Speaking of strawmen Tinordi, where did I say "advanced stats are only corsi"? I gave Corsi and Fenwick as examples, which should have been obvious by my saying "for example".
So please, don't be the pot calling the kettle black.
Also, funny you should mention that fancystats would tell us that trading for Kotalik was a bad idea.
We knew that from day one, without the stats. Likewise, one did not need fancystats to realize Toronto was likely to regret that deal.
Don't get me wrong, I like several of the fancystats. It's nice to be able to add quantifiable data to arguments. But my view remains that spreadsheets have not yet surpassed direct observation. One does not need a spreadsheet to tell us that Mark Giordano is our best defenceman. The spreadsheet helps, but it still isn't telling us anything we didn't already know through simply by watching.