Guffman
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- Apr 7, 2016
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It's honestly embarrassing how these so-called "advanced stats" don't mirror reality.
I was just looking at an article that showed average goal differential to expected goal differential. For 10 teams, the difference was over 0.5 goals/game. What a joke.
Who the heck came up with this garbage? If you're going to push this type of garbage onto us, why not actually factor in the quality of the players (the shooter and the goalie) to give a more accurate tabulation on what the expected goal should be on that particular shot as opposed to being lazy and just applying some non-applicable league-wide average to it?
If you don't have sufficient data on the players involved, how is it more appropriate to assume that the players are league average players?
I was just looking at an article that showed average goal differential to expected goal differential. For 10 teams, the difference was over 0.5 goals/game. What a joke.
Who the heck came up with this garbage? If you're going to push this type of garbage onto us, why not actually factor in the quality of the players (the shooter and the goalie) to give a more accurate tabulation on what the expected goal should be on that particular shot as opposed to being lazy and just applying some non-applicable league-wide average to it?
If you don't have sufficient data on the players involved, how is it more appropriate to assume that the players are league average players?