This post is simply my previous hockey scripts applied to data for the 2019/2020 season, both the Stavanger Oilers player statistics and aggregated statistics for the Norwegian league.
However, after recently reading the book Storytelling with data, I felt obligated to make some minor changes to the graphs from last season.
Stavanger Oilers player statistics
League statistics
Continuing from my previous post, I now focus on detailed match statistics, rather than the available aggregate data. By scraping very detailed data from each match of the 2018/2019 Norwegian hockey season, my goal is to present aggregate data that are not available at the source webpage. The data material is scraped from Hockey live.
The code I started by simply downloading the main HTML file manually from the web browser.
I wanted to visualize the personal statistics for the hockey players of Stavanger Oilers, for the 2018/2019 season.
The data material is scraped from both Elite Prospects and Hockey live (regular season and playoffs), using the R-package rvest, as described in this blog post.
The code Scraping the data from Elite Prospects was straightforward, as it is stored as an HTML table. When you want to scrape a table with rvest, you only need to specify an index integer.