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Originally Posted by 19Yzerman19
Well, there's the management team of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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I did say usually to leave room for arguing about quality shots, scoring chances and obviously the biggest difference being goalies.
I'm in the middle where I do think there's room for advanced stats, but I don't think you can discount watching players either. I realize there can be bias in watching players but you can still put heavy weight on it.
But when someone starts using Corsi as more than just support it's important to realize exactly what the data means and how to actually use it. Going by On-Ice Corsi this year Patrick Maroon is better than any forward on the Flames. Trying to fix that by going with Relative Corsi and you're left with Backlund being better than anyone on the Ducks. You can't easily compare Corsi across teams that's for sure. You may be able to use them to compare teammates, but then Hudler has a lower Corsi than Galiardi, and Monahan has one of the worst Corsi numbers.
Same with Fenwick % and the like, Team A has more shots than Team B with more offensive starts. They have more possession then and are therefore the better team. That's completely disregarding goalies though, if Team B has a 10M goalie stopping everything and Team A has a sieve it's not going to be an unexplained anomaly if Team B ends up above Team A in the standings.