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- Sep 27, 2005
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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.
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.