Free Tools
Here is a collection of dashboards that have either been created when writing articles for the website, developing new metrics in the cards, or just out of curiosity. These are free to all, and can be accessed by clicking the link button below each. You will be able to use them immediately, although because they are available to the public, there may be multiple people using them at the same time. In that case, simply create a copy of the spreadsheet and proceed there without interruptions.
Battle Grid
With the Battle Grid, you can visualize what we have defined as the “High-Contact Areas”. These are locations or situations in the game that either imply direct contact with an opposing player or are usually hotly contested to gain possession of the puck. This tool and its Play Through Contact metric let you identify players that can shoulder heavy physicality and come out on the other side having improved their team’s position in the game.
Consistency Spread
This dashboard employs integral calculus to capture player consistency by measuring the relative occurrence of great and poor outings. It allows users to visualize the quality of a specific skater’s spread of games by comparing how often their performance level exceeds what is expected given their overall strength as the season progresses.
Offensive Puck-Movement Profile
These charts descend from the article embedded below and look to capture the different ways in which a player contributes to their team’s passing routes. This allows us to identify the roles they carve for themselves in their respective systems and measure how important they tend to be for their teammates’ offence.
This article covers the entire creation process, but if you’re solely interested in the chart’s visual components and what they represent, those are explained with detail & examples in the second last section.
SPAR Distribution Visualizer
Using this tool you can easily visualize how player seasons have fared within their cohorts. How has Matthew Schaefer’s rookie season looked compared to other young defencemen in this era? Which goalies are leading this spike in young netminders dominating the field in 2025-26? Where does Michael Amadio’s defensive performance rank relative to other Ottawa forwards in recent years? These are the types of answers you can easily answer with the SPAR Distribution Visualizer.
Puckémon Cards
There may not be a full-fledged article for this one, but it’s more of a fun & unserious concept that pays homage to one of the first dashboards that made me dive deeper into hockey analytics. The idea is pretty straight-forward: what team would a specific NHLer have if they were a Pokémon trainer? And then the inverse: what would the starting lineup look like for a given Pokémon?