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Originally Posted by GioforPM
This. They are useful for a team that says "Hey - we are losing. What can we improve on?" They are not useful to say "Hey - we are losing. How can we say we are doing well anyway".
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Is also useful though to look behind the results. The best team in the league will lose more than 30% if their games in a season. If you only look at score and won/lost you can't necessarily see if the fundamentals are there. Shot totals and such will help you understand if you at least controlled what you could. If the fundamentals are strong, you'll win more often than lose.
I wish we'd stop calling them "advanced stats" too. They're just stats. Really, +/- is just as advanced as corsi or Fenwick. Maybe "non-traditional" stats it my personal favourite: "stats". Each one is just another tool adding a different layer of context.