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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
But why bother? While blocking shots is a skill, it's irrelevant when determining who controlled the play. I'm confused as to it's relevance. Does it correlate with winning better?
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Fenwick just thinks that Corsi is meant to be a proxy for scoring chances, not play control per se. This is why he omits blocked shots.
My argument is basically: 1. The whole (or perhaps best) use of Corsi is to have objective figures that can be used as a proxy for scoring chances (what else are you using it for?).
2. A shot that is blocked is either a) not a scoring chance at all, or b) on average from a worse scoring area than shots/posts/missed shots.
He wrote that in 2007, and I feel like 7 years later there are a lot more blocked shots, even those from the slot, so I'm not sure how useful argument 2 is anymore.