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Originally Posted by polak
Which is useless for a real world use. No organization would use a coefficent of correlation that low for any sort of prediction.
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True, but this isn't real world. We constantly are looking for ways to simplify an incredibly complex mix of tangible and intangible parameters within the game. Therefore
anything that correlates with winning is useful. That R^2 value simply means, while useful, it only paints part of the picture. Unfortunately, Colorado and Toronto are the two examples constantly thrown out to rebut that argument. I'm going to find examples of successful teams that had consecutive sub 50% corsi.
Here we go
Pittsburgh:
Year corsi%5v5 pts
06/07 46.2% 105
07/08 45.5% 102
08/09 48.1% 99
Pretty sure there's two consecutive Stanley Cup appearances there along with a Cup.