billingtons ghost
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- Nov 29, 2010
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Because when a guy accumulates points due to ridiculous anomalies, he’s not going to sustain that production.
Looking at underlying numbers and play outside of pure points tells you the true value of a player. When a player’s numbers indicates his production is going to collapse in the near, that’s a big problem.
Also, when a team is expected to allow more goals than they’re going to score with a certain player on the ice, that player is not good.
Or you know, as in most cases with 'data' - stats have to be taken in context, and don't represent a complete picture - especially when they are the remedial crap that some feed off of in here and like to regurgitate - especially in tiny sample sets like over a certain number of games in an abbreviated season.
MAYBE, it's just all garbage-in, garbage-out, and the analysis just sucks.