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Originally Posted by _Q_
This is why I hate advanced stats. Most of the time it's just cherry picking and convoluting numbers to make up whatever narrative you please and to make yourself seem smarter than you are.
"Yeah sure the Flames are off to a hot start, but if you add the goals up, multiple them by shot attempts, divide by quality of opposition and subtract the goalies age, the Flames are actually way behind the rest of the league. This team is not good, my stats prove that. I made a chart about it too "
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Not really, there's analysis done/being done on which stats are most predictive.
Predictive stats, of course, are better than non-predictive stats.