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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
No one is disputing that. They have some value and are obviously better than the basic stats.
But most hockey people would say that the value of stats just isn't anywhere near the value of having a good hockey mind watch a game and evaluate the players. Advanced stats will never replace scouting. Not even close. Some people want it to and think it will or already has. It won't.
Advanced stats are not a substitute for watching a player play multiple times. If you're good at evaluating hockey talent then watching the player will give you so much more than advanced stats ever could.
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Therein lies your answer why. What kind of background do they have?
As the game evolves, management types will to and the "hockey" people will be phased out just as they have been doing in baseball and are starting to do in basketball. Hockey metrics aren't quite there yet, but to say that they will never be is naive.