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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Because every single win the Flames achieve produces a new round of crying and whining from the "Corsi is god" crowd? I like analytics. I like the value Corsi and the like offers, but some of you advanced stat geeks are hilarious in how you take exceptions so personally. And some of you have no sense of proportion.
You guys were truly offended by the Avalanche last year, and you are truly upset about the Flames this year. Instead of just pointing out that exceptions exist and that the general goal should be to be improving in terms of possession, all we hear is whining and crying about how lucky the Flames are. All you do with that is drive people away from your arguments. Or, in Lambert's case, drive the foolish masses to Yahoo's website.
I've said this before, but "luck" (in this context) to an analytics guy is the same thing as "god" to mankind. It is nothing more than an invention used to offer an easy explanation to what you don't yet understand.
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Except we ended up being right about the Avalanche, and most of us realize what the definition of an adequate sample size is.