HotToddy75
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- Jun 13, 2011
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Thank you for putting into words what I see as common sense yet would never bother to even attempt to explain.
All stats are weak without context. Your methodology applies context to statics.
Maybe you have figured a way to add in quality of competition as well? Giving up a break away goal to Kane is significantly different than Horcoff.
Those charts IMO are only marginally better than plus minus if you didn't watch those games to add context. Even applying where shots are taken from only improves the picture generally speaking but at the same time could be completely misleading.
One element that is impossible to define is 'being in the right place for the wrong reason'. In other words, sometimes a player benefits from being unpredictable, or getting lucky being in the right place for the wrong reasons. For goalies and dmen its a killer.