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Originally Posted by Gaudfather
A big issue with advanced stats - the "garbage in - garbage out" factor.
Here is a quote from Brad Treliving today: "That’s a challenge in our sport - to get real data. Meaningful data."
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We also have to remember that the stats need to be interpreted against everything else we know about a team's or player's current sitution and not all of that can be put in meaningful statistical form.
I think what irritates some people about articles like this is that they only quote a couple of stats as if they were peering beyond appearances to the real truth. You'd have to watch a team carefully and see what those stats mean for that team. Sometimes a save percentage is unsustainable, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes +/- tells you about a player, sometimes it doesn't. That doesn't change when you use more complicated (and more vague) data.