The Hockey Brain
The roadmap

From fan to AI-augmented analyst.

Three stages, each with a clear next step. Work through them in order — or jump to the one that matches where you are today.

  1. 1
    Beginner

    Read the game with data

    • Metric literacy: xG, Corsi, Fenwick, PDO
    • Understand where hockey data comes from
    • Learn to ask a precise, answerable question
  2. 2
    Builder

    Build your own stack

    • Ingest a real data source on a schedule
    • Model raw events into metrics like xG
    • Serve answers from a notebook or dashboard
  3. 3
    AI-augmented

    Analyze like a department

    • Point Claude at your own gold tables
    • Turn repeated playbooks into reusable skills
    • Ship decisions and stories, not just charts

Ready to start? Begin with the fundamentals, then build your first pipeline.

FoundationsBuild a data stack