blocked shots

[topepo]

Just a clarification question, since the blocked shot raw data is a pain.

For blocked shots, in the raw data, the event seems to refer to the team that is blocking (as opposed to the shooter's team).

For the data produced by load_pbp(), do we need to adjust the coordinates based on this? If fixed_x and fixed_y are going left to right for the other shot types, do we need to do the same for blocked shotes?

Also, is the event team still referring to the blocking player's team?

[danmorse314]

For blocked shots, all data pulled using hockeyR is set up as follows:

event_team & event_team_abbr: shooting team
fixed_x and fixed_y: location of the block, with the home team always shooting to the right

There shouldn't be any adjusting needed, main note is that the location refers to where it was blocked rather than where the shot was taken from.