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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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Not to disagree with you, because i dont, but its not teams doing this stuff to "cook the books" but moreso the different people in different cities applying a general rule to varied occurences.......all under the same umbrella knows as NHL off-ice officials.
Shot totals dont vary to wildly around the NHL (last time i was in a discussion about this) because they are pretty much black and white.
That being said, things like hits have no such guidelines and it was never more appaent than a few years back when the Florida Panthers led the league in hitting every single year for a while. What they defined as a "hit" others could (and did) brush off as merely an engagement of two bodies in a battle for a puck (as an example) or positioning in front of the net...things like that. It was amazing what kind of hit totals Fla experienced on the road versus what they were awarded at home.
So yes...most "advanced" stats are no more than "different" stats than traditional ones and are often flawed based on local bias/interpretation.