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Are WAR models good for anyone?
It's the type of model that had guys like Radek Faksa as the best players in the leagye a few years ago.
Are WAR models good for anyone?
Before spewing stuff, you might want to fact check yourself. Faksa has never finished top 100 in WAR on a given season with Evolving-Hockey's model, which is different but not that much from the one Corsica used, IIRC.It's the type of model that had guys like Radek Faksa as the best players in the leagye a few years ago.
Before spewing stuff, you might want to fact check yourself. Faksa has never finished top 100 in WAR on a given season with Evolving-Hockey's model, which is different but not that much from the one Corsica used, IIRC.
His best season in total WAR (17-18), he finished 112th; in WAR/60 he was 81st amongst players with >1000 minutes played.
WAR has issues with d-men for sure, but for forward it does a pretty decent job even when there are some results sometimes that go against the general public's preconceived notions. This might be an invitation to investigate more and maybe reconsider how we evaluate players.
Also, taking where/how a player ranks at face value on different metrics, without considering that, like all statistics, there are confidence interval, is dumb.