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Originally Posted by Ashasx
That is worrisome. Advanced stats aren't everything, but they are extremely useful if used in context.
Had the Leafs employed their use when deciding what to do with Bozak/Grabovski, they would have seen that Grabovski was the much better player.
I guess that's bad news for Backlund as well.
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Burke went to the MIT Sloan Sports Conference to more or less slander the use of them. He said something like "advanced stats are like lamp posts for a drunk, useful for support but not for illumination" and that "numbers are overrated...it's an eyeball business" so no real surprise. This is at the most prestigious sporting statistics conference in NA, where each sports' best statistical minds present their research, ideas and stories.