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Originally Posted by Tinordi
I was waiting for you to chime in with exactly that point. Correlation is not causation.
Here's a timely article discussing just that. That yes, advanced stats are a very good predictor of future results and not simply describing what has recently happened.
http://www.sbnation.com/nhl/2013/10/...nalytics-teams
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What part of that shows teams are a good predictor of future results?
If anything the part about Nashville and Minnesota show the concern of trying to use small sample sizes to prove that things works. Minnesota has spent the last month dropping in the standings and Nashville's been brutal.
I'd also guarantee this is already happening:
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I don't think it'll be long before teams shift to trying to get ahead of the blogosphere and develop unique proprietary methods of understanding and quantifying the game.
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