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Originally Posted by New Era
It is a well known, and long standing joke around the league, that a lot of stats are interpreted differently from arena to arena. That's all that needs to be said on the subject, because everyone in the game knows that certain teams cook the books. No attempt to discredit, the statisticians do it themselves. I am very interested to know how you know shots are meticulously tracked? Unless you are watching every game and are auditing the shot trackers you have no idea how accurate they are. Again, Boston is infamous for pumping up the shots for. Other buildings are generous in the hits department while others hardly give any. It is interpretation of what constitutes a given stat that is sorely lacking and which brings all of these measures into question. But I'm not changing your mind, so we'll leave it at that.
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If what you are saying regarding Boston is true, then wouldn't there be a bigger variation in their home and road Fenwick/Corsi numbers relative to other teams? If their home numbers were getting pumped up by biased statisticians then it would follow that their road numbers should dip more than with other teams, would it not? Effectively, their home ranking would be artificially high and their road ranking would be more in line with their actual play.
However, looking at the numbers over the last 5 seasons it's pretty clear that that's not the case, as in each of those years their rankings at home and on the road are virtually identical to each other. That largest gap is a difference of 3 positions (3rd at home and 6th on the road in 09-10) and in 2 of the 5 seasons their road ranking was actually higher than their home one. So I don't really see any evidence of their home numbers being inflated to any degree that would invalidate the numbers like you seem to be suggesting.