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Originally Posted by theinfinitejar
You can do all the work you want, but this metric is useless from the word go.
To win hockey games you need score more goals than the other guys, and the best way to do that is to have the puck more than they do. So if you have a metric where "positive" events can only happen when the other team has the puck, how can it possibly be useful at predicting success?
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...because what you do when you don't have the puck is just as important or more than what you do with the puck. How many teams with bottom 10 defense win cups?