me2
Go ahead foot
i read that earlier today and i think he's just hanging out with the wrong people if they scream at him GREGORY CAMPBELL PLAYED BADLY
he misses the point so badly and its infuriating because he's a smart person. he's creating a false dichotomy of people that either like stats BUT HATE ALL HOCKEY and [everyone else]. its insane. people get into stats because they like hockey, they like watching the games and they want to understand it better. painting a massive group of people with a brush of boring stats nerds is a ****** misrepresentation
on top of all of this, he doesnt make any new points. this is the confession of a lot of fans. "i like advanced stats but i like hockey too" wow, good work guy
I don't know, advanced stats do take a bit of the romance out of it, evaluating hockey going from a romantic, if flawed, art to cold science. He's right in some ways, sometimes you need to expose false ideas, sometimes you just have to let the deluded have their delusions.