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Originally Posted by edslunch
NHL-E is based on ESP/G which is a reasonable indicator of a players true offensive impact, so you're basically saying rank players by ESP/G factoring in differences between leagues (something NHL-E is explicitly designed to do). Apart from dropping all defence men out of the first round I would shocked if this didn't produce good results, writ large.
Where I have a problem is when posters use this writ small as an absolute test for an individual players potential early in their development.
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Ok but I would ask, who in this thread is saying that certain prospects are busts using NHL-e? Backcheck has questioned Sieloff, I'm cool on Jankowski but I don't think anyone is saying, well their NHL-e is crap in their draft +1 year therefore they're going to bust. I think people are saying that they have big questions around them. That should be totally fine.
Where some posters have gone off the deep end is by saying that all statistical analysis is "junk" because it raises questions about certain prospects.