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I was looking at this on the NHL website: https://www.nhl.com/gamecenter/mtl-vs-n ... _tab=plays

.. and realized the sim does not tell us where a player is within a zone when they pass, score take a hit etc. Is this something to get in the future - or is it possible the sim does keep track of this and just needs to be added to output? And then coders could decipher it and be able to make a box score like in the link.

Hi.

This data is not in the game engine. I could know only the players who has the puck.

It's possible to create this data even though it's not actually in the Simulation. I played around with it a long time ago and got it working really well where I could put up shot-charts and other stuff to make the game reports look at lot sexier. It also would provide a way to give each team more of an "identity" in that teams built on grit would be taking more shots from around the net and so on.

What I based this on was I downloaded all the data from nhl.com from the past 15 or so seasons which provided me with tons of data for the habits of each player and each position. Then it's a fairly simple process of creating x-y co-ordinates and a script. So for Patric Hornqvist, most of his shots would come from around the crease while a player like Ovechkin would shoot mostly from the top of the circles, all based on their actual real life style of play.

Same would then be done for hits and so on.

It takes quite a bit of work to get it done, but it definitely helps give the games more life and would make any league's website really stand out from the rest.


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Hi

Sadly, I'm unable to add this data. This concept simply doesn't exist in the engine.
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I have updated everyone to 125 Message. It should fix your problem. Otherwise, I can wipe your Output also.

Thanks a lot Simon! Worked like a charm.

As for the data, I know it's not in the engine. I was just letting Kitsune know that it can be done externally and presented on a website as part of a custom boxscore. One could potentially use such data to create a graphic "simulation" of the simulation if one wanted to go completely bananas with it.