More strawmen:
"Advanced stats are only corsi and it is ridiculous to build a team based on corsi you build it based on skill."
Advanced stats by my understanding is to take a quantitative view of teams and players using the best available data as a way to gauge your interpretations of players. If you used advanced stats you would have likely found that trading for Kotalik would have been a very bad idea. Or that the 09-12 Flames were not a good team and were way more than a piece or two away from the playoffs.
Nobody is saying put together the team with the best corsi players. That's a stupid strawman effort to try to belittle the use of stats. What people are saying is that going by scouting of "skill" alone is not a good idea and that you should weigh statistical analyses of players with your qualitative assessments of them. Should the Leafs had done that with Clarkson for example they wouldn't have backed the truck up for him.
We're getting the point that unless you start doing your statistical due dilligence on players and teams as a GM you'll be eaten by the GMs who are doing it. That was my basis for starting this whole conversation.
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