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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Stat tracking works well in baseball because baseball is a very linear game, you could argue it works well in football, because football is a pretty linear game.
Hockey has a massive degree of randomness and differences from team to team and player to player that makes it impossible to use stats as your primary indicator that a team is successful or not or over achieving.
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Hockey stats could be more likened to stats used in fast, flowing sports. In those sports, you do not see this advanced stats phenomenon in the media/fanbases. Maybe behind the scences in each team's analytics. But not to this extent.
In Soccer, you count possession, shots (on/off target) as basic, then time in zones of the field, ball touches/heatmaps, etc. as more complex.
In Australian Rules football, kicks, tackles, goals, etc. are tracked, and a stat tracked closely and valued is "disposals" as in a movement of the ball that does not result in a turnover.
Yet to see a tonne of advanced stats, as this is a very north american approach to covering a sport, to be so stats intensive. Comes from the major sports being linear as Captain Crunch states.