Happiness Survey

Executive Summary for the second Happiness Survey of 2021-22 (for your eyes only)

The trade deadline is coming up in less than a week. The Capitals roster may change soon, so this is our last chance to measure them using the most important statistic of all: our feelings.

Here now is the executive summary for the second happiness survey of the season. About 2,300 respondents scored each Capitals player from 1 to 5, based on how happy the respondent is that the player is on the team.

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By Peter Hassett 4 months ago

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Please take our new Caps players happiness survey

Hello. The trade deadline is coming up in like a week, so maybe this is our last chance to take stock of the Washington Capitals before they change, whether that change is aggressive or futile or whatever.

Here comes the happiness survey for 2022, financial quarter 2.

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By Peter Hassett 4 months ago

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Executive Summary for the first Happiness Survey of 2021-22 (Confidential)

We are now twenty games into the 2021-22 season, so it’s time for us to see where we stand. There will be a bunch of nerdy analysis stuff coming up, but I want to start with the most important dimension of Capitals hockey: feelings.

Here now is the executive summary for the first happiness survey of the season. About two thousand respondents scored each Capitals player from 1 to 5, with five meaning that the respondent is very happy that the player is on the team. The results may shock you.

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By Peter Hassett 7 months ago

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How happy you are about the Caps: End-of-season Executive Summary

I now call to order this special meeting of the board of directors. Please mute your mic when not speaking as we can all hear you cracking open a startling amount of Bud Limes during the course of this call.

After Ian reads the minutes, I will share an Executive Summary of our end-of-year happiness survey. There were some very surprising results this time around, calling into question the very nature of happiness from an ontological perspective.

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By Peter Hassett 1 year ago

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How happy y’all are about every Caps player: a Highly Confidential Executive Summary

Ian and I had an interesting conversation earlier this week. We speculated about how fan opinions of Evgeny Kuznetsov might have changed since the Cup win. We wondered if a similar effect on Ilya Samsonov might be in play. That, plus all the new blood putting up big performances while the Russian Four are out, prompted us to bring the question directly to you. On Wednesday, we put out a short survey. Each player had a scale from 1 to 5 and were asked how happy they were that each player is on the team. What “happy” means was entirely up to you.

We got more than 4,000 responses. We shared a sneak peek with our patrons, but here now is my Totally Formal Executive Summary. This document is coded red and is for your eyes only.

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By Peter Hassett 1 year ago

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