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Originally Posted by JayP
So you think Eberle is honestly a 19% shooter moving forward? That would be by far the highest in the league based on career averages. The only guys in the neighborhood are really Tanguay (who's is high primarily because he only shoots when it's a high quality chance) and Stamkos (who is the best pure scorer in the league), but both are still in the 17-18% range.
No one is manipulating the stats - they're stating the obvious. Players simply don't score goals on 19% of their shots year after year. That doesn't mean Eberle can't be as productive. He'll likely just need to generate more shots & chances than he did in the past to compensate for the drop in shooting percentage.
Just because the stats say something you don't want to hear doesn't mean they're wrong.
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I'm not saying Eberle will sustain his shooting percentage but stats only tell half the story...you also got to watch the player. Eberle doesn't just flick a wrister from the blue-line...he only take shots from high % areas which leads me to believe he'll always have a high shooting percentage...will it be 19%? who knows
I get it that a lot of "stats guys" wanna be the next Bill James and their are definitely some great advance stats out there...but they simply do not tel the whole story
so dismissing a guy simply based on stats is a flawed argument