Armchair Hockey Scout

Ask the book

2026-27 edition Ask a direct question about this edition of the book — who, how many, how common, which group more — and it is answered with a table computed on this page from the edition’s index: the season line, height and age, the on-ice percentiles, the grades and the traits read out of every report. Ask for a view on named players — what a comparison comes down to, what makes a man — and you get the book’s reading of their own pages, and only those. The model turns your question into a query and phrases the result, or reads the pages it is handed; it never originates a figure, and an answer carrying a figure that is on neither the table nor the pages is withheld. It does not forecast, and it says so when a question is outside what the book holds.

Tables are computed on this page from the 2026-27 edition’s index; readings rest on the players’ own pages; the model never counts. Twenty questions an hour.

2026-27 edition

Tonight

The card, and the workflow for making a call on each game. The season runs 2026-09-29 to 2027-04-10 — 1344 games.

How the model did last season: over 1,312 games in 2025-26 it was 0.0006 of Brier a game ahead of the home-ice rule, 0.3 standard errors, which one season cannot tell from nothing. Five closed seasons can: over 6,519 games the model's Brier is 0.2425 against the rule's 0.2487. The record.