can be interchanged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PASabreFan Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 Here's a good explanation, LB: http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=388400 :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdexchange Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 I talked with the NHL and they said this: There are 15 off-ice officials working behind the scenes at every NHL game, in every city, in every arena. The crew consists of 2 goal judges, a game time-keeper, a penalty time-keeper, 2 penalty box attendants, a commercial coordinator, the official scorer, 5 scoring staffers, a video replay judge and a spotter. The scoring staff uses 5 laptop computers in the press box to track everything from goals, assists and shots, to giveaways, takeaways, plus-minus rating and even the amount of time taken between faceoffs. Two of the laptops are used to update "stats entry," which are shots, blocked shots, missed shots, faceoffs, takeaways, giveaways, hits, penalties, plus-minus and time between faceoffs. Two of the laptops are designated to track individual player ice time, one for each team. The fifth computer is a backup. All the laptops operate the same functions and can be interchanged. The guy who does this for the Sabres is a friend/acquaintance of mine. He once told me how it works. If I recall correctly, on his screen it shows a box for each player, and all he does all game is touch the corresponding box for each player any time that player enters or exits the ice. This is how ice time, shift length, etc is tracked in real time. At first his job sounded fun to me but after his explanation it sounds incredibly tedious and boring, lol. Still, he gets paid to go to the games so how bad can it be? He seemed to enjoy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LabattBlue Posted March 25, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 I talked with the NHL and they said this: There are 15 off-ice officials working behind the scenes at every NHL game, in every city, in every arena. The crew consists of 2 goal judges, a game time-keeper, a penalty time-keeper, 2 penalty box attendants, a commercial coordinator, the official scorer, 5 scoring staffers, a video replay judge and a spotter. The scoring staff uses 5 laptop computers in the press box to track everything from goals, assists and shots, to giveaways, takeaways, plus-minus rating and even the amount of time taken between faceoffs. Two of the laptops are used to update "stats entry," which are shots, blocked shots, missed shots, faceoffs, takeaways, giveaways, hits, penalties, plus-minus and time between faceoffs. Two of the laptops are designated to track individual player ice time, one for each team. The fifth computer is a backup. All the laptops operate the same functions and can be interchanged. Even in your "infected" state :D , you are still on top of your game. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrader Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 All of this sounds so much better than the hand written shot charts I see at college games. I'd hate to be that guy spending his entire time writing numbers all over a picture of a rink. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calvin Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 The guy who does this for the Sabres is a friend/acquaintance of mine. He once told me how it works. If I recall correctly, on his screen it shows a box for each player, and all he does all game is touch the corresponding box for each player any time that player enters or exits the ice. This is how ice time, shift length, etc is tracked in real time. At first his job sounded fun to me but after his explanation it sounds incredibly tedious and boring, lol. Still, he gets paid to go to the games so how bad can it be? He seemed to enjoy it. That's gotta be pretty tough though, not being able to really enjoy the game since all you're doing is watching people come and go off the bench and all that.. I think I'd get distracted all the time!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohiofan Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 That's gotta be pretty tough though, not being able to really enjoy the game since all you're doing is watching people come and go off the bench and all that.. I think I'd get distracted all the time!! I have to agree...I KNOW I would get distracted! Sounds like a pretty cool part-time job though. That was a nice find chz...I enjoyed the article. Told me some things I didn't know or wasn't aware of. Always a good thing. :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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