Webinar: Working with ice hockey stats & stat rules

College Sports Communicators

On-Demand College Sports Communicators Webinar Working with ice hockey statistics & stat rules Learning more about the sport of basketball and producing accurate statistics. This webinar, held Jan. 24, 2024 was our fifth in the 2023-24 CSC statistics/stat rules webinar series. Generating consistent statistics and consistent stat reporting are essential duties of each athletic communications department. Presenters in this ice hockey webinar familiarized CSC members with a review of ice hockey rules - for both men and women's hockey - as they apply to statistics for 2023-24 and how to utilize proper scoring techniques to register accurate statistics. Please note: This was NOT a training session on "how-to" work with Genius/NCAA Live Stats or Presto stats; rather, it was held to give athletic communicators and statisticians a basic understanding of the rules of the games and an understanding on how to score ice hockey plays and staff contests. The discussion focused on: • best practices for pregame preparation for statistics, setting up stat personnel and job duties of that personnel, and how to effectively work with your opponent SID; setting up rosters, line charts (NCAA only); in-game statistical how-to's; post-game reporting; working with your opponents’ athletic communications sport contact(s) • the use of proper in-game scoring techniques to register accurate statistics, including: entering starters; what sources to use if unsure about a play; recording basic statistics • a review of stat definitions (icing, offsides, shots vs. shots on goal, assists, power plays, penalty types) • discussion of difficult/unusual plays, ways to troubleshoot them and the way to accurate stat them during the game • using assist trackers (use an extra person or use the video stream if you didn’t see it live) • wrapping up the game - what are the best practices in checking final stats and working with your fellow SIDs post-match Panelists • Elisa Mitton – University of Windsor Sports Information Coordinator & Home Event Manager • Tim Volkmann – Rochester Institute of Technology Director of Athletic Communications • Earl Zukerman – McGill University Communications Officer • Moderator: Jenna Jorgensen, Stillwater (Minn.) Area Public Schools Communications and Public Relations Coordinator / former Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) Assistant Commissioner