Delete99991
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- May 9, 2013
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Oh of course it's flawed. It's hockey. All stats are flawed. One could make the same argument about Corsi (to far greater effect, in my opinion).
But what we know for sure is that removing special teams, if everyone on a team finishes +12 for the year, the team will have a positive goal differential of something like +36 to +48. No room for argument.
Further, if we grant that goal differential is a "bottom line stat" in terms of Wins and Losses, we also know that Hagg is either a) better than the median of his competiton, b) lucky, or c) both, given that he's got the highest +/- on the team and has played mainly with the human timebomb known as A-Mac.
So it's not nothing. That smug HF hockey fan thing of "pfft, +/-" (not that you've taken that attitude in this discussion FlyGuy - you haven't - but others do) is silly when those same people are so often devotees of Corsi and the like.
But what we know for sure is that removing special teams, if everyone on a team finishes +12 for the year, the team will have a positive goal differential of something like +36 to +48. No room for argument.
Further, if we grant that goal differential is a "bottom line stat" in terms of Wins and Losses, we also know that Hagg is either a) better than the median of his competiton, b) lucky, or c) both, given that he's got the highest +/- on the team and has played mainly with the human timebomb known as A-Mac.
So it's not nothing. That smug HF hockey fan thing of "pfft, +/-" (not that you've taken that attitude in this discussion FlyGuy - you haven't - but others do) is silly when those same people are so often devotees of Corsi and the like.