hoss75
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Anyone use nhlscrapr that wouldn't mind sending some sample code my way to parse some individual team/player stats? This is just to get started, I don't want you to give away all your secret sauce.
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Data is subjective?there is a flaw to their plan
who is the one collecting the data and releasing it?
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Data is often subjective. For me this is more about fancy stat people trying to sell snow to Canadians in December
I don't think that this is what the poster intended, but many of the data elements in the NHL's files are subjective - just the simple concept of "shot on goal" has an interpretive effort (the goaltender made the save, but if he'd missed it, it would have been near the post - would it have gone wide or gone into the net?).
The "fancy stat people trying to sell snow to Canadians in December" sounds like someone trying to fit a square meme into a round hole. It doesn't fit the conversation at all, and it seems like a weird (and confusing) cheap shot at "fancy stat people".
Yeah, but hasn't that already been addressed in the arena adjustment techniques?Back to this - I was headed to hockey earlier, and since I'm the goalie, I can't be late.
One particular place where the subjectivity is an issue is the fact that different people make the calls in different arenas. If one arena's scorer has a different opinion on borderline SOG caes than another arena's scorer, the home teams in those rinks' statistics are going to be disproportionally affected.
This is particularly pervasive in (for instance) the "hits" category, where the same teams always have multiple players near the top of the leaderboards.