Steve Simmons: "Why hockey's trendy advanced stats are a numbers game"

[Bear of Bad News]

Simmons' take, which I haven't seen posted here yet:
http://www.lfpress.com/2014/05/20/why-hockeys-trendy-advanced-stats-are-a-numbers-game

My three biggest critiques of the article - (1) he seems to have an incomplete view of what actually constitutes "trendy advanced stats", (2) he seems to confuse anecdotes with data, and (3) particularly at the end of his article, he assumes that there's no possible way that analytics could ever improve from where they are today (or rather, from where he thinks they are today).

He also doesn't seem to realize that, over a single same, "sample size" is a valid point (and not a punchline, as he uses it in the article). It suggests to me that he doesn't understand what analytics are trying to do.

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[Islander102]

(4) It was written by Steve Simmons.

 

[Bear of Bad News]

Well, there's that.

 

[soireeculturelle]

these types of points of view are totally understandable.

1) kid struggles with math in elementary school
2) kid continues to struggle with math in high school. thinks he just cant do math
3) young man goes to university, goes for a journalism major to never do math again
...
4) profits.