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Old 08-24-2013, 02:21 AM   #19
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Originally Posted by Textcritic View Post
Not really even that. There is WAAAAY more work to be done before this analysis may be considered useful.
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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