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Old 08-20-2014, 03:21 PM   #79
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So would I, but I'm not at all convinced that the bloggers I am most familiar with have enough of a clear understanding of how to do advanced statistics to make them altogether useful. I imagine that I could read a book or take a basic introductory course and produce the same sorts of analyses. But I am also fairly confident that this limited "training" would no doubt fail at various points in my amateur attempts to measure, apply, and interpret data.
David Staples is the worst offender out there...

1. Super fan boy...check
2. Creating his own "data set" based on how he perceives scoring chances...check
3. Only watches Oiler games for his data set and not Det vs Fla on a monday night...check
4. Has a twitter handle and blog...check
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