Crosbyfan
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- Nov 27, 2003
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La-La-Laprise said:LOL Crosbyfan....what do stats prove???
If Stats mean everything than why are their hundreds of scouts around the world? Shoudlnt the player with the best +/- be picked #1 overall??
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NO
+/- are just facts. They can and should be explained. You can judge a lot by the explanations given. I keep hearing that +/- sucks because player X has a worse +/- than player Y even though X is much better. Often (not always) it is followed
by some reasonably plausible reason why X's +/- is worse than Y's and how if things were more equal X's +/- would be much better than Y's. They don't realize they have just argued that +/- is useful.
Pick any team in the bottom 20% of any league. The worst +/- on the team probably (predictably) belongs to one of their top 2 defenceman. You can't just line them up and pick players by +/-.