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Originally Posted by Tinordi
The alternative to "advanced stats" are just commentators spouting off with their untethered opinions. A decade ago some sports columnist would have wrote a Giordano and Brodie are overrated without using more in-depth stats. Would you have preferred those articles? At least now people are constructing arguments based on more than a feeling.
If you don't like the conclusions drawn using stats then draw up your own conclusions and reasoning, its never been easier.
But can we all stop the incessant whining about stats? This type of analysis is simply NOT going away. Better get used to it.
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You just said it in a nutshell. Advanced stats are not telling us anything we didn't already know. If they didn't exist you are correct in that media would be saying the Flames were playing over their heads and Brodie and Giordano are overrated. So why should it matter that some math nerd is telling us the same?
Have we really got to the point in society that we need metrics to tell us the sky is blue or that the Oilers are a bad hockey team? Really I simply haven't seen much to date with advanced stats that have a lot of value to fans that watch a lot of hockey. The only major value I see in them is for casual fans or people that don't follow the sport to be able to evaluate and somewhat draw conclusions.