What I continue to see is that these many measures were founded by people with no math knowledge or understanding of advanced statistics (no #### Sherlock). Many of these goofy numbers were put together by, not surprisingly, Oiler fans trying to explain why their team was better than it produced against the others in the NHL. That's using statistics to try and explain away an outcome rather than gain greater insight into the events themselves (poor method). Also, picks two loosely related statistics out of the air, slamming them together, and saying it is a measure of something else, completely unrelated and not tracked. I mean, luck is now just the difference between having a positive or negative result versus the mean? I thought luck was an event where a completely unexplainable event took place, like a puck bouncing off a stanchion and going into the net, or a defense man inadvertently shooting or directing the puck into his own net. Those are actual events that can be tracked and quantified. That is an actual statistic. Claiming luck is having a high comparative shooting percentage is, I don't know what, but it isn't a statistic, and it doesn't makes much sense unless you fall into the logic trap dreamed up in the original scenario.
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