@article{Wagner_Barr_Spada_Joslin_Sommers_2021, place={Houston, U.S.}, title={Simeon Poisson and the Stanley Cup Finals}, volume={9}, url={https://www.jsr.org/index.php/path/article/view/1078}, DOI={10.47611/jsr.v9i1.1078}, abstractNote={<p>The National Hockey League is a professional ice hockey league in North America currently comprised of 31 teams.&nbsp; Their seasons culminate with the Stanley Cup Playoffs.&nbsp; The top sixteen teams (eight in each conference) qualify for the playoffs.&nbsp; The conference champions face off in the final round, known as the Stanley Cup Finals.&nbsp; The authors show that goals scored per game in the Stanley Cup Finals follow a Poisson distribution.&nbsp; Using the results of all 438 Stanley Cup Final games played since 1939 (when the Finals became a best-of-seven series), chi-squared goodness-of-fit tests show that the observed distribution of goals scored per game by series winners, series losers, and game losers closely approximate a Poisson theoretical model.&nbsp; The combined number of goals scored by both finalists and goals scored by game winners do not</p>}, number={1}, journal={Journal of Student Research}, author={Wagner, Cate and Barr, Erica and Spada, Joseph and Joslin, Cole and Sommers, Paul M.}, year={2021}, month={Jan.} }