Two main reasons why advanced stats are garbage.
1) Possession stats are measured by shot attempts rather than possession time. So if the coyotes skate up the ice, fire the puck from the blue line, two feet wide of the net and then Brodie and Giordano control the play for most of the shift, looking for a good play and get no shot off, advanced stats say that the coyotes have better possession numbers.
2) PDO says literally nothing about anything and is a poor predictor of how a team will fare. "The Flames have the same PDO numbers as the top teams from last year right now, we know they're not a good team so those PDO numbers are definitely going to go down because they're not the Bruins or Penguins." Well surprise surprise, the Flames are top 5 in the West right now and have top 5 PDO.
Anybody who watches the games can tell you that the Flames are actually very good at controlling the play. No amount of shots off the glass or blocked shots by the opponents is going to prove otherwise.
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