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Originally Posted by AC
No my point was that neither measure is really telling you an accurate story. Critics would like the Flames more if we were scoring less often and causing more rebounds, just seems funny.
Instead the storylines should be about if/how the Flames are generating higher probability scoring chances, while limiting the other teams'.
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Which makes the entire premise of this stuff mind bogglingly dumb.
I get that if the Flames were getting out shot and out chanced by a bunch regularly (like TO last year) then it would make sense that most would expect the team to fall back...but you don't need some goofy stat to tell you that, you only need common sense and a basic understanding of how the game works.
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Originally Posted by Resolute14
Right now, we have a lot of rookies scoring a lot of points - the Flames lead the league in that regard by a ridiculous margin. There is no reason why people on the outside would not expect that the Flames will indeed regress toward the mean. And there is no reason why Flames fans should be upset by this. Otherwise, you all might as well get mad at yourselves and each other for predicting we'd finish near the bottom of the standings.
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All true but isn't it the case that Calgary has started more rookies than most if not all teams? I mean no one expected the Jooris revelation, but the others were expected to at least contribute somewhat....which in turn would have had the Flames leading among rookie scoring overall, which they are. Or am I missing something here? (entirely possible)