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Research

2026

  1. NBA All-Time Most Valuable Assets

    A ranking of fifty NBA players, each at one season, by awards and records to that point against his era, age at the end of that season, years of prime remaining under team control, and positional scarcity.

  2. NFL All-Time Most Valuable Assets

    A ranking of fifty NFL players, each at one season, by awards and records to that point against his era, age at the end of that season, years of prime remaining under team control, and positional scarcity.

  3. NHL All-Time Most Valuable Assets

    A ranking of fifty players from this site’s NHL All-Time Top 100, each at one season, by production and awards to that point against his era, age at the end of that season, years of prime remaining under club control, and positional scarcity.

  4. Goal involvements per appearance

    Goals plus assists per league appearance in Europe's top five leagues: the last six seasons, the last three, and the three before them.

  5. The 50 Best Footballers Alive

    Fifty players still playing. Ranked on what they produce, who they produce it against, how much their team needs it, and whether the same player exists after a change of club, league, or manager.

  6. NHL All-Time Top 100

    Every placement answers one question: how much did this player win, produce, and dominate, measured against what was possible in his own era? Point Shares, era-adjusted scoring, hardware, the postseason, and All-Star selections — nothing else.

  7. NHL Goaltending Composite Efficacy

    This dataset is a quantitative evaluation of NHL goaltending performance across the 2021–2026 era — regular season and playoffs, single seasons and multi-year aggregates.

  8. NHL Draft Rankings

    Production in context: pre-draft top 20 rankings for the 2020 through 2027 NHL Draft classes, the methodology and league-strength thesis behind them, and a 96-defenseman study of what production actually predicted.

  9. Vision 40

    Forty teams by 2040: the framework, the eight markets, the candidates beyond them, the former brands, and the money.

  10. Most Valuable NHL Players Born After January 1, 2003

    A top-20 ranking by impact, upside, position, and public benchmarks.

  11. Applications of Decoupled Roles in Hockey

    Three applications of skill-role decoupling in NHL play design and roster construction.

2025

  1. How to Grow the NHL

    Why the NHL should position itself as a luxury product rather than an everyman sport.

  2. The Greatest Goal Scorer in NHL History

    Comparing Ovechkin, Bossy, Lemieux, and Gretzky as pure goal scorers.

  3. Team Building and Competitive Windows in the NHL

    How age curve synchronization drives NHL championship windows.

  4. A Better 4 Nations Format

    A structural fix for the NHL's 4 Nations Tournament format.